Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

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

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

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

This science project teaches students about organic farming and the benefits and disadvantages of commercial plant food.

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

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.

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

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

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

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

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

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

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.

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

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

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

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways