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Here are two fun, rhythmic jump rope chants to help your first grader learn the days of the week, practice reading skills, and stay fit!

Cookie cutters aren't just for gingerbread men anymore. Here are 8 fun and creative projects to do with cookie-cutters!

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!

Help your kindergartener identify and sort eight different kinds of common seeds on this "seed wheel" plate you can use all growing season.

Delicious nachos are easy and fun to make any day of the week. Here's how to master this easy nacho recipe.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

Create homemade seed packets with your kids. This activity combines your kids' love of science and the outdoors with a little writing and drawing fun.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

Conduct a simple experiment with your child to study how dirt tracks change as they age in this 1st grade science activity.

This science project challenges students to study deer behavior in their natural habitat- the feeding patterns, social behaviors, male to female ratio, etc.

Study science with your first grader in this arts and crafts activity that models the reason why fall leaves change color with some paint and crayons.

Help your kindergartener make and play a "Hop On Pop"-inspired card game--a fun way to learn word families!

Make a photo book to provide a reassuring guide for your child's first days and weeks of school.

Practice counting to100 independently with this American flag craft project! 

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

Build your child's social studies skills by making a map together.

Dads, this activity's for you. Brighten mom's day with a set of kid-designed "mom coupons" that are sure to keep mom happily pampered for weeks.

Here's a motivational kit that lets your emerging reader know you're with him for the whole wild ride.

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

Help your kindergartener expand social studies and science work while creating this lovely bag clip for the holidays.

Help your kindergartener use a map to find "leprechaun gold"--and build early social studies skills in the process!

Practice early social studies skills and get your child excited about the new school year with this fun activity.

Help your preschooler chart her good eating habits with this arts and crafts activity that has her making a healthy fruits and vegetables rainbow and graph!

Here's a math, science, and social studies activity: help your kindergartener become a "coin archaeologist" by examining how different coins look and feel.

Here's a great early reading and science activity for curious children. Learn how to plant your child's name in seeds for a growing writing activity!

Blend science and math to explore a very important first grade social studies question: does our planet contain more land or more water?

Make this paper chain calendar and give your child a visual reminder of the passing of time.

For a cool art project, help your child create a "Me Timeline," a unique poster that works on a key math and social studies skill: putting events in order.

Children learn the six parts of a plant...but do they really understand? Try this plant-themed meal plan to bring school science into the home.

Make a kindergarten "discovery table" that reinforces both science and writing skills. Here's how: