Give your second grader a chance to get his feet wet with measurement before he moves onto the more complicated stuff by trying this activity with him at home.

Here's an enjoyable at-home activity that gives your child step-by-step practice identifying the important parts of an article and organizing his ideas.

In this activity, have your second grader practice measuring by finding the height, weight, and length of their most treasured toy!

In kindergarten, your child spent lots of time counting things one by one. But in first grade, he'll need to be able to count in groups, especially by fives.

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

Use reusable, recyclable materials--along with a dose of imagination--to build a castle with first grade geometrical forms.

Delay your child's sugar overload, and develop his critical thinking skills, by doing some "sweet sorting" of his Halloween treasures!

Okay, engaging in a graphing activity may sound ho-hum, but if you use fun data, it changes the picture entirely.

Using just an egg carton and some beans or pennies, you can play this game with your first grader and see real gains in core math skills.

Most parents probably wouldn't mind subtracting 8-9 years off their age. Here's a fun third grade subtraction activity that may do just that.

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

Here's a fun at-home activity that will help your child strengthen math skills using high and low temperature data, and become a master temperature tracker!

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

Learn how starch and carbohydrates interact with different solvents in this fun and easy packing peanut science fair project.