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

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Here's an activity to teach your fourth grader how to reflect on her past year and set specific, attainable goals to reach in the New Year.

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!

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.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

Here's a great activity to get your child using imagination and artistic skills to create a handmade vocabulary book, complete with illustrations!

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

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

In this outdoor science activity you'll find tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.

Here's a fun way for your child to exercise his writing chops...and prove a point! A great way to practice persuasive writing.

Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

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

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

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!

Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to their neighborhood.

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

Want to do something a little different for Dad this year? Have your child design his very own Father's Day "Greatest Hits CD" card.

This science fair project idea explores the relationship between oil and water in terms of density as well as hydrophilic/hydrophobic compounds.