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.

In this real-world exercise about the Teal Pumpkin Project, your child will create a persuasive poster to spread the word about the project in the hopes of convincing people to offer non-food trinkets this Halloween season.

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! 

This fill-in-the-blanks game is a little like Mad Libs, but for emerging writers. Get ready for some silly sentences!

Here's a fun activity to show your child how to use prefixes and root words to "root out" the meaning of a word!

Learn about the Bill of Rights this Presidents Day by playing a Pictionary-inspired drawing game. Players draw a right as others try to guess what it is.

Use a deck of playing cards to practice place value and other math concepts with your upper elementary child!

Playing a tactile game with multiplication will help your child get a better grasp of basic math concepts and transform your kid into a master multiplier.

Nothing says fall like pumpkin soup, but it's also really good for you, with high amounts of fiber, iron, zinc and free radical busting antioxidants.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

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!

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

This fall-themed drawing game is a great way to introduce your kid to some of the important symbols of the fall season.

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

Take paper football to the next level by creating a "field" with objects from around the house. A great indoor and rainy-day activity.

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

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.

You've probably played the game "I Spy." It's perfect for long car rides. But with a little tweaking, the game can also help kids practice syllables.

Time is an abstract concept that's difficult to grasp. But waiting for the turkey to come out of the oven on Thanksgiving is a concretely yummy experience.

Remember the classic card game, Go Fish? Here's a fun twist on it that will help your kid learn her the different parts of speech in a fun way!

Take the spookiness out of spiders with this web-making activity! Your child will practice talking about and creating shapes in this Halloween craft, and learn about spiders along the way.

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.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

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

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

Celebrate the fiery colors of fall with a charming tree and a pile of wordy leaves.

This flash card game will help your child memorize words while visually learning the differences between objects.

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

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