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This first grade science activity is great for winter! Your child will grow and observe her own amaryllis bulb, keeping a journal of her scientific findings.

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Draw some educational value out of a summer stocked full of adventures!

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

In kindergarten, your child spent lots of time counting things one by one. But in first grade, he'll need to be able to count in groups, especially by fives.

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math game.

A food groups plate shows your child what category her foods belong in. Make a food groups plate with your child before dinnertime.

Trying to find sums of groups of multiples is a great way to practice your addition. Be sure to double check your work. If you clear all of the cards, you win!

In this science fair project, kids measure how weather conditions affect how fast a puddle evaporates.

Make subtraction practice more fun with this outdoor review game that's great for beginning math learners and more advanced!

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

Invite your first grader to play this subtraction sacks game to get her actively involved in understanding and memorizing subtraction facts.

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

Make the abstract nature of time and money easier for your kid to understand with some fun ideas that focus on these concepts.

Practice subtraction with your second grader in this fun dice game. Math concepts have never been more fun!

Try this card game to build math fact skills, like addition and subtraction, and have a great time, too!

This fall, bake some festive caramel apple cupcakes with your second grader and help her build her math skills while you're at it!

Make math fun for your child by turning it into a game and challenging him to beat the calculator with this cool math race!

Gather the neighborhood children together and practice graphing with this backyard tournament!

Practice measurement using centimeters in this fun math race designed for your second grade student!

The next time you've got a restless second grade earth scientist on your hands, use this experiment to demonstrate crystals and make a tasty treat, too!

Help your curious kid cut through the clutter and collect the facts with a simple and fun science foldable.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

Have your kid practice completing number patterns and then create her own patterns on the wings of a butterfly with this delightfully simple paper project.

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

Play a game of "restaurant" to reinforce real-world applications of counting and using money.

Shake those dice and try to roll big numbers in this first grade math game. Practice addition in a new, fun way!