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This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

This holiday season, help your third grader celebrate gifts--so often both cost-free and priceless--that the family has shared this year.

Help your child learn the parts of speech! Start with adjectives and have your child describe Santa Claus to someone who has never heard of him.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

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 reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

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

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

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

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

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

People have identification cards, why not pets? Make an ID card for your family pet, a fun activity that also gives your child some writing practice.

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

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

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

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

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

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!

Try this delicious and nutritious recipe for Green Eggs and Ham, inspired by Dr. Seuss's classic story of Sam I Am.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

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

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!

Science fair project that examines albedo, and how this information is applied in the design of cars, sportswear, and other items. Which colors reflect light?

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

Gourd painting is a fun fall activity that makes for perfect Thanksgiving decorations. Try gourd painting with your child for some seasonal fun this autumn.

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

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

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.