3rd - 5th Grade Common Core Activities

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

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

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

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

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 activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

Playing a tactile game with multiplication will help your child get a better grasp of basic math concepts and transform your kid into a master multiplier.

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!

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

Play this fun basketball game to help your third grader master their multiplication tables.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

This fun activity encourages your child to develop their skills in not only taking measurements, but also in working with the measurements themselves.

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

Reinforce your child's measurement and problem solving skills this holiday season! This decadent bread pudding, dressed up with pumpkin and warm spices, is a holiday show-stopper.

This Thanksgiving cornucopia activity will give you a nice homemade table decoration and will give your child a festive reason to read, write, and be thankful.

Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

Here's a pumpkin nut bread recipe that makes for a wonderful project on a crisp autumn afternoon.