Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Help your second grader understand compound words by doing this fast, goofy three legged race.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Show your second grader how to celebrate nature by turning some collected pencil shavings into miniature 3-D designs.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

Help your child make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

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

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

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

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

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

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.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

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"?

Practice reading and writing by helping your first grader create a family recipe book!

To reach goals and gain accomplishments, you have to have a plan for success. This activity will help your child to create goals for the upcoming school year.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Help your first grade reader become an expert in "sh," "ch," and "th" words with this fun, homemade game.

Help your child create a written message and practice their letters using sticks they find in nature. Here's how to get started.

Get your child thinking about time with this art project, where you'll create a fun book on his daily routine.

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

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

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

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

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

Help your first grade reader master those letter blends like "ch" and "sh" with this memorable and hilarious beanbag toss game.

Is your precocious third grader a Shakespeare in the making? Challenge her growing vocabulary with a group game that rewards her wordy ways