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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.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

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.

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

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.

Helping your child learn to read doesn't only have to mean using books from the library or from the store. You can make a book of your own - a nonsense book!

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

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

Get your child outside to observe the clouds, and get a fun exercise in science, writing, and arts and crafts! Here's how.

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Here's an easy experiment that lets your first grader practice the scientific method, while watching a caterpillar eat.

The power of gratitude is endless! Research shows that cultivating a gratitude practice can gratitude strengthen relationships, improve physical and emotional well-being, deepen empathy skills, and improve self-esteem. With such wide-spread benefits, how

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

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

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

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

Learn all about cause and effect as your child experiments with an exploding pumpkin in this engaging fall activity! Get the whole family involved with this simple science experiment that is a fun and exciting way to combine Halloween and science.

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

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

Invite your first grader to play this subtraction sacks game to get her actively involved in understanding and memorizing subtraction facts.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

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

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Children get creative with this fun, imaginative activity that combines an upcycled everyday household item with a few craft supplies.

This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!