The meaning of Thanksgiving can sometimes get lost among the fun of food and family. Discuss the meaning of Thanksgiving with this fun activity.

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.

Help your child score points with a personalized message of her own. All it takes is a set of handmade letter tiles to create some word wall art.

In this cool science experiment, learn about magnetism and poles, and test magnet strength to find out if two magnets are twice as strong as one.

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

Teach your child about the importance and meaning behind bowing in Asian cultures and help her expand her cultural horizons with this fun activity.

This variation of Duck, Duck, Goose is played in pairs, which means a lot more activity for participants!

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

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

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

Is it solid or liquid? Create oobleck and witness the amazingly weird oscillation between the two!

In this experiment, your child will create two compost bins and see if he can determine what attracts fruit flies.

Help your child improve his coin counting skills in these two math games that have him race to reach $1.00.

Milk is made of water and fat; but how can you separate the two? Find out in this color changing milk experiment.

Looking for something to do with all those plastic 2-liter bottles that seem to accumulate endlessly? Turn them into a unique mini birdbath.

Your child can make a sweet and savory spinach strawberry salad; two ingredients that come together for a light and fresh summer dish!

Here are two streamlined breakfast ideas so that mom not only gets a delicious breakfast for Mother's Day, but a clean kitchen too!

Make fractions easy for your child to understand by incorporating their discussion and practice into meals and cooking that you two participate in together.

In this activity, your child will write stories about two different people. The stories will include similarities and differences in the ways each person lives in their communities.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

In this Halloween-themed activity, young learners will find out what happens when they mix two household items together to create a surprising chemical reaction.

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.

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.

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

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

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

Here's a creative way to build second grade writing skills this Easter.

Prepare your child for winter with a fake igloo and a list of cozy and chilly vocabulary words.

Make a phonics paper egg to help your child build up his reading and writing skills.

Here's an idea for an edible Father's Day "note" that also happens to give your second grader practice in using a fancy new tool: the thesaurus.