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Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

Outer Space Story

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

How to Write a Scary Story

This simple way to help your child understand story problems begins as a quick activity and turns into a study tool for years to come!

Four-Square for Story Problems

Mad Libs are fun but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story himself!

Fill in the Blanks

Have your child try her hand at creating a colorful, beaded necklace that's not only stylish, but also tells a story.

Life Necklace

In this activity, your child will reflect on and write a story about a person who has embodied integrity and honesty in their life.

Living with Integrity

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Fall Family Theater Night

Children will reflect on the importance of performing acts of kindness for the Earth, hear a story about easy ways they can care for the Earth, and set goals to conserve more in their everyday lives.

Acts of Kindness for the Earth

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

Write Nutsy News Stories

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

Can You Keep a Secret?

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

The Daily News

Your child will reflect on the term "beauty" and the things they are grateful for. They will read the book All the World by Liz Garton Scanlon and reflect on how focusing on the small and big things of beauty around them can benefit themselves and others.

Seeing the Beauty in Small and Big Things

Understanding how to make positive choices about where to put our money and time is a valuable lesson us all! Children strengthen their responsible decision-making skills by learning about consumerism and its effects on society and the environment.

Consumption to Consumerism

Give your emerging writer a better feel for terminal punctuation with this activity that will have her mix up punctuation marks in a favorite childhood book.

Terminal Punctuation

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

Book Through the Summer

Recruit a grandparent, pen pal, or far-off friend and get ready to engage your child in some old-fashioned communication, with a new twist.

A Collaborative Writing Experience

Physical touch through tapping and hugging can be a wonderful way to regulate emotions. In this social emotional learning activity, your child will explore the power of tapping or hugging to help them calm down and relieve feelings of stress or anxiety.

Tapping and Hugs for Managing Strong Emotions

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

Drawing Characters

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Write a New Ending

Children will deepen their understanding of global citizenship and create a collage that illustrates all of the ways many communities are connected.

What Does It Mean to Live in a Global Community?

This science fair project idea discovers whether there are some objects that do not fall at a constant rate.

Falling Objects Revisited

Help your fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.

Martin Luther King Stamp

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

Kid Reporter

Does your young writer need more details to beef up her writing? Why not make it fun by mixing in some creative artwork, and take her writing to the next level.

Be a Detail Artist!

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

Practice Reading by Getting Into Character!

Cultivating resilience is one of the most important ways we can overcome challenges and reach our goals. In this activity, children will explore the concept of resilience and then create a video to explain and teach resilience to others.

Resilience

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.

Play Vocabulary Bingo!

This science fair project idea explores if the length of the string that an object is suspended on has an effect on how fast or slow it swings.

Does Length Have an Effect on Speed? 

Play food isn't just for preschoolers! Help your child create a fun Passover craft that doubles as tea-party play food for younger siblings.

Felt Play Food: Macaroon

This Santa puppet brings a little extra cheer to your Christmas celebration. Make a Santa puppet with your child this holiday season.

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