skill-building activities
Use these resources, skill-building activities, and expert advice to help your child excel in his academics.
- Top 10 Ways to Improve Reading Skills
- 10 Backyard Science Activities
- 11 Everyday Ways to Learn Math While Having Fun
- 10 Everyday Ways to Keep Your Child Reading While Having Fun
- Paper Tower
- 10 Everyday Ways to Explore Science While Having Fun
- Energy from the Sun
- Balloon Fun
- Young Map Makers
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears retold by Jan Brett
- Volcano Experiment
- Egg Drop
- Friendly Rainbows
- Benefits of Reading as a Teen
- Divided Earth
- Bird-Watching
- Flashlight Fun
- Cloud Watching
- Teaching Kids About Roman Numerals
- 15-Minute Reading Activities
- The Greenhouse Effect Experiments
- Brainstorming Activity
- When I Grow Up
- I Love You Because…
- Bottled Egg
- The Three Little Pigs retold by James Marshall
- Secret Message
- How to Get Your Kids to Love Math
- It Felt Like...
- Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
- Flower Tinting
- Muddied Waters
- Shopping Math
- Every Number Counts
- Math Codes
- Household Road Signs
- Have a Heart
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
- The Using Your Senses Game
- Fun with Weights
- Fill in the Blanks
- Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey
- Stargazing
- Sharpen Basic Skills in the Summer
- Read My Lips
- Do-It-Yourself "Ologies"
- Go West, Young Kids
- The Gravity of the Situation
- Sum of Their Parts
- Father’s Day Activities
- Little Cloud by Eric Carle
- Corduroy by Don Freeman
- Tornado in a Bottle
- Logical-Mathematical Gift-Boosting Activities
- City Guide
- Secret Mathematical Formulas
- Great Entertaining
- Skill Building Through Play
- Father’s Day Letter
- Peace at Last by Jill Murphy
8 Printable Thank-You Cards for Teachers
