Making Bread: A Tasty Way to Do Science
Making bread provides opportunities to measure, question and observe.
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Promote science at home
How you can help at home: Here are tips for helping your child engage in scientific thinking.
Write a Recipe
Writing out a recipes is a fun way to connect language arts skills to daily life for second- and third-graders.
Handwriting Cues
How you can help at home: Reinforce proper letter formation by writing lists and notes together with your second-grader.
Make a self-portrait
How you can help at home: Making a self-portrait is an engaging art project for your child.
Beach Ball Math
How you can help at home: Try this game to help your child with basic addition and subtraction facts.
Math's a beach
Learn math by playing catch.
Putting the "fun" in "fungus"
Encourage your child to develop skills of observation with this moldy experiment.
Where in the World?
How you can help at home: Use a laminated map to help your child learn where current events are taking place and build social studies skills.
Create a comic book
How you can help at home: Your child will learn to create his own family comic book. This activity builds writing and computer skills.
