Here's a fun activity to get your kindergarten child to listen to beginning alphabet sounds and match them with their letter symbols.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Make a big green alligator with household items and help your kindergartener practices letters and sounds!

In this activity, students will learn about the meaning and information on a police badge. Then they will be able to create their own badge with their own identification.

Bird watching is a fun way for kids to learn about Mother Nature. Make a bird feeder, a bird house, and binoculars and you can attract birds and watch them!

In this activity, your child will reflect on how adults can learn from kids. They will watch a TED Talk presented by a 12-year-old girl about the power of young people’s ideas and teachings, and they will generate some of their own unique ideas.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

Have your kid create a chart of job titles. It's a great way to get them to recognize the people whose efforts benefit the community.

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

Does your child always demand to know why the sky is blue, how the sun moves across the sky, or where wind comes from?

Your kindergartener will improve his fine motor skills and learn beginning baking techniques as he helps you concoct this crumbly apple dessert!

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Pasta makes a good dinner, but it can also be used to teach proper letter formation! In this easy crafts activity, you'll use pasta and glue to form letters.

Deep relaxation is a great way to create the conditions for learning by helping students let go of tension and worry.

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

Your first grader will love making her favorite feline a chase toy out of old fabric scraps, and she will learn beginning sewing basics while she's at it!

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

It's a rare kid who doesn't like a sandbox. Next time you're out digging, build in some earth science, too.

Teaching your child some basic words in Spanish is a breeze at home, with this simple and fun activity that doesn't require special educational materials.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

Craft a winter words alphabet book to celebrate this chilly season in this preschool-kindergarten arts and crafts activity.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

Head out to the driveway, ball in hand, for a bouncing challenge. Then use those results to make a colorful graph that lets your child compare results.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.