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

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.

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

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.

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

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!

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

Encourage your preschooler to learn about the letter "W" by creating a wonderful work of art.

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

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

Learn about how to write a couplet poem in this easy introduction to the classic poetry style.

Help your preschooler learn the Four Questions prior to the big night with a homemade book, complete with words and illustrations!

Help your child learn to read! By making their own book, your child can get creative, and practice ten key sight words at the same time.

Here's a fun activity you can do at the library to help your child learn the sequencing of numbers and letters.

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

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Help your child learn more about the military by having him create a portrait of a soldier and write a short summary about why that soldier is important.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

This year, have your child can help you with your Passover food list. It's great handwriting practice, and she'll learn a lot in the process.

See how to write a love song simply in this kid-focused tutorial. Learn how to write a love song for Valentine's Day and beyond.

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.

Your aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, which are funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.