Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Have your kid try his hand at mood charades. It's a great way to promote social development and hone reading comprehension skills, not to mention tons of fun!

Enlist your fifth grader's help in making homemade mistletoe. Every time someone passes under it, he will express appreciation to another family member!

Use this simple and versatile sauce in pasta, sandwiches, or atop baked chicken.

Kids write about their favorite parts of school in 100 words to celebrate 100 days of school in this 5th grade writing activity.

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

Learn whether Mylar Balloons last longer than Latex Balloons or vice versa.

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Being present is essential for learning, so help your child become more aware of their body and surroundings through an activity called "mindful walking."

Get your creative kid into tasseography! The ancient art of reading tea leaves gets a modern update in this simplified version for youthful fortune tellers!

This experiment that explores water and air pressure will amaze your fifth grader as it appears that a single card is holding water in an upside-down glass.

Romantic idioms are colorful and sometimes confusing phrases about love. Make a book of romantic idioms with this activity.

If it's Easter, it must be time for egg hunts. But we have to admit, most kids would rather take a bite out of a yummy cupcake than a hard-boiled egg.

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.

This experiment explores whether reading text on a computer screen or type on paper leads to better retention of the information read.

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

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

This brain teaser challenges your fifth grader to unscramble some specialized Winter Olympics language.

Follow this Colonial recipe for candied rose petals, and share the sweets with friends, family or classmates.

Teach kids about a fun way they can remember this more efficiently- the power of mnemonics. Kids will be amazed.

Science fair project which uses coins flips to visually demonstrate the probability of an event and how to express it.

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

Perform a special St. Patrick's Day magic trick with this fun craft project! 

In this cool physics experiment, use double plane mirrors at various angles to learn about light reflection. Then, see if you can solve a puzzling problem!

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

Science fair project that determines whether mass and weight are the same or different.

Is horse manure a possible energy source in a crisis? Use calorimetry to find out how much energy horse manure can produce in this science fair project.

This science fair project uses paper chromatography to investigate whether black, brown, orange, and purple are pure colors or mixtures of other colors.