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Build your child's vocabulary and get his body moving at the same time with this fun dance map activity!

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

Get your child writing as she describes the four seasons, then decorates a shape for each to hang in the house!

Grandparents are always wondering what to get kids for their birthdays. Try out this idea: a list of 10 little-known facts about Grandma or Grandpa.

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.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

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.

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

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.

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

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

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

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

Your child can enjoy the summer sun as she creates her own one-of-a-kind mural!

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

If helping your child learn parts of speech makes you want to take a nap, try this exercise. It's a sure way to keep those creative juices flowing.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

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

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Unleash your child's imagination by inviting them to create a tall tale set in their own hometown.

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

This 4th of July, end the battle for independence in your house, and show your child just how much freedom she can enjoy.

Even the most reluctant beginning writers love to experiment with the "cliffhanger."