Parents can help their children at home by using a dialogue journal to model good writing.

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.

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

Help your child create a garden journal sketchbook as she observes and records the natural world through the changing seasons.

This first grade science activity is great for winter! Your child will grow and observe her own amaryllis bulb, keeping a journal of her scientific findings.

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

By incorporating natural materials and the powers of observation, your child will become a backyard naturalist while building early writing and drawing skills!

In this activity, your child will write and draw about a time when they acted in ways that illustrated responsibility, kindness, or integrity. They will also reflect on what it felt like to have control over their choices and behaviors.

Teach your first grade scientist the difference between liquids and solids using maple syrup.

What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.

Help your child compose an alphabet poem about the season, and have them practice letters while awakening their creative writing skills, too!

Rewriting this classic Christmas carol will spark your child's creativity while strengthening his familiarity with grammar and style elements.

Help your first grade scientist learn about metamorphosis by observing the life cycle of some interesting creepy crawlies.

Introduce your child to science with something they see everyday--their shadow!

Your kid will have the coolest lunch around when he creates this owl's head lunch bag topper. Celebrate the arrival of fall with this rustic-inspired craft.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

In this investigation, an oil spill is simulated in a jar to observe the damage that oil spills have on the ocean and ocean life.

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

Try this activity with your child to explore what happens to rain (and the living things that need it) when it becomes polluted.

Your kid will be captivated as she watches liquids change color before her very eyes during this fun science project that introduces some chemistry basics.

Using beautiful oil pastels and their own wild imagination, your child will come up with their own spooky, spectacular, or spine-tingling monster.

In this activity, your kid has your permission to get his socks nice and filthy. In fact, it's a necessity, because those socks are going to make a garden.

The objective of this science project is to determine the length of time for different seeds to germinate.

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

Encourage your child to explore her favorite fairy tale, and learn about characters, plot, setting and story sequence as she draws her own pictures.

Regale your kindergartener with the beloved story of Rudolph, and then segue into a Christmas craft project in which he makes his own reindeer creation!

Slip some science into storm watching with a homemade rain gauge!

Making a calendar is a great way for third graders to identify those words that are always capitalized. Here's how to get started.

For your budding first grade scientist, all you need is some simple, natural materials to create an amazing ant farm. Here's how to get started.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!