As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

Here's an authentic writing task that is perfect for Earth Day, or any day! In this activity, your child's pen becomes an instrument of planetary importance.

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.

Those second grade spelling lists may be getting serious, but that's no reason to stop having fun. Here's a high-energy hopscotch game to try.

"Crown" dad this Father's Day—and sneak in some letter-sound practice, too.

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

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

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Here's a household scavenger hunt that shows kids the natural sources behind everyday objects...and builds reading skills, too!

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

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

On Father's Day, delight Dad--and stretch your early reader, too!--with this adorable ABC book of "Fun with Dad."

Foster a love of words in your little cupid this Valentine's Day by creating a memory game that doubles as an early reading activity.

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

What exactly went on in a typical dinosaur family? Travel back to the Mesozoic Era and bring out your kid's creative side with this sequencing activity.

St. Patrick's Day may be all about the 'luck" of the Irish, but this project encourages your child to share her personal experience with luck.

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.

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

Help your child to create a familiar favorite from a book or series he adores out of papier-mache. Exercise your child's imagination and language arts skills.

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

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!

Make these simple homemade New Year's gifts with your child this holiday season to give to friends and family, each with a special message inside.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Here's a fun activity that will help your child become familiar with both punctuation marks...by using pasta shapes!

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

Here's a hilarious alternative to those sugary conversation hearts...and a way to keep building first grade literacy skills while you're at it!