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If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

Build second and third grade writing skills by using pictures to help kids "see" how to use details in their stories.

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

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.

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.

Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

Help your child navigate their own passion for reading with a bookmark that celebrates their favorite moments, allowing them to relive them again and again.

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

Making personalized postcards out of meaningful photographs is a fun, rainy day project.

Create your very own "stained glass" flower, the perfect gift for mom this Mother's Day!

Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own Father's Day "Greatest Hits CD" card.

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

This activity is a great way to engage learners in Earth Day celebrations while cultivating skills around nonfiction comprehension and research writing.

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

Try this concrete, hands-on organization system and you can count on more efficient, less stressful evenings this school year.

These secret code activities are fun, and also provide fourth graders with great opportunities to practice language development and logical reasoning.

Help your child learn more about the military by having him create a portrait of a soldier and write a short summary about why that soldier is important.

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Are you looking for a new way to help your fourth grader celebrate New Year's Day? Try this Flash Back Book!

Help your fourth grader affirm her place in the family and in the march of recent history with this family album project.