Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Help your child discover the difference between his wants and needs using this poster.

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

In this science fair experiment, children demonstrate the relationship between the amount of stuff and the amount of pressure in a closed system.

This project demonstrates the correspondence between the volume of water displaced by a submerged object and the volume of the object displacing it.

The objective of this science project was to build a model of a volcano and observe reaction between different substances, including baking soda and vinegar.

This competitive inequalities card game is a great way to help your child understand the connection between numerals and the values they represent.

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:

Make a "feeling meter" that helps your first grader read key feeling words and communicate his emotions accurately to you.

In this fun activity, your child will learn the difference between facts and opinions. They will design cards for a matching game that they create and play!

First grade science often covers solids, liquids, and gases. This silly science explores serious facts about the difference between all three.

Play this homophone game with your child the next time you sit down with them to read a story and help them build some valuable reading skills.

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

Make learning to read even more fun for kids by creating an accordion learning book filled with fun transportation pictures.

With school, home, and activities in between, life can sometimes feel chaotic to kids. Help your child learn how to stop and relax with handmade peace rocks.

For Read Across America Day, challenge your first grader to come up with a story using magnetic words inspired by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr. Seuss.

Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

Here is a way to help your first grader keep track of the books she has read, and also help her develop some critical thinking skills.

Here's an activity to encourage your young artist to read. Invite your child to visualize directions on colors, numbers, and shapes to create cool pictures!

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

This Thanksgiving cornucopia activity will give you a nice homemade table decoration and will give your child a festive reason to read, write, and be thankful.

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!

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!

Celebrate Read Across America Day with your first grader by playing a pink crepe paper racing game inspired by Dr. Seuss's book "The Cat in the Hat Come Back."

This activity introduces growth mindset and looking at mistakes as opportunities to learn and grow, rather than obstacles. Your child will understand the difference between seeing a mistake as a learning opportunity, rather than as a disappointment.

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

What would it be like to be the Cat in the Hat from the famous Dr. Seuss book? This Read Across America project has your 1st grader making his own fun-in-a-box!