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Looking for a way to make vocab practice a little more engaging? This easy twist on the classic game is a great way to build your child's vocabulary.

There's only one word that rhymes with orange. This is bad news for poets who want to write about oranges. But what if they use word play instead?

Your fourth grader will get their mind working with this simple "Chanukah" anagram game. They will hone their language and spelling skills with this one!

Use muffin tins to create a simple, affordable and fun game to help your child practice their vocabulary!

To help your child turn a critical eye to his own school performance, and motivate him to take responsibility, make a progress portfolio!

Science fair project that helps you better understand density by comparing the relative densities of cans of Coke and Diet Coke.

Textbook studying doesn't have to be a slog. Here's an at-home activity for before your middle-schooler begins those end-of-the-chapter review questions.

Help your child create a working lung model that fills with air just like the lungs inside of his own chest when he breathes.

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.

There's more to corn than the sweet yellow kernels. This easy craft project shows you and your kid how to make pretty corn husk flowers using just a few tools.

Challenge your child to create a lipogram, or a piece of writing that omits one specific letter. This activity strengthens writing and language skills.

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

By using your child's own activity schedule, you can strengthen his understanding of elapsed time, and get him organized along the way!

Kids practice their writing composition skills as they cut and paste nutsy headlines from old newspapers and write silly articles to go with them.

A pangram is a sentence that uses all the letters in the English alphabet. In this group game kids might just learn a thing or two about word choice in writing!

If your child's paragraphs need to transition from out-of-order to organized and smooth, try this simple, real-life activity.

Help build vocabulary and foster your kid's creative side by having her write a poem all about dinosaurs!

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

In this simple science project, learn about what causes dew and what affects dew formation with a drinking glass, ice, and a soda bottle.

This 4th of July, explore fourth grade science and make some safe fireworks in your own backyard using soda pop!

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Here's a great activity that will bring out the performer in your child!

Use Martin Luther King, Jr's historical "I Have a Dream Speech" to inspire your child to write down her own dreams.

There's no better way to show mom you love her than with the tried and true breakfast in bed routine. Make whole wheat waffles along with a vase just for mom.

Kids will learn about insulation, heat conduction, and the economic benefits of energy efficient windows in this cool science fair project.

This science fair project idea develops an understanding through experimentation of which shapes are the most structurally strong.

Help your kid pack her lunch in style with a recycled show box redesigned as a zombie survival kit.

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

This science fair project idea explores whether talking to a plant will help it grow.