If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

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

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

In this project, learn about animal vision and different kinds of eyes: ocelli, compound eyes, and camera eyes. Find out what a jellyfish or grasshopper sees!

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

To help your child shake the big number blues, here's a handy strategy to make your child a place value pro!

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

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.

The objective of this science fair project is to explore the relationship between acidic and basic compounds.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

This science fair project idea investigates emulsifiers that allow oil and vinegar to mix.

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.

In this project combining nature, art, math, and science, children make rubbings of leaves then observe shapes and structures and sort the leaf images.

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Kids explore how a single movable pulley can confer a mechanical advantage over a fixed pulley in this cool engineering science fair project for 2nd grade.

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.

This science fair project idea identifies trees using a dichotomous key.

Learn about magnifying glasses, concave lenses and inverted images by sending rays of light through a magnifying glass in this cool science fair project!

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Playing the Number Sentence Game with your child gives him the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing numbers using symbols.

Here's a party game that's guaranteed to bring along lots of laughs. Kids get creative as they act out improve scenes with some help from an audience.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

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

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

An ancient form of writing gets new life in an activity designed to help your child read understand what life was like for early Native Americans.