Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

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

To practice place value, here's a fun hands-on activity to get your child flipping through place value with ease!

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

What is a compound microscope? Kids find out by making one of their own in this cool science fair project.

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

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

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

Help your child get a grasp on what it was like to build gigantic ancient structures with this easy engineering activity about science and physics.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

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.

Physical touch through tapping and hugging can be a wonderful way to regulate emotions. In this social emotional learning activity, your child will explore the power of tapping or hugging to help them calm down and relieve feelings of stress or anxiety.

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

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!

Kids put their geography knowledge to the test in this balloon volley game inspired by the Dr. Seuss book "Oh the Places You'll Go".

Give your child a glimpse of how another set of students approach reading by teaching him how the blind use braille.

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.