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Teach your child the art of the status update with this cutting-edge take on the old-fashioned book report: the social media book review!

In this fun fall-themed activity, your child will design and decorate a pumpkin based on a picture book. After completing their pumpkin, they’ll write a short story about a new adventure related to their picture book.

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

Children will read a book, then retell the story with pictures they have painted on stones.

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Engage your children with this fun fall activity that integrates math and science. First, your child will excavate to find leaves. Next, they'll examine them to determine the colors. Then, your child will graph their findings.

This activity will inspire adults and kids alike to take time to explore the beauty in their community and discover the colors of fall while developing their descriptive and creative writing skills!

Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

Making metric conversions is a difficult concept to master. Get in some extra practice by playing this Tic-Tac-Toe game with your learner.

Craft a paper rocket in this hands-on activity inspired by the life of Mae Jemison!

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

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.

Children take inspiration from Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai to write their own blog listicle on a topic of their choosing.

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

Want to build your child's literary repertoire with tools like foreshadowing and description? Try a spooky Halloween story!

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

Test your learner's knowledge of Barack Obama by challenging your child to complete a crossword puzzle about the President after reading a short biography.

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

Work on homophones, words that sound the same, and spelling with this imaginative activity!

This fun activity encourages your child to develop their skills in not only taking measurements, but also in working with the measurements themselves.

Honor the spirit of the Civil Rights Movement by interviewing someone in your community who lived it.

This alphabet hunt is pure pirate-loving fun. And it gives kids practice in learning to recognize letters and sounds-- a key skill for reading readiness.

Make English grammar fun with this engaging card game! Play a few rounds after a lesson on tenses to help students review what they have learned.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

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.

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

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f