The chalkboard surface on this desk globe tempts kids to grab their chalk and start mapping out their next adventures.

Caring for ourselves and others can build connections and a greater sense of love. In this activity, your child will discuss what it means to be caring and will demonstrate care through drawing and by performing two caring and kind deeds.

Here is a way to help your first grader keep track of the books she has read, and also help her develop some critical thinking skills.

This reading activity combines some of the most common sight words with a pictograph puzzle that's sure to keep your kindergartener engaged.

Better than any store bought Father's Day card, this touching keepsake lets your child give Dad a peek into their relationship from her point of view.

Use fun and fuzzy pipe cleaners to help your child learn how to form important letters that make up the words that are the building blocks of phonics.

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Explore the scientific concept of capacity by seeing how many pennies you boat can hold before it sinks!

This simple bookmaking activity will introduce and reinforce alphabet and number recognition skills that have been taught at home or learned in preschool.

Once readers know the individual sounds letters make, they need to learn how to blend them and how to break them apart. This activity will help them practice.

Have some fun with your first or second grader, looking for creative ways that 100 cents can make $1.00!

Get your child math and science savvy with this fun outdoor classification game. Using chalk, your child will classify what she sees in the natural world.

Here's a science activity to help your child investigate how seeds are designed to travel.

Rhyming helps kids better understand word structure. This silly game transforms rhymes into a mystery bag guessing game.

This string a necklace arts activity teaches first grade readers to look for a story's beginning, middle, and end.

This is a simple, nutritious food kids love for snacks and lunches all year.

Study the life cycle of the common blowfly as it relates to forensic investigation. Record the first time you see flies, maggots, and eggs.

Geared toward kindergarten and first grade learners, The Weather Inside is a fun activity to help help children understand and process their emotions in a healthy way.

In this activity, students will draw a picture of the things they like to listen to at home using their superpower sense of mindful listening.

Help your kindergartener learn to manage a telephone with this homemade keyboard that also helps kids practice letters and numbers.

Help your child understand that letters, put in a certain order, make words. In this fun activity they'll get to make their own puzzle, and practice letters, too!

What's the first letter? Play this game with your first grader the next time you read together, and watch her reading skills grow as she climbs the levels.

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.

Here's a motivational kit that lets your emerging reader know you're with him for the whole wild ride.

It's a race against time to see how quickly she can color match and correctly place all of the water beads!

This is a fun and inexpensive project and it's a great way for your child to build basic geometry skills, like shape recognition and pattern/angle familiarity.

Combine kids' love of scavenger hunts with consonant blends to create a fun game that's perfect for everything from birthday parties to rainy days at home.

This time-based word builder is the perfect way to boost your child's vocabulary. Mix and match letters to see how many words she can come up with!

Here's a science and nature activity to help your kindergartener get outdoors and learn about the structure of leaves.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways ... on my eight limbs and eight hearts!