This year on Mother's Day, here's a gift that builds vocabulary while bringing a smile to Mom's face!

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

This variation of Duck, Duck, Goose is played in pairs, which means a lot more activity for participants!

In this parts of speech fall scavenger hunt, kids will search for all the hidden leaves, sort them into parts of speech categories, and then practice creating their own sentences using the words they find.

Palindromes are a fun and silly way to practice writing skills. Challenge your child to come up with as many palindromes as she can in this crazy activity!

El dia de los muertos (the day of the dead) is a Mexican holiday celebrated on November 1st and 2nd every year. Other Latin American countries celebrate a variation of the holiday, but it originates in Mexico and is unique to this country. These two days

Combine rhymes, riddles and poetry with a terse verse! What do you call floral electricity? Flower Power!

Help your child get more comfortable with rhyme schemes with The Bear in Despair by Amanda Bray Cody.

Help your second grade scientist explore the timely topic of wind speed using a version of the classic Beaufort Scale.

Stories change as you retell them. The objective of this science fair project is to demonstrate how information gets interpreted, distorted and changed.

In this fun science experiment, kids will determine the best method for ripening avocados and discover the cool chemical reaction that makes this possible.