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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.

Talk about ice cream while helping your 4th grader work on crucial punctuation skills.

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

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.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

Let your imaginative kid pretend she's a mermaid as she dives into her food with some charming kelp utensils!

Your first grader will love this addition challenge! Roll dice and keep a running total as you try to achieve the highest score.

Your fourth grader will improve her hand-eye coordination making catnip mice, and you'll finally have a use for all those mate-less socks in the laundry room!

Bring together science and style with this sweet homemade lip balm project.

This science fair project idea explores whether a sundial is as accurate as an atomic clock when telling time.

Create a piece of public art on a movable wall. This scrap paper mosaic is made on a board that can be displayed just about anywhere.

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

Prove that the Earth is not flat. The objective of this science fair project is to measure the angle of the sun and calculate the circumference of the Earth.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

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.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

Kids will explore the corrosiveness of soda in this cool science fair project by leaving pennies submerged in soda overnight.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Learn about the architecture of Asia by building your very own model of a pagoda!

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

This Mother's Day, mix in some fifth grade science learning to create this fabulous fudge!