Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

In this activity, your child will write and draw about a time when they acted in ways that illustrated responsibility, kindness, or integrity. They will also reflect on what it felt like to have control over their choices and behaviors.

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

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

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.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

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

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

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

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.

Children have a naturally inquisitive mind. Foster their curiosity with a walk through an autumn field or park to answer age-old “why” questions. As you walk with your child, you can encourage them to ask questions.