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

Encourage your writer to uncover their imagination and storytelling skills by authoring their very own book.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

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

Determination can go along way, especially in difficult times. In this home activity, your child will hear the true story of Ivy, the very determined dog, who plays, loves, and runs, just like the other dogs, even though she does not have the ability to

In this activity, your child will explore what it means and how it feels to live in a community.

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

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

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

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

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

Let your second grader channel a famous Dr. Seuss character--the Cat in the Hat--with this hat-making activity inspired by the main character.

Okay, identifying place value isn't as fun as eating ice cream, but with a few index cards and a competitive spirit, it can be disguised a game!

Here are two fun, rhythmic jump rope chants to help your first grader learn the days of the week, practice reading skills, and stay fit!

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

Inspired by the children's book, Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, this card brings the spunky spider Charlotte to life!

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Children will learn about diversity, hear a story that reflects appreciation and acceptance of differences, and connect with a pen pal in another country through writing and drawing a letter.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

In this activity, your child will interview a caring adult or friend to ask them when they have seen them at their best.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Invite the hungry caterpillar over to your house by creating a larger-than-life, colorful caterpillar friend out of balloons!

In this inspiring activity, children create and perform their very own Reader’s Theater about helping the planet!

In this activity, you and your child will watch a video and learn how the brain easily remembers negative information, but not always positive. You will practice positivity by writing or drawing pictures of 10 positive things that happened today.

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

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 all about colors with the best teachers of all -- cupcakes!

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!