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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

In this activity, your students will research a favorite superhero and discuss which of their powers are real and not real. Your students will be able to complete a simple research chart and graphic organizer.

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.

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!

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

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 learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.