Here's a review of some common (and commonly confused) grammar terms, as well as a quick activity to apply them to reading and writing.

Make these homemade friendship pencils for a party or the beginning of school and have a stylish writing utensil that kids will love trading.

Learn about the CUPS strategy, a useful tool for editing children's writing.

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.

Your child can re-purpose any used (and cleaned) can into a colorful container to hold Dad's pens and pencils on his desk!

Check out this fun and easy science fair project idea on germination of a seed and learn to identify exterior and interior parts of a bean seed.

Here's an adverb acting game that will have your child hungrily, unceasingly, enthusiastically learning!

This science fair project idea explores which fruit molds the fastest.

Let your fifth grader use his wits to challenge friends to complete their labyrinthine book of mazes!

Have your kid create his own service ribbons and then write a fictional story about someone in the military who was awarded the service ribbons.

Kids write about their favorite parts of school in 100 words to celebrate 100 days of school in this 5th grade writing activity.

Your aspiring poet will be delighted to learn how to write limericks, which are funny poems that correspond to a simple rhyming structure.

This science fair project idea attempts to train a worm to complete a simple maze in order to find out if worms can learn and remember.

Forget mass-produced, store bought holiday ornaments. Your fifth grader can usher in the holidays by making his own homemade marbled Christmas balls!

Got a kid who loves fashion? Help her develop her own unique style with this tie-dye project using natural dyes.

Merge the excitement of basketball tournaments with students’ excitement about books! This activity gives kids a chance to read and form opinions about the books.

Encourage your child to explore color and its mood-altering effects by creating his own self portrait using only warm or cool colors.

Your fifth grader will have a blast sewing this plush neck pillow--and he'll sure be glad to have it on long car or airplane trips!

To help keep summer memories alive, have your fifth grader utilize their writing skills to create a summer book keepsake!

Here's a fun activity that will give your child a way to develop his sentences, making them more detailed and interesting.

Here's a great project to get your child on the right track towards writing well thought-out proposals.

Take advantage of the fact that ink and water don't mix and introduce your kid to suminagashi, a Japanese form of art.

Show your fifth grader how to make this fun vinyl robot to spruce up her walls. Itâs quick to construct and easy to remove or transfer from wall to wall.

Introduce your fifth grader to the irresistible fun of string art with this letter project!

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

Collect meteorite dust with a magnet in your very own backyard! The objective of this science fair project is to gather meteorite dust to study outer space.

Here's a fun activity that will have your child deciphering directions for sandwich making, and learning about sequence along the way!

Create a prefix-suffix flip-book and help improve decoding skills and vocabulary.

Does putting soapy water on plants help or hinder plant growth? Kids learn about greywater and how it affects plant growth in this cool science fair project.

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.