Take a Shape Safari!
Forget a jeep in Africa. You can head out for a safari right in your own neighborhood. Instead of hunting lions and tigers, you'll troll for circles and triangles.
Make Your Own Seed Packets
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 Paper Bag Book
This project combines arts and crafts with writing, as your child writes a story and publishes it into a book made out of a paper bag!
Create an Animal Folk Tale
Taking inspiration from African folklore, help your child create a richly-embellished tale about his favorite member of the animal kingdom!
Make Fingerprint Art
Get your hands dirty and paint with your fingers. Your fingerprints, that is. In this activity, you'll help your child develop the fine motor coordination she needs to master handwriting.
Going to the Park? Make a Map!
The next time an out-of-town guest is coming to stay, give your child a chance to be the tour guide and take your visitor on a trip to the park. Build your first grader's social studies skills by making a map together.
Sequence Sentences...and Make Your Favorite Sandwich!
Which comes first: the bread or the turkey? Whether first graders are telling a story about a sandwich or making a real one to eat, the sequence is crucial! Help it all make sense--and taste good, too--with this activity.
Play Contraction Concentration!
A contraction is an abbreviated form of two words. It contains an apostrophe which indicates that there are missing letters. Help your child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game.
Practice Eggshell Phonics
Parents, heads up! "Short-vowel" word families such as "ing," "ack," and "ick," get lots of attention in the first grade classroom. Here's a whimsical activity that lets your child build his phonics skills by making a cool paper craft.
Play a Puzzle Piece Spelling Game
Practicing letters and words by writing them out is all well and good, but using old puzzle pieces to spell out your practice words is a lot more fun!
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