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.

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

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Help your child with his decoding and early reading skills in this fun game where you follow a spider web to find your treasure!

Here's a fun activity to reinforce simple short and long vowel words for your first grader.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!

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

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.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

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:

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Childhood summers are magical, full of splashy fun and relaxing afternoons. Preserving those memories should be special as well.

This fun and easy project is the perfect way to help your first grader remember who's who, practice her handwriting, and help decorate for Thanksgiving.

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

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

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

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!