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Original activities for families, caregivers, and educators. Explore reading, math, science, and learning skills through short practice, hands-on ideas, and conversations.

48,000 practice activities144,000 practice prompts48,000 printable sheetsPre-K through grade 12
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Grades are suggested starting points, not ability labels or formal curriculum alignment. Advanced grade 12 math includes optional introductory calculus; choose skills that match the learner’s course. Read aloud, draw, point, dictate, simplify, or add a challenge to fit the learner. Younger learners may need an adult helper.

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Each activity includes a learning goal, materials, steps, three practice prompts with explanations, and an optional extension. Browse 24 foundational activities plus 47,976 generated practice variations across 84 grade-and-skill families. Variations reuse a skill structure with changed numbers, contexts, or passages; they are practice opportunities, not 48,000 separate learning objectives. Math activities include a solving method, worked steps for every prompt, and ways to check the result. Printable sheets include the method, with worked solutions available in the optional answer key. There are no timers, accounts, or leaderboards.

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Use the subject and grade selectors above to choose review skills. With “All subjects” or “All grades” selected, games start with Math or Grade 3. Text search filters the activity catalog; it does not change game decks. Games are additional to the 48,000 practice activities.

Match & Connect

Connect four prompts with their answers or meanings. Explore equations, vocabulary, science concepts, and learning strategies.

Sort & Discover

Choose a category for six items. Compare number patterns, claims, scientific changes, and planning choices.

Step-by-Step Trail

Build a four-step path. Sequence a math strategy, a story or argument, an investigation plan, or a project routine.

No countdowns or leaderboards. Use the learning hint, retry, or start a new round. An adult can read or model the game for younger learners. Game progress stays in this page’s memory only.

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Learning together can be flexible

Start with a connection

Ask what interests the learner. Choose one short activity, name its purpose, and leave room for questions. A learner may watch, point, speak, draw, or pass.

Model, practice, revisit

Show one example and explain your thinking. Try the next example together, then invite an independent attempt with support. Return to a skill later rather than treating one score as a conclusion.

Make access part of the plan

Read prompts aloud, use large drawings, reduce visual clutter, or describe symbols. Adapt movement and materials. Avoid small objects for children who may put them in their mouths, and supervise hands-on activities.

Notice the process

Ask “How did you work that out?” and “What could we try next?” Use errors to explore a strategy. Grade bands are flexible; persistent learning concerns are a reason to talk with the learner’s teacher or qualified support team.

Private practice: Answers and completion counts last only while this page is open. This hub does not send learning responses to our team or save a learner profile. Printing or saving a PDF creates a copy you control.

Activity guides for a helper

Prefer to start with the original collection away from the screen? These original hands-on guides remain available without opening a practice activity.

Read the 24 foundational learning guides

Sound-start safari

Listen for the first sound in familiar spoken words.

Materials: Three familiar objects or drawings; paper.

  1. Say moon slowly and notice the first sound, /m/.
  2. Find or draw another familiar thing that begins with that sound.
  3. Take turns choosing a new sound. An adult can say the words aloud.

Talk about it: How did your mouth move at the start of the word?

A rhyming picnic

Hear matching word endings.

Materials: Your voice; paper for optional drawings.

  1. Say cat and hat aloud. Listen to their endings.
  2. Imagine packing a silly picnic with rhyming words.
  3. Invite the learner to supply a real or invented rhyming word.

Talk about it: What part of the two words sounds the same?

Follow the story path

Use time words to sequence a short text.

Materials: Three small pieces of paper.

  1. Read: Nia puts soil in a pot. Next, Nia adds a seed. Last, Nia waters the soil.
  2. Draw each event on a separate piece of paper.
  3. Put the pictures in order and retell the story using first, next, and last.

Talk about it: Which words helped you follow the order?

Sentence studio

Recognize complete sentences and end punctuation.

Materials: Paper and pencil, or dictate to a helper.

  1. Say a sentence about something in the room.
  2. Name who or what it is about and what is happening.
  3. Write it with a capital letter and an appropriate ending mark.

Talk about it: Does your sentence tell a complete idea?

Read between the clues

Support an inference with evidence from a short passage.

Materials: Paper and pencil.

  1. Read: Jo left a wet umbrella beside the door and shook water from a coat. Jo asked for a towel.
  2. Separate what the text states from what you infer.
  3. Write one inference and underline two clues that support it.

Talk about it: Which detail supports your idea most strongly?

Word workshop

Use context and word parts to explore meaning.

Materials: Paper or a dictionary with adult support.

  1. Read: The tiny seedling was fragile, so we handled it gently.
  2. Use nearby words to suggest what fragile means.
  3. Try re-, un-, and -less with familiar words and discuss how the meaning changes.

Talk about it: Which nearby words helped you understand fragile?

Count a small collection

Match one number word to each object.

Materials: Up to 10 large, safe objects; avoid small objects with young children.

  1. Arrange five objects in a row. Touch or point to each once while counting.
  2. Move them into a circle and count again.
  3. Compare the total before and after moving the objects.

Talk about it: Did moving the objects change how many there were?

Shape detectives

Describe simple two-dimensional shapes by their sides.

Materials: Paper shapes or drawings.

  1. Draw a triangle, square, and circle.
  2. Trace each outline with a finger or point along it.
  3. Compare straight sides, corners, and curved boundaries.

Talk about it: How can you recognize a triangle when it is turned sideways?

Number builders

Connect tens and ones to two-digit numbers.

Materials: Paper strips for tens and drawn dots for ones.

