Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."

In this activity, your child will explore what it means and how it feels to live in a community.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

Let your second grader channel a famous Dr. Seuss character--the Cat in the Hat--with this hat-making activity inspired by the main character.

Okay, identifying place value isn't as fun as eating ice cream, but with a few index cards and a competitive spirit, it can be disguised a game!

Reinforce your child’s understanding of geometry and 2D shapes while learning about the artist Mary Blair and her amazing contributions to many loved movies, books, and characters throughout her career.

Inspired by the children's book, Charlotte's Web by E.B. White, this card brings the spunky spider Charlotte to life!

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

In this activity, your child will interview a caring adult or friend to ask them when they have seen them at their best.

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

In this inspiring activity, children create and perform their very own Reader’s Theater about helping the planet!

In this activity, you and your child will watch a video and learn how the brain easily remembers negative information, but not always positive. You will practice positivity by writing or drawing pictures of 10 positive things that happened today.

This activity will help generate ideas for your child to write about...without the moans and groans!

Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

In this social emotional learning activity, kids will reflect on the past goals they've accomplished, then brainstorm new ideas, inventions, or goals they would like to accomplish and make a prototype to help visualize their achievement.

In this social emotional learning activity, your child will learn about emotions and how they change, just like many parts of nature. Then they will spend time outside, exploring and reflecting on what they have learned.

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

The objective of this science fair project is to examine the effects of temperature on salt and water solutions, as they form crystals over time.

Celebrate our founding fathers and the parchment they wrote on with this DIY scroll project.

Help your child get more comfortable with rhyme schemes with The Bear in Despair by Amanda Bray Cody.

This witches' brew recipe for kids is a cool mix of lemonade, tapioca pearl "eggs," and gummy worms. Try this witches' brew recipe for kids this Halloween.

Children will learn why and how to compost as they help with the process of filling their compost, turning it, and observing the changes that occur.

In this lesson, your child will watch a video on restorative justice, and together you will come up with ways your family can use restorative justice at home.

Using beautiful oil pastels and their own wild imagination, your child will come up with their own spooky, spectacular, or spine-tingling monster.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Don't shell out the money for a new pair of kicks! Help your second grader add some charm to her shoelaces with fabric dye.

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

Using simple materials, children will create a movement card game that the whole family can play together.