In this social emotional learning activity, children will practice problem solving with kind attention as they play math games, participate in a mindfulness session, and create a work of art to help get them in touch with their "lion mind."

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.

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.

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

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.

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

Create addition problems using critical thinking skills in this fun second grade math card game.

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

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.

This activity will put those Halloween treats to good use by using candy corn to help your child with her subtraction skills.

This fun experiment provides a concrete and visually striking illustration of photosynthesis.

Make math fun for your child by turning it into a game and challenging him to beat the calculator with this cool math race!

Help your child "step up" to second grade math fact challenges with a fun addition and subtraction game in your very own kitchen.

Make practicing addition facts more fun and teach your child the helpful strategy of adding quickly to 10 in this fun and easy-to-make card game!

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

Learn about this simple machine and make a pulley of your own to use for fun science trials.

This balloon-powered car project is a great way for your kid to learn about energy and how it can be used efficiently.

In this activity, your child will explore the differences between facts and opinions. Together, you will go on a scavenger hunt in your home and play the role of detectives in search of facts.

This science fair project idea investigates how optical distances change the apparent size of an object as seen through a magnifying lens.

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.

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

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

Here's a fun book-making project that will help your child learn to abbreviate and provide an opportunity for her to exercise her artistic abilities.

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.

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

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

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!

What's the science behind those out-of-sight roots? Find out if you can trick roots into growing in different directions.