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Help your children practice their presentation skills by helping them create their very own show called "The Daily News."

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Here are three activities you can do at home and around town to bring algebra into your daily lives.

One way to "trick" your child into getting extra practice with one-step equations is to play a variation of the classic game, tic tac toe.

Encourage your child to take ownership of a plant by creating a care plan and following it over the course of a couple of weeks.

How many ways can Christmas fun "add up"? Download this fourth grade math worksheet and find out!

In this experiment, students find out what happens when a less-dense fluid interacts with a denser one, replicating the effect of cooler solid rock on magma.

In this cooler-than-average writing activity, your child uses paint chips and words to write a story!

The ability to identify number patterns is one of the building blocks to success in higher-level math and this game is the perfect way to practice.

Check out this fun and easy-to-play guessing game that will build your child's geometry vocabulary.

Here's an activity that will get your child's attention with a back-to-school shopping spree. He'll use decimal skills to add, subtract, multiply, and divide!

In this activity, your child will reflect on how adults can learn from kids. They will watch a TED Talk presented by a 12-year-old girl about the power of young people’s ideas and teachings, and they will generate some of their own unique ideas.

By taking math on a shopping trip your child will be practicing rounding, estimation and addition with a with a hands-on method.

Strengthen your fourth grader's reading skills with this analytic "reader's theater" activity.

Young artists will combine two animals into one in this imaginative art-project-slash-game!

In this activity, your child will reflect on one role model in their life or research one historical figure that has displayed perseverance. Then, they will create a slideshow presentation or poster that defines and illustrates perseverance.

Incorporate a lesson about metaphors into a writing and drawing project featuring one of the most classically recognizable of holiday icons: Rudolph!

Test your kid's knowledge of presidents one through forty-four with this fun and educational matching game!

Teach your little one to appreciate all the best things in life with a keepsake Thanksgiving plate.

Unlike other seed sprouting projects, this one allows kids to compare five different sprouts (either 5 herbs or 5 flowers) by watching them grow in a glove.

Have your child build a model of a coral polyp, one of the tiny animals that composes a coral reef.

Start a unique tradition with your fourth grader; bake and paint one-of-a-kind Olympic pins--out of salt dough!

Observe how your brain works while it is focused on one thing, and how it works while you are distracted by another thing.

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

Take a stab at 18th century American cooking with your kids by following this tasty recipe from one of the first colonial cookbooks.

Teach your fifth grader the ancient Japanese art of origami with this incredible origami balloon that uses just one piece of paper!

Make environmentally friendly, chemical-free toothpaste using one of the most common, inexpensive pantry staples in the American kitchen: baking soda.

Invite your fourth grader to celebrate one of four holidays by creating a kid-friendly homemade Menorah, Advent Wreath, Kinara, or Diya!

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

The elegance of a glitter vase will rival the flowers inside it! Help your child craft this artsy gift as a special gift for a loved one.