Challenge your first or second grade reader to make 100 words in this reading and spelling activity for the 100th Day of School.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

Help your child keep track of his pledges to be more environmentally friendly with a calendar made entirely out of recycled and reused materials!

Play hopscotch with numbers, but also with letters, to get kids ready for reading.

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

Celebrate Labor Day with this fun activity. Show your child how to make a "career book" and explore the many jobs that people have, while practicing writing.

Play the Vocabulary Game to help your child develop a superb, admirable, excellent, magnificent, splendid vocabulary!

Sure, you can go out and buy a box of Valentine cards--but for a special message try this simple craft activity to make someone's day.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

Here's an wholesome arts and crafts activity for your kid: create awesome handmade apple note cards with just some paint and blank paper!

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

Here's an activity to help your first grader read and write, while staying in touch with a faraway friend or relative. Here's how:

Boost those first grade reading and writing skills with this sweet Mother's Day poem idea.

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

This treasure hunt gets kids comfortable using the dictionary, and makes looking up words a lot of fun!

New readers need to develop a "bank" of words they can read by sight. Hate flashcards? Consider this fresh way to practice sight words to perfection...Bingo!