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

Make an "I'm NOT Bored" book filled with your child's favorite activities, to reference the next time she has the urge to declare, "I'm bored."

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

Help your child use recycled materials, a little imagination and some writing skills to build his very own recycled creature.

Make going back to school a fun time! Let your child create her own pencil topper creatures using everyday materials and a Styrofoam ball.

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

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

Looking for a unique arts and crafts activity that gives some writing practice? Help your child make her own back-to-school business cards!

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

Get creative with this engaging activity where kids are asked to create their own pumpkin person and tap into their creative writing skills! Include all family members by having them create their very own pumpkin people.

Send your child on a table of contents treasure hunt to help build basic research skills! Navigating a book is a skill that is sure to come in handy later on.

Turn your living room into a sophisticated café while your child and their friends explore the world of poetry with this unique and entertaining party idea.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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.

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

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

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

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.

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.

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

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

Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.

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.

Kids can turn a favorite fairy tale into a rebus puzzle by replacing the nouns in the story with pictures that they draw themselves.

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

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

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

Here's a writing activity that helps young learners explore an ant's perspective...and practice writing, too!