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

Is your child struggling to remember the rules of place value? Here's a fun series of hands-on activities to help your child put the value in place value!

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.

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

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.

Celebrate the new school year with a back to school poem!

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

This twist on the classic game of freeze tag spells fun for your fourth grader--and the whole family!

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.

Knowing how to use quotation marks to write character dialog is an important skill for developing writers. Here's a fun way to get your child writing speech.

Practice probability as well as negative and positive numbers in this fun math card game designed for fourth graders.

Need an outdoor activity for your next party or family gathering? Try this wacky group relay game that's fun for adults and kids alike.

Next time you're headed out on the road with your fourth grader, try this alphabet-geography game that the whole family can play.

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

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.

Help your fourth grader design a first class postage stamp for a hero who stood up for the dignity of people from all walks of life.

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."