  1. Represent 24 with two tens and four ones.
  2. Trade one ten for ten ones and check that the amount stays the same.
  3. Build a new number and explain your representation.

Talk about it: How do the digits tell you about tens and ones?

Community garden math

Choose addition or subtraction for a short story.

Materials: Paper, pencil, or drawn counters.

  1. Imagine a garden with 7 seedlings and draw them.
  2. Add 5 more seedlings; then cross out 3 that are moved elsewhere.
  3. Explain each change using an equation and a drawing.

Talk about it: What in the story tells you whether to add or subtract?

Equal groups in the neighborhood

Connect multiplication and division to equal groups.

Materials: Paper and pencil or drawn circles.

  1. Draw 4 baskets with 3 apples in each.
  2. Count by groups and write a multiplication equation.
  3. Redistribute 12 drawn apples equally into 3 baskets.

Talk about it: What stays equal in your drawing?

Fraction kitchen on paper

Compare equal parts of the same-sized whole.

Materials: Paper rectangles and pencil; no food needed.

  1. Draw two equal-sized rectangles. Split one into halves and one into quarters.
  2. Shade one half in the first and two quarters in the second.
  3. Compare the shaded amounts and explain what equal parts means.

Talk about it: Why do the wholes need to be the same size for this comparison?

Living, once living, or never living?

Use evidence to distinguish living things from objects.

Materials: Drawings of a plant, rock, cat, and fallen leaf.

  1. Look at each drawing and describe what you notice.
  2. Talk about how living things grow and need resources.
  3. Compare a growing plant, a rock, and a fallen leaf that was once part of a living plant.

Talk about it: Can something move without being alive?

Weather window watch

Describe and record observable weather.

Materials: Paper and a safe indoor view of the outdoors.

  1. Look outside from a safe indoor place.
  2. Draw what you notice about clouds, rain, wind, or sunlight.
  3. Repeat another day and compare your records. Do not look directly at the sun.

Talk about it: What did you observe, and what are you wondering?

A plant-care plan

Identify resources a typical green plant needs.

Materials: A plant to observe or a drawing; paper.

  1. Observe a plant or drawing without tasting or handling unknown plants.
  2. Draw symbols for light, water, air, and room for growth.
  3. Create a care plan with an adult and observe changes over time.

Talk about it: How could you tell whether your care plan needs adjusting?

Matter around us

Describe solids, liquids, and gases with familiar examples.

Materials: Paper; optional room-temperature water in a sealed cup.

  1. Describe a wooden block, water in a cup, and air in a balloon using words or drawings.
  2. Compare whether each keeps a fixed shape or takes the shape of a container.
  3. Keep this activity at room temperature; no heating, tasting, or mixing is needed.

Talk about it: What changes when liquid water moves to a different-shaped cup?

Design a fair paper test

Change one factor while keeping others the same.

Materials: Two paper strips; a few large identical objects as weights; adult support.

  1. Plan a comparison of two paper bridge shapes over the same short gap.
  2. Use the same paper size, support distance, and type of weights; change only the fold.
  3. Predict, test gently with an adult, record results, and discuss limits. Do not use fragile or elevated supports.

Talk about it: What did you change, and what did you keep the same?

Habitat connections

Connect an organism to food, water, shelter, and space.

Materials: Paper and pencil; optional local nature book.

  1. Choose a familiar local animal and draw its habitat.
  2. Add a possible source of food, water, shelter, and space.
  3. Imagine one resource changes. Discuss possible effects without assuming a single certain outcome.

Talk about it: Which connections could change if one resource becomes scarce?

First, then, next

Practice describing a small everyday routine.

Materials: Three blank cards or drawings.

  1. Choose a neutral routine such as preparing to draw.
  2. Draw three steps: gather paper, choose a pencil, begin drawing.
  3. Take turns explaining the order. Change the steps if they do not fit your needs.

Talk about it: Which step helps you get ready for the next one?

Helpful words to try

Practice requesting a turn or asking for help.

Materials: A shared drawing tool or an imagined situation.

  1. Use a fictional scene: two characters want the same crayon.
  2. Model a request such as May I use it after you?
  3. Try another response and talk about taking turns, boundaries, and asking an adult for help.

Talk about it: How can a character ask without demanding?

Build a learning-and-break plan

Plan a short work period and an accessible break.

Materials: Paper and pencil; optional visual timer with no pressure to race.

  1. Choose one small task and describe what a first step looks like.
  2. Plan a brief pause that fits the learner, such as stretching, stillness, or getting water with permission.
  3. Try the plan and ask what to change. A timer is optional, not a test.

Talk about it: How will you know that the plan needs a change?

Listen, retell, check

Practice listening and checking understanding.

Materials: Two people or an adult reading both roles.

  1. One fictional character describes how to build a paper house.
  2. The other retells the directions in their own words.
  3. The speaker checks the retelling and clarifies a detail.

Talk about it: How did checking change the conversation?

More than one next step

Generate and compare possible solutions to a fictional learning problem.

Materials: Paper and pencil.

  1. Imagine a group project with missing materials.
  2. List at least three possible responses without judging them yet.
  3. Compare feasibility, fairness, and safety; choose one response and a backup.

Talk about it: What information might change your choice?

Question the claim

Distinguish a checkable claim from a preference.

Materials: Paper and two invented claims; optional adult-supported research.

  1. Compare: Our library opens at 9 a.m. and This is the best library ever.
  2. Identify which statement can be checked using opening hours.
  3. Choose a reliable source and ask when the information was updated.

Talk about it: What evidence would help you check the statement?

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