1st - 4th Grade Common Core Activities

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

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

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.

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun 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!

Encourage your child to take in the tastes, smells, sights, sounds and textures of the year's spookiest holiday with a sensory poem!

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.

To celebrate black history month, use this matching quiz to help your kid demonstrate their knowledge of famous African-Americans.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

Celebrate the life and work of Dr. King by making a timeline of some major events during his life and the Civil Rights Movement.

Play this fun basketball game to help your third grader master their multiplication tables.

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

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

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

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!

Time is an abstract concept that's difficult to grasp. But waiting for the turkey to come out of the oven on Thanksgiving is a concretely yummy experience.