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

It's that time of the year again! Celebrate the start of a new school year with a back to class bash, complete with arts and crafts, food and games.

Give your third grader a head start in language arts by teaching her an alliteration lesson with this Santa Claus-themed writing project.

Help your child learn about the world through this 3rd-4th grade geography activity: start a postcard collection and mark where they came from on a world map.

Find the area in this fun math card game. You'll help your child start thinking in terms of units as you create shapes out of playing cards.

This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!

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.

Want to go paperless this holiday season? Here's a delicious way to get your third grader started (and practice some writing in the process!)

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!

Engineers in training can get started with this simple wheel-and-axle construction activity.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Observe with your third grader what happens when food starts to decompose, and boost science skills simultaneously with this experiment!

This activity is a great starting point for practicing mental math because it is quick, easy and involves only simple addition facts.

Your third grader will strengthen her hand-eye coordination as she creates and plays her very own take-anywhere pinball game!

This science experiment has students test whether a snail moves faster on concrete or dirt.

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

This fun geometry game requires players to use measurement, find perimeter, and draw polygons. It's great for a fourth grade math student!

Movement activities are crucial for developing minds and bodies. Animal movements, in particular, encourage children to think about their own body mechanics in comparison with animals they may have observed.

Practice math facts with your third grader was never so simple! This activity makes addition, subtraction, multiplication, and even division a lot more fun!

Help your child get ready for back to school with this fun fifth grade activity, which has him creating an "I'm Studying" door sign.

This year, celebrate Father's Day with three hilarious outdoor family games.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Kids love physical comedy, and this activity has the potential of offering up a healthy dose (while also working on balance and dexterity.)

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Add some artsy fun to your child's next reading adventure by letting them draw the characters.

Save up your paper rolls to help your child create an upcycled craft that looks just like iron work!

This year, celebrate the season with a pumpkin wreath! Have your kid trace and cut patterns to create multiple pumpkin shapes from a single sheet of paper.

Is your third grader bombing around on a bike these days? Here's a way to put all that fun time together with some math learning, too.

Learn all about balance and motion as your child designs a corn maze!