Games and Activities
Looking for activities to show your child the fun side of learning? From science experiments and math games to writing projects and more, we've got you covered! Use the selector on the right to browse around, or narrow your search by grade and subject area.
If your fourth grader is obsessed with all things glow-in-the-dark, then here's an activity that will really light up her imagination!
Remember that old carnival game where you had to guess how many jellybeans were in a jar? Well, guessing is more than pure fun, it's also a key part of kindergarten math. Here's how to bring it to the breakfast table!
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Discover a Dandelion's Habitat
In this activity, children play the role of an ecologist and take surveys of different areas to discover the best habitat for dandelions.
Play Word Bags to Learn Parts of Speech
Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around by creating this fun, easy, learning game your child will enjoy playing!
Be a Flower Spy!
Flowers are up to some very important business: they are reproducing! In this activity, find out who the flowers' "partners in crime" are by being a flower spy.
Make a "KWL" Poster to Organize Learning
A KWL chart is an instructional reading strategy that is used to guide students through a text. It will help your child evaluate new information against her prior knowledge--an important process during third grade.
Race for Spelling Patterns!
In this high energy, interactive game, third graders are challenged to a race, involving spelling patterns in words. This is one race she will want to run again and again! And it will do wonders for her reading fluency.
Learn Science with Bean Sprouts
After completing this fun science project, your child will have a better understanding of plants – and may develop a green thumb in the process!
Learn to Connect with Stories
As important as it is to sway your child away from TV, computer games and plastic toys, sometimes you just have to bring the lesson to him! This activity uses your child's favorite television show to illustrate how we connect to what we read.
Play Story Ball: A Reading Comprehension Game
Take a regular old beach ball, a sharpie marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!
Build Vocabulary with Prefixes and Suffixes
Learning prefixes and suffixes is a great way to boost vocabulary quickly. And these letter combos are best learned in the context of the words that they create. Here's an easy game to get your child thinking about these beginnings and endings, in between a lot of shouting and laughing.
Play Mood Charades!
Not only is this game a fun family activity, it also helps with identifying emotion – a very important skill when it comes to reading comprehension!
