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Here is a hands-on activity to help third graders understand the four points of a compass...and how we use them to get around.

The pinwheel is a simple toy that has been around for years and uses the wonders of the wind to spin it and delight kids of all ages!

Your kid will delight in creating an extraterrestrial vehicle from goods found around the house. There's no telling where her imagination will go!

This zombie cake will give your Halloween enthusiast an excuse to lurch and limp around the kitchen. Share this zombie cake with friends and the undead.

Science fair project that examines how to grow bacteria in a controlled setting, using simple materials from around the home.

Make your own wrapping paper with some materials from around the house. Try to make your own wrapping paper this year for a unique presentation for your gifts.

This zombie shirt is a fun and incredibly simple Halloween costume. Have your kid don the shirt lurch around the neighborhood searching for brains...or candy!

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Before Twitter, birds were the ones tweeting, not humans. Have your child discover the magical sounds of nature while recording birds around his neighborhood!

Is your third grader bombing around on a bike these days? Here's a way to put all that fun time together with some math learning, too.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

This craft is a great way to explore the fascinating world of spiders and their webs as you collect spider webs from around your house with your third grader.

Countries all around the world have been using the abacus for thousands of years to make math easier. Have your kid make his own abacus to practice arithmetic.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will write loving kindness notes to place around the home to serve as a reminder (for themselves and others) to see the goodness within themselves.

Invite your child and a few friends to get crabby in this game of soccer with a twist: Instead of running, players "crab crawl" around the playing field.

Your kid will have the coolest lunch around when he creates this owl's head lunch bag topper. Celebrate the arrival of fall with this rustic-inspired craft.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Your child will reflect on the term "beauty" and the things they are grateful for. They will read the book All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon and reflect on how focusing on the small and big things of beauty around them can benefit themselves and others.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

In this high energy, interactive game, third graders are challenged to race, involving spelling patterns in words.

If your child enjoys drawing, here's a fun way to learn about compound words that uses art as a visual aid.

Taking a moment to pause, feel our breath, and to notice the things around us can support a heightened sense of focus and can bring kind attention to the present moment and to tasks at-hand. In this activity, your child will practice the STOP method and

Homophones are those tricky little words that tend to confound early learners. Help your second grader ace the challenge with this outdoor game.

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

In this social emotional learning activity, you will help your child practice mindfulness of emotions, guiding them to create a word search to understand and explain feeling words.

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

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.

Boost your child's listening, verbal and teamwork skills with this unique trust game in which one player guides another through a maze using only words.