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Help your child learn how to protect the environment by creating a useful reference for the family with this recycling poster.

Give your child a chance to review his knowledge of safety and show off his writing skills at the same time by writing a safety manual to share at home.

Get your hands on a concoction that breaks the rules about what's a solid and what's a liquid.

A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Use this interactive activity to help your third-grade child develop vocabulary skills and make a flipbook.

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Help your first grader understand what a noun is with this fun photo book that catalogs her favorite people, places, and things!

This variation on the game of tag combines exercise, teamwork, and a little friendly trickery.

Who needs paint, glitter, or crayons when you have natural art supplies right outside your front door?

Play this daily money game with your 2nd grade child to help his math skills.

Try your hand at writing jump rope rhymes by organizing your ideas first, then composing your creation like a poem.

Play tic-tac-toe and help your kid memorize multiplication facts!

Celebrate the 100th day of school by counting and spelling your way to a "$1.00" word in this 3rd grade math and reading game.

This Valentine's Day, promote strong hearts with an active relay that the whole family can enjoy! It's light on the wallet, but heavy on heart health.

The next time you're trapped indoors on a dreary day, try this take on dodgeball. All you need are a group of kids, an open area and a soft, spongy ball.

Take your child outside during winter time and have them observe the leafless trees before having them make a watercolor of a tree or trees using masking tape. They’re sure to love their winter tree painting, plus they make lovely decorations in the home!

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

Help your third grader craft a homemade version of this classic strategy game, using just an old egg carton and a few beads!

Help your second grader make his own badminton set--out of your old pantyhose! He'll delight in his crafty independence, and you'll love saving money.

The Math Monster will save your second grader from repetitive math flashcards. Guessing mystery math facts is a fun way for him to polish arithmetic skills!

In this cool engineering science fair project, kids learn how to build Hero's engine: an enlightening example of Newton's third law.

Homophones are those tricky little words that tend to confound early learners. Help your second grader ace the challenge with this outdoor game.

Halloween bingo is a fun Halloween word and symbol activity for ghosts and ghouls of all ages. Play Halloween bingo this October to get into the spooky spirit.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

Let your child catch you making deliberate errors in this silly game that promotes serious learning about punctuation.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."