Give your budding young observers a chance to discover simple machines at use in their own home.

This activity is a great starting point for practicing mental math because it is quick, easy and involves only simple addition facts.

Make math fun for your child by turning it into a game and challenging him to beat the calculator with this cool math race!

Which music genres have the fastest tempos? The slowest? This experiment determines if there's a relationship between beats per minute in a song and its genre.

Get your little traveler ready for a âround-the-world adventure! Kids will get a geography lesson, writing practice and a great appreciation for traveling.

Picking words out can be tricky. In this early reading activity, your child will place letter markers on a grid to make words appear out of the jumble.

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Celebrate the blooming season with your kid by showing him how to make a magical spring mosaic out of all natural materials!

Find sums of 10 in this fun first-grade math card game that helps kids build addition skills. Help your child use critical thinking skills to find the sums.

Representing the story in a visual way makes it easier for your child to compare the traits of various characters.

How does your ghost feel? No, no, we're not wondering if it's happy or sad, joyful or mad. We want to know your ghost's texture!

This recipes is so easy your child gets to be master chef for this kitchen activity. He'll bake peanut butter banana oatmeal cookies that happen to be vegan!

For most second graders, a good secret code is just about irresistible. Here's one that builds math facts while you're at it!

Play this daily money game with your 2nd grade child to help his math skills.

This hands-on activity practices skip counting, a key first grade math skill. But it's silly fun!

In this activity, your child will reference Matisse and also learn about patterns.

It's important to be able to add and subtract quickly and accurately, and this activity is the perfect way to practice.

How many ways can Christmas fun "add up"? Download this fourth grade math worksheet and find out!

Your child will "catch" snowballs with each correct math equation she can answer correctly. If she solves a problem correctly, she gets to keep the snowballs.

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.

Practice of math facts is usually limited to drill sheets and flashcards. But kids are more likely to tune in to math facts if practice is presented as a game!

A hands-on guessing game that teaches kids to recognize different coins. First graders will learn their money and their math at the same time!

To help your child learn how to use a thermometer, try this temperature collecting activity at home.

This science fair project uses paper chromatography to investigate whether black, brown, orange, and purple are pure colors or mixtures of other colors.

Got a shoelace? Got a kindergartener? Help your child learn to use the number line by creating one out of a lace.

This project commemorates the milestone of completing the first 100 days of school, while giving your child a manipulative to practice counting to 100.

Here is a fun at-home physical activity that encourages movement while also working on literacy or math skills!

Help your second grader to a better understanding of how to count and represent money with age old game of tic-tac-toe.

Help your child apply his math skills the next time you cook a family meal similar to one you'd buy at a restaurant.

Use a digital camera and some simple drawing supplies to help your kindergartener make a personalized letter-sound book.