Got the pre-writing blues? Try this simple five-finger technique to help your second grader develop a sequenced plan for her early compositions.

Use a basic tape recorder and some favorite books to help your first grader read smoothly--and make someone's day in the process!

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

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!

Your child helps the environment while saving your family money in this fun and rewarding "Gas Guzzlers" competition.

This activity will put those Halloween treats to good use by using candy corn to help your child with her subtraction skills.

In this sound experiment children listen for differences as they tap on a bag of air, a bag of water, and a wooden block held up to their ears.

Whatever the season, celebrate greenery and growth by helping your child study some delightful spring words.

This project examines whether playing music during class helps students learn or if it distracts students from learning.

In this activity, your child will reference Matisse and also learn about patterns.

Making Dad a comic book is a great gift for Father's Day, and one that helps them work on fine motor skills, storytelling and handwriting.

Strong writing engages all five senses, and this fabulous fall-themed simile activity is the perfect way to celebrate sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

Here's a thought-provoking activity to make new vocabulary words "stick" in the mind of your young learner.

Let your young scientist explore a brave new world of sound with an experiment that just requires a handful of common household items.

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

This project will help keep your child's thoughts in order as he creates stories from the beginning all the way through to the end.

Try a fun Mother's Day game for moms and kids to play together!

In this classic Ivory soap experiment, kids learn what happens to different types of soap in the microwave, and why!

It's rhyme time! With this science fair project idea, your child will find out which words can be considered easy rhyming words, and why.

Beginning poets can be overwhelmed keeping track of rhyme and rhythm. Have your little writer try a skeltonic poem, which focuses on end rhyme.

Step into the fantastic world of colors with a project that explores what shade you -- and your friends -- like best.

Being present is essential for learning, so help your child become more aware of their body and surroundings through an activity called "mindful walking."

Give your child a glimpse of how another set of students approach reading by teaching him how the blind use braille.

What causes dilated pupils? Young scientists will find out by applying what they already know about changes in pupil size and making models of the pupil.

In this high energy, interactive game, third graders are challenged to race, involving spelling patterns in words.

What causes sound? Here's a simple science experiment that adds a visual element to the science of sound to help kids better understand this tricky concept.

Help your kid get a handle on punctuation by challenging her to create a story that's truly out of this world.

Helping your child write their own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help them grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

This fun geometry game requires players to use measurement, find perimeter, and draw polygons. It's great for a fourth grade math student!

Have a bookworm on your hands? They'll boost their spelling and problem solving skills with this Oulipo activity re-writing lyrics to beloved Christmas songs!