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Playing the Number Sentence Game with your child gives him the opportunity to practice ordering and comparing numbers using symbols.

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

Help your second grader grasp the concept of verb tenses with this silly card game!

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.

Will storing cucumbers and tomatoes in the fridge destroy their unique flavors? Find out in this science fair project idea!

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Try these story starters - creativity and sequencing skills combine to create wild stories that will have the whole family in stitches!

Play this "subtraction war" card game with your second grader and watch his math facts mastery leap forward!

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

Our breath can be a helpful tool to connect with a sense of peace and calm. In this home activity, your child will practice counting breaths, hear poems about nature and mindfulness, and write their own poem.

Practice writing skills and use imagination with this fun activity, where your child will write a story about what he thinks life would be like on a cloud.

Help your child create a rebus message for a unique Father's Day card or poster; it's like a collage and encoded message all in one!

Here's a classic celery science experiment that uses celery and food coloring to demonstrate how plants absorb water.

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

Use a basic tape recorder and some favorite books to help your first grader read smoothly--and make someone's day in the process!

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

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!

The power of gratitude is endless! Research shows that cultivating a gratitude practice can gratitude strengthen relationships, improve physical and emotional well-being, deepen empathy skills, and improve self-esteem. With such wide-spread benefits, how

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Learn all about cause and effect as your child experiments with an exploding pumpkin in this engaging fall activity! Get the whole family involved with this simple science experiment that is a fun and exciting way to combine Halloween and science.

Learn all about Misty Copeland, a famous African American ballerina with this hands-on, colorful art project!

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

Next time your second grader needs to send a card, consider this goofy writing and craft project.

Help your first grader understand what a noun is with this fun photo book that catalogs her favorite people, places, and things!

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Children get creative with this fun, imaginative activity that combines an upcycled everyday household item with a few craft supplies.