Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

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.

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

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.

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

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Give your kindergartener an outlet to articulate his thoughts about going to school for the first time by setting aside time to help him write in his journal.

Spark your kids' interest in writing by helping them write a mini-book about their favorite subject: themselves!

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

This activity allows your kindergartener to translate what they observe into a beautiful poem.

This book-making activity is quick and easy, and it gives emerging readers insight into how a story's illustrations provide context clues.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

Invite your first grader to create this "layers of love" keepsake for that special someone! It holds a sweet, personal message for the recipient.

A new twist on the game of charades will inspire your first grader to look at her favorite books in a whole new light.

Help your learner read, write, and understand letters and letter sounds with this delightful journal activity.

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

Help you child learn the key pieces to a sentence, by creating sentence puzzles at home.

Want to help your child recognize the recipe for a successful sentence? Here's a fun activity to get your child thinking about how sentences work.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

Help your kindergartener develop his sequencing skills in this activity that teaches him about a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Challenge your first grader to wordsmith her way to victory with this puzzle! Who can find the most words in the letters of "Saint Patrick's Day"?

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

Here's a fun activity that takes "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" to a new level--and builds strong kindergarten reading and writing skills

This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!

Few places are as dense with words as a grocery store. The next time you find yourself trolling the aisles with an impatient kid, make it a reading adventure!

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.