Try this brand name phonics activity to help your child build up his language arts skills.

Ask your kids to write these one-sentence "Holiday Wishes." Without realizing it, they'll be building third grade Language Arts skills.

First graders spend lots of time learning double digit numbers. Here's a "green" way to build skills and have some old time family fun, too.

Spice up your first grader's spelling practice this Presidents Day by playing the Abraham Lincoln Penny Spelling game!

Challenge your budding wordsmith to see how many words he can make out of his own name, using homemade flashcards.

Use real elastic to help your kindergartener learn to "stretch" and blend letters to read words.

Teaching your child some basic words in Spanish is a breeze at home, with this simple and fun activity that doesn't require special educational materials.

This goofy scramble book activity will bring laughs...but also some good, solid comprehension skills too!

Make learning word families more hands-on and interactive with this simple craft that has your child making "word sliders" out of paper plates.

Here's an activity that puts a new twist on a classic game. Help your first-grader create their own wooden word blocks and play sight word Jenga.

Get your child excited about measuring with this fun and easy household measurements activity.

In this activity, your child will consider the meaning of "culture" and what comprises their family's culture. They will draw pictures of aspects of their family's culture, then choose an aspect of it to explore further.

Try this fun outdoor game to improve your first grader's reading skills. This activity is perfect for summer!

Practice reading and vocabulary by making sight words into a puzzle!

Help your first grader practice sight words with this fun activity. Learn how to put together a puzzle while practicing common sight words.

In this activity, your child will make her own book of Swahili numbers filled with pictures of animals found throughout Africa.

In this arts and crafts activity, boost your kindergartener's letter recognition and reading skills by helping her create a paper word quilt.

Make a garland of paper flags representing your child's favorite countries.

Go on a storytelling adventure using your kindergartenerâs five favorite picture books.

Give your first grader reading and writing practice with this fun, practical postcard that will also help with spelling strategies.

This arts and crafts activity explores triptych painting while encouraging your preschooler to increase critical sequencing and early literacy skills.

This weather spinner will improve observation skills by encouraging children to examine and track weather details and patterns.

Teach your kindergartener a little about Mexican culture by giving him a festive, no-cook lesson in how to make "aguas frescas," or seasonal fruit drinks.

Delight your first grader by combining a reading activity with a fun "tea party" as she unscrambles cut-up words in a tea bag to form sentences and stories.

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.

Even your first grader can get involved in the lighting of the Kwanzaa Kinara with this clever flameless Kinara project!

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

Children tap into their own imaginative storytelling skills by creating and writing a richly embellished folk tale about their favorite member of the animal kingdom.

In this simple and social activity, children use size comparison skills to find objects in nature that are bigger, smaller, longer, and shorter.

Compound words get easier if kids can spot two smaller words that they already know inside. Add some fun to the process with this card game!