Challenge your child to a word count war, and practice good note-taking skills at the same time!

Leadership is a word that can hold many meanings. In this activity, your child will define the word "leadership," learn more about a leader they admire, and reflect on their leadership. Finally, your child will reflect on how they too are a leader!

Inspire a love for the written word by creating an illustrated nature poetry book with your kids.

This simple game isn't just a diversion, it teaches your child to identify the incorrect word within a familiar verse.

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!

If your first grader has a hard time practicing his vocabulary skills, introduce him to this fun word building game.

Want a word game to play? How about just a fun way to spend the afternoon? Get creative thinking going and have fun with vocabulary!

Help your first grader build sight word knowledge by creating a reading pointer and taking the family on a house-wide reading tour!

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

Communicating using the written word doesn't have to be tough! It can be as simple and fun as composing a comic strip.

Before your next family getaway, make a set of picture/word vocabulary cards together. These cards will build your child's language and comprehension skills.

Teach an important and often comical historical lesson with a prediction game that teaches youngsters about the fallibility of word-of-mouth talk.

Help your child pick up spelling, alphabetical order, sight word practice, and reading fast with just simple clothespins and paint sticks.

In this social emotional learning activity, you will help your child practice mindfulness of emotions, guiding them to create a word search to understand and explain feeling words.

Help your kid create a patriotic red, white, and blue flag banner! On each flag have him write a different word that describes our veterans or fallen soldiers.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

Halloween bingo is a fun Halloween word and symbol activity for ghosts and ghouls of all ages. Play Halloween bingo this October to get into the spooky spirit.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

Choose a destination and "race" your way there! This activity is a great for charting progress and motivation.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child researching, collecting, and charting plant specimens from the neighborhood.

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

Help your child sharpen time skills by creating a special day and charting each part in a detailed schedule.

Here's an entertaining ball game filled with spins, jumps, and claps to keep your child having fun while you get a moment to yourself.

This science fair project introduces children to static electricity and the idea that electricity is more than lights and plugs.

When you rub a balloon on your head, your hair stands up; but is that true for everyone? Does hair color affect static electricity?

Introduce colors to shadow play with this creative and irresistible science activity!

This version of the carnival game where you try to toss chips into a cup, to win a fabulous prize, gives kids a boost in early writing and reading.

This project is a vivid, concrete introduction to the basic but important idea that plants need sunlight and water to grow.

The moon doesn't produce its own light, so why can we see it shining in the sky? Learn about reflection and planetshine in this fun and easy science project!

Practicing letters and words by writing them out is all well and good, but spelling out your practice words with old puzzle pieces is a lot more fun!