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

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

Reflect on how fast your child has grown this past year with this ruler frame craft, perfect for gift-giving!

Here's a motivational kit that lets your emerging reader know you're with him for the whole wild ride.

Help motivate your child to become a more avid and consistent reader by creating a train-themed reading chart that can serve as a visual reminder of their progress.

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

Host a royal party full of "please and thank you" - even the queen would approve. Have a ball while your kids practice etiquette!

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

Caring for ourselves and others can build connections and a greater sense of love. In this activity, children reflect on what it means to be caring and to show kindness to others through drawing and performing a kind act of their choosing.

Ensuring that what we say is truthful, helpful, inspiring, necessary, and kind takes practice! In this social emotional learning activity, your child will set a goal for themselves to THINK before they speak.

Support your first grader's interest in reading with this decorative bookmark that illustrates a favorite scene from a loved book.

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!

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

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

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.

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!

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.

Children will learn about diversity, hear a story that reflects appreciation and acceptance of differences, and connect with a pen pal in another country through writing and drawing a letter.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Invite the hungry caterpillar over to your house by creating a larger-than-life, colorful caterpillar friend out of balloons!

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.

Learn all about colors with the best teachers of all -- cupcakes!

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.