In this social emotional learning activity, your child will play a mindful listening game and create a video or skit that teaches others about mindful listening.

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

Try this simple activity to stimulate some very complex thinking with your first grader to develop those all-important reading and comprehension skills.

Take a beach ball, a marker, and a first grader. What do you get? An outdoor activity that works on reading comprehension, in the midst of a game of catch!

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

In this activity, students will draw a picture of the things they like to listen to at home using their superpower sense of mindful listening.

Make a wanted poster of a villain from a favorite book or fairy tale in this fun reading comprehension activity!

Make a story summary folder with your child to help develop reading comprehension and critical thinking skills.

Who are the people young readers meet in their books? This reading activity will help your first grader build important comprehension skills.

Make this creative "story cartoon" tray to help your first grader build reading comprehension skills while having a hilarious time!

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.

In this social emotional learning activity, children will learn about forgiveness by watching a short video, listening to and learning "The Forgiveness Song," and reflecting on a time they practiced forgiveness.

Help your child be a word detective as he builds excellent reading and comprehension skills on his search for clues to decipher meanings of unfamiliar words.

In this activity, your child will explore what it means and how it feels to live in a community.

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

This bookmark is a helpful tool to use during and after reading to remind your child of "good reader" strategies that she can use on her own.

This homemade snare drum made with everyday household items gets its authentic rattle sound from paper clips and tin.

This variation of Duck, Duck, Goose is played in pairs, which means a lot more activity for participants!

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

This zany guessing game asks your first grader to tap into her deductive reasoning skills to guess an activity or object.

In this activity, your child will learn and practice mindfulness by using their senses to focus on one thing at a time.

This classic children's game demonstrates how sound travels through air vs. through a solid.

Guide your first grader through a map drawing project inspired by her favorite fairy tale. Its masked as a fun art activity, but it also packs learning punch!

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Support your first grader's interest in reading with this decorative bookmark that illustrates a favorite scene from a loved book.

This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

Help to build your child's reading skills and get your point across with these homemade message magnets!

Promote the well-being of your first or second grader's mind and body by teaching him some beginning yoga poses and techniques.

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.

Children learn about the benefits of mindfulness, teach someone else what they've learned, and create a sand timer to use during mindfulness practice.