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

Your fifth grade aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

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

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

If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice their writing and expression with a list poem.

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

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

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

Send your child on an online hunt where he will practice working with search engines and use his reading comprehension skills to find specific information.

Fish for headlines! This fun and exciting social studies activity is a great way to get your fifth grader reading and understanding newspaper articles.

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

In celebration of Earth Day, help your fifth grader write a poem from the Earth to its inhabitants.

Here's an easy project: create a homework helper bookmark so your fourth grader can write down assignments and mark the pages he needs to read.

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

Does your fifth grader need a study buddy for geometry? Forget about a tutor. Help him make his own geometry dictionary!

As your fifth grader brainstorms and creates a plan for peace, your child will give his creativity and fine motor skills a boost!

Not every poem needs to be about leaves and love. If your fifth grader is more attached to his phone or computer, introduce him to the apostrophe poem.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

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

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.

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

Students usually study for spelling tests by looking over the words and spelling them out loud. Here's a spelling game that gets the whole family involved!

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

Here's an activity to help your child manage their nonfiction reading by focusing on the most important elements of what she's read.

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

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