1st - 3rd Grade Common Core Activities

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

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.

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

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

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

Playing a tactile game with multiplication will help your child get a better grasp of basic math concepts and transform your kid into a master multiplier.

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.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

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

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

Simple and straightforward, this money math game helps kids practice counting, adding change, and working with decimals.

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

Play this fun basketball game to help your third grader master their multiplication tables.

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.

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

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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

Time is an abstract concept that's difficult to grasp. But waiting for the turkey to come out of the oven on Thanksgiving is a concretely yummy experience.

Here's a pumpkin nut bread recipe that makes for a wonderful project on a crisp autumn afternoon.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

Labor Day is the perfect time to celebrate our postal workers. Have your kid write a thank you note to your local post office to show his appreciation.

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

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.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Reinforce your child's measurement and problem solving skills this holiday season! This decadent bread pudding, dressed up with pumpkin and warm spices, is a holiday show-stopper.