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Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

Give your child some hands-on experience mixing autumn colors. All you need is a large piece of white paper and tempera paint.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Looking for a fun group activity for kids? Offering writing practice, grammar review, and plenty of hands-on creativity, wacky word art is the way to go.

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

Your child will love making this adorable clover clock that will help him learn how to tell time.

Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Is your child learning to "sound it out"? This game will help him stretch his "decoding" skills so when he runs into new words, he's ready to take them on.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

It's springtime! Time to get outside and dig! Once seeds go into the ground, invite your child to mark the spot in style.

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

Here's a creative preschool activity to make a crown, and build in some phonics practice while you're at it.

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!