1st and 2nd Grade Common Core Activities

Help your child gain reading comprehension skills, as well as listening and memory skills with this fun activity that uses his favorite book!

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

Research shows that when we focus on things we are grateful for, we literally rewire our brains to focus on the positive. Help kids experience the joy of gratitude by creating trees that give thanks.

Prepare for some scary Halloween counting practice! This game encourages players to knock down cylinders and then add to determine their scores.

Children will learn all about cause and effect as they experiment with potion-making in this Halloween themed activity.

Help your child learn science and math skills like sorting, sequencing, and ordering while taking a nature walk and collecting and collaging leaves.

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

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 make an imaginative scene come to life by making a diorama. Your child will be practicing three dimensional thinking and language arts skills.

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

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.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Get estimating with this spooky activity that asks your young mathematician to rely on their problem-solving skills to figure out how many items they believe are in spooky Halloween jars!

This game is the perfect way to prepare your child for any shopping adventures you may embark upon, all while practicing important math concepts.

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.

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

Simple and straightforward, this money math game helps kids practice counting, adding change, and working with decimals.

The alphabet is a big learning milestone for most kids. Help your child learn alphabetical order by making a food list in this fun Thanksgiving activity.

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

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.

Cornucopia still life painting is a great activity for your young artist to look at light and shadow, textures and composition in creating art at Thanksgiving!

Counting syllables can be tough. Help your kid get some practice on Valentine's Day with this simple game.

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.

This Thanksgiving cornucopia activity will give you a nice homemade table decoration and will give your child a festive reason to read, write, and be thankful.

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

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.

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.

Here's a pumpkin nut bread recipe that makes for a wonderful project on a crisp autumn afternoon.

Children get creative with this fun, imaginative activity that combines an upcycled everyday household item with a few craft supplies.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.