Use a basic tape recorder and some favorite books to help your first grader read smoothly--and make someone's day in the process!

For a fun way to encourage your child to read, try this comprehension technique made to satisfy visual learners.

Children read a famous letter from the American Civil War, then write a response, in this thoughtful history activity.

Science isn't ho hum anymore when it involves building catapults to teach your fifth grader about projectile motion.

How would you dry your wet clothes if your dryer didn't work? Find out with this fun experiment!

Celebrate your child's first day of kindergarten with this arts and crafts activity: make a SchultÃte, a cardboard cone filled with candy and other goodies!

Get ready for Halloween with a pumpkin mask made from construction paper!

Full of charm and creative possibilities, this fun hat will be ready for playtime in no time.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Ready for takeoff! Make science fun and teach about levers and fulcrums as your child sends buttons flying.

This game provides your child with the opportunity to create, write, and read numbers.

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Your child can turn cookie dough into a big pile of colorful painted fall leaves ready for eating!

Before you get ready for a delicious scramble or omelet, add a bit of science to your morning routine!

Are you ready to be a detective for science? Then get out your magnifying glass and start studying fingerprints!

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Is your kindergartener having trouble picking outfits for the rapidly cooling weather? This handy dressing wheel makes getting ready a breeze!

Get your sense of humor ready for this fun science experiment that demonstrates the fundamental physics of air pressure.

Get ready to make a dollar...using playing cards! The first player to accumulate the amount of points equal to a dollar wins.

Help your child make an imaginative, inexpensive spaceship from recycled materials. When the spaceship is ready, count backwards from ten and then BLAST-OFF!

Grab some rope and a couple of rafts and you're ready to play Rope Rush, an exciting race game for the pool!

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

This craft activity encourages kindergarteners to explore measuring. Get ready to measure the fun that your child will have creating his own ruler!

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

Create some cards and a factor board and get ready to practice multiplication. This game will help your kid get one step closer to memorizing times tables!

There are hundreds of properties in rocks which you can describe, so get your geology goggles on and get ready to rock your child's science skills.

Get ready for a yummy taste test! Just pour the milk -- and make sure you have some chocolate chip cookies on hand.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.