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Help your third grader enjoy activities learning critical skills by following step-by-step instructions and using easy-to-find materials. Play maths card games and explore themes third graders can get excited about. These activities are great for parents and educators to teach multiplication, collaborative writing, and year four science topics. Try Year four arts and craftsNext.

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Make a Dr. Seuss Story Box!

In the spirit of Seuss and all things creative and silly, celebrate reading and all that it has to offer with this fun and interactive story box.

Make Your Own Cloud!

Clouds are formed when warm and cold air meet. Here's a way for kids to see it all up close!

Homemade Submarine

Has your child ever asked you how a submarine works? Here's a simple bathtub project that will make for a hands-on answer.

Pop Bottle Science

Teach your kids about entropy with this fun, easy exercise, and teach your money to dance while you're at it!

Superhero Strength

This trick uses vertical and horizontal forces to help your child to push apart your hands apart, no matter how hard you try to keep them together!

Morse Code Messaging

Teach your child Morse code, and a little bit of history that she'll pick up in a flash!

Understanding Braille

Give your child a glimpse of how another set of students approach reading by teaching him how the blind use braille.

The Zoo Stories: Imagining Animals at Night

Here's a fun writing activity that will turn a Saturday trip to the local zoo into an all-out creativity bonanza.

Storyboarding: Using Pictures to Teach Words

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in year four. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Explore the Phases of the Moon

We all know that the Moon has different phases, but it can be hard to figure out why. Try this activity to see how the Moon's phases really work.

Make an Obstacle Course!

Kids love physical comedy, and this activity has the potential of offering up a healthy dose (while also working on balance and dexterity.)

What's a Zipper? A Writing Game

This reading comprehension activity teaches children reading in reverse: how would you teach an alien to use a zipper?

Throw a P.E. party in your own backyard that will make fitness fun!

Number Maker: A Card Game to practise Place Value

Here's a super fun game to get in some place value practise with your child!

A Rapid Rounding Game

This kinesthetic game will help your child practise rounding and get the adrenaline rushing!

Sticky Note Project

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

Build Vocabulary with Prefixes and Suffixes

Here's a fun game that you can play at home to get your child thinking about prefixes and suffixes.

Play the Bag Game: Learn Parts of Speech

Parts of speech can be a difficult and dreary concept for many kids, but you can quickly turn that feeling around with this fun game.

Race for Spelling Patterns!

In this high energy, interactive game, third graders are challenged to race, involving spelling patterns in words.

Make a Book Square!

If your third grader is having difficulty sequencing events in a story, try creating this book square.

Find the maths Fact Family

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

Knock Off Numbers for Mental maths practise!

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

Maths Solitaire for Two

Engage your third-grader in this version of the classic game and she will get lots of practise using mental maths to solve addition and subtraction problems.

Vacation Memory Book

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practise organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

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