2nd - 5th Grade Vocabulary Activities

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

This science fair project idea discovers if an artificial light source will yield the same plant health and growth rates as light from the sun.

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

Does your fifth grader need a study buddy for geometry? Forget about a tutor. Help him make his own geometry dictionary!

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

A strong vocabulary helps your little one with all school subjects. With this scrambled words game, they won't mind brushing up on vocab and learning new words.

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

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

Here's a cheat sheet to help break down words in order to find their meaning.

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

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

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

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

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

Knowing your antonyms from your synonyms is an important part of the second grade writing curriculum, and is a real boon for vocabulary.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

The objective of this science fair project is to explore the relationship between acidic and basic compounds.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.