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This outdoor science activity for high schoolers gives tips on how to create a nature journal by choosing a native plant or animal and tracking that species.
Everyday Darwin: Create a Nature Journal
Writing
High School
Help your first grade child figure out contractions and their original two words by playing this simple game, Contraction Concentration!
Play Contraction Concentration!
Spelling
First Grade
Show your fourth grader how to make a delicate, dried flower bookmark with flowers native to her neighborhood.
Flower Bookmarks
Composition
Fourth Grade
This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.
String Story Necklaces
Composition
First Grade
If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.
Go Direct for Better Paragraphs
Composition
Fifth Grade
What happens after the prince and the princess get married? This writing activity allows your child to answer that question for herself.
Rewrite the Fairy Tale Ending
Composition
Second Grade
If you can make a list, you can write a poem! Get your child to practice writing and express herself with a list poem.
Write a List Poem
Composition
Fifth Grade
Kindergarteners are expected to master the alphabet. Get your child outside and exercising with this fun, move and shake alphabet game.
Exercise the Alphabet Outside
Letters
Kindergarten
Why go on a shape safari? Because shapes are at the heart of the first grade math and writing curriculum. Plus, a hunt through the backyard is just plain fun.
Take a Shape Safari!
Handwriting
First Grade
If you're looking for something to keep your kid busy on a warm day, and give him some writing practice in the process, bring on the mud!
Mud Painting
Handwriting
First Grade
This Father's Day, give dad something he'll really appreciate: a book about him, written by his favorite author...his son or daughter!
Father's Day "How To" Book
Composition
First Grade
Encourage your second-grader to create art that 'pops' with foil embossing, a simple art medium that uses foil and stylus to create great designs and patterns.
Foil Embossing: "Popping" off the Page
Handwriting
Third Grade
Combine your child's natural curiosity with his developing classification and writing skills by helping him create a backyard field guide.
Backyard Field Guide
Composition
Second Grade
Make a poster with your third grader about what she wants to be when she grows up, while helping her practice her writing, researching, and artistic skills.
Make a "When I Grow Up" Poster
Composition
Third Grade
Use Wallace Steven's '13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' to inspire your middle school teen to sketch and free-write a poem with shifting perspective.
13 Ways of Looking at a Poem
Composition
Middle School

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