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Learning to identify and categorize different geometric shapes is a big goal for early learners. And your neighborhood is the perfect place to start!

Help your kindergartener review shapes - and build early reading skills - with this creative book project.

Make a bear cave for your child to play and explore, learning about bears and winter hibernation.

Turn learning fractions into a pizza party in this fun second grade math game.

Learning to count change can be tough! Help your child become a master money-counter with this simple game.

Pump up the learning level of your kindergartener's summer break by playing patriotic bingo when July 4th rolls around.

This activity is a fun way to "go fishing" with your preschooler, while learning about the concepts of freezing and melting.

Learn how to count in Spanish. Your child will practice her numbers and build her reading skills while learning a bit about Latino culture along the way.

Creating number patterns with pencil and paper can be dull, but creating hopscotch pattern can bring exciting math learning!

Is your third grader bombing around on a bike these days? Here's a way to put all that fun time together with some math learning, too.

Have your student draft a blueprint for a haunted house, and trick (or treat) them into learning about geometry in the process.

Ordinary drinking straws are fun for drinking juice and even for spitballs when you're not looking, but also fabulous for learning first grade math.

Does your kid have a stash of sweets left over from Halloween? Turn that pile of candy into a learning opportunity with this sorting and categorizing activity.

Does your child love learning about dinosaurs? Does he like digging around in search of hidden treasures? In this fun activity he'll do both!

These bean bag games are a fun and inexpensive way to keep your first grader learning! Work on social skills, coordination, math, or even spelling!

Want to boost math and science learning? Take a bug expedition and give your first grader practice observing and charting what they see.

First graders are learning basic addition and subtraction math facts. Practice in the sandbox with this fun outdoor math activity!

Have a lot of loose buttons lying around the house? Here are four ways to turn those loose buttons into an easy and positive learning experience. Button up!

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.

Using nothing fancier than old milk cartons and popsicle sticks, create a village full of fun learning for your kindergarten math student.

Show your kindergartener how to count to 100 by tens, and he'll get an adorable cheerio necklace in the process!

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

Sharing can be a challenge, and division doubly so! Practice halving numbers in this competitive card game.

First grade math includes lots of work with two-digit numbers. Here's an activity to help kids practice recognizing and sequencing numbers from 1-30.

Take math off the page and into the real world. This simple game gives kindergarten kids hands-on practice with basic addition.

Put numbers and letters together -- key kindergarten math and reading skills -- while creating a marvelous game piece for outdoor play!

In this activity, students build a house of sticks, just like the second little pig in the classic story, The Three Little Pigs. Then, they program an educational robot to push down the house, much like the wolf who “blows the house down.”

The Christmas Addition Tree is a great way to get kids actively involved in math practice through art projects over the holiday break.

Here's a place mat your second grader can create, based on the classic frontier tradition of patchwork quilting.

This fun shape game is like Twister...with a twist!