As Mother's Day approaches, everyone's grateful! Let your third grader assemble this special book with words from the whole family.

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

Show your little poet how to create a beautiful acrostic poem for someone special this Valentine's Day.

Help Mother's Day feel special for weeks and months ahead, while giving your child some good writing practice, too.

Let your third grader newscaster practice presentation skills with this video "card" to celebrate Dad this Father's Day!

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

Here's a fun holiday activity that will have you and your child singing, laughing, and using a thesaurus!

Refresh your third grader's understanding of idioms with this hands-on art activity that encourages him to manipulate clay to represent his favorite idiom.

Let your child step into the main character's shoes as they keep track of the setting, events, and names of characters in the story by keeping a journal.

Wax paper hearts are a unique and glittery gift for a special friend on Valentine's Day. Make wax paper hearts with your child this February.

Try adding a splash of color to editing and revising with rainbow editing.

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.

This third grade writing activity brings home the lesson: it's not only what you write that's important, but how you write it, too.

Design a special recipe book just for mom. Kid-made and packed with recipes for some of mom's favorite dishes, it's sure to be a hit on Mother's Day.

Transform your home into a theater with this fun Fall Family Theater Night activity! Invite the family to gather together to practice reading a fun fall-themed story in the format of a play.

Inspire your learner to love poems like Sonia Sotomayor by reading some poetry aloud!

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Saturn is the ringed planet in our solar system, a gas giant with rings made of ice and dust. Let's make a cool scale model with an old CD and some glitter!

Give your third grader's reading and writing skills a stretch: have her create a Care Manual for your pet the next time your family goes away.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

This writing activity will promote dialogue about racial segregation and its impact on African-Americans throughout history with your child.

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

This writing activity to get your third grader to combine the fun of poetry with the excitement of celebrating a birthday.

Help your child learn grammar the fun way with this engaging clothespin game!

It doesnât take long for flashcard drills about prefixes and suffixes to get old. Turn the learning process into a treasure hunt with this fun activity!

Start the school year off on the right foot by treating your child's new teacher to a special heart-felt surprise!

This game will help build your child's word bank as she competes with family members for the "Word of the Day" champion title.

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

Boost creativity and writing skills by having your child come up with his own Gourmet S'mores recipe!

Your child can transform an everyday sight into a persuasive writing exercise by starting with the "product" she knows best: her family!