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25 Fun Learning Apps and YouTube Videos for Little Learners

May 10, 2020 | Leave a Comment
This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, please see my full disclosure policy.

Learning apps and YouTube videos have exploded since I started homeschooling my kids 25 years ago. Now that I’m helping to homeschool Munch King in preschool I’m keeping a list of my favorite learning apps and YouTube videos to use with him.

Moreover, a lot of the learning apps and YouTube videos which I rounded up here can be used for kids up to third grade, but there are some you can use for older kids too.

25 Fun Learning Apps and YouTube Videos for Little Learners

Because Munch King has limits on screen time, I want apps and YouTube videos at my fingertips when we need him to keep learning. Whether you need grandma to entertain the kids when you’re away or you’re taking care of a little or the bigs, you’ll want to save this list.

Additionally, not all apps are educational so I’ll update the list as I find more learning apps and YouTube videos that are worth saving.

Educational Apps For Young Learners

You may want all the DragonBox apps. You’ll love grabbing these even for your older learners. “DragonBox is an award-winning series of educational math apps that are designed to engage and excite children about learning.” Yep, math can be exciting.

Tinybop is another one where you’ll want all the apps.

Plants Tinybop

Reading Eggs. Prepare your child for learning the fun way with a great range of fun interactive mathematics and reading apps specially designed for early learners.

Reading Eggs

Award-winning learn-to-code platform for kids, ages 5-9

codeSpark Academy is the most used home coding program for kids 5-9! 

SnailBob2 The puzzle everyone loves.

SnailBob

Your kids will love this series of apps MarcoPolo Learning, Weather, and World School

MarcoPolo Ocean
MarcoPolo Arctic
 

Khan Academy Kids.

Children can learn reading, language, writing, math, social-emotional development, problem-solving skills, and motor development.

Khan Academy Kids
Mammals Tinybop
Space Tinybop

Phonics With Phonograms by Logic of English. A phonogram app that drills all the sounds for each phonogram.

Logic of English

Duck Duck Moose is another one where you want just about all the apps. Fish school, Word Wagon, Park Math, Moose Math, Draw and Tell and More!

Fish School – 123 ABC for Kids

Skybrary is a carefully curated, ever expanding interactive library of digital books and video explorations designed to engage young readers and foster a love of learning.

Skybrary by Levar Burton

Educational YouTube Videos for Kids

The Dr. Bincos Show. From volcanoes to carnivorous plants your kids will be sure to find something educational.

The Brave Wilderness. “The Brave Wilderness Channel is your one stop connection to a wild world of adventure and amazing up close animal encounters!“

Homeschool Pop. “Our goal is to make fun, exciting learning videos for elementary students. We are called Homeschool Pop because our lead narrator and writer is a homeschool dad. (Pop is a fun way to say “dad”).”

We Love Puzzles. “We’re two sisters that, with their parents, make amazing puzzles that are both cool and educational! We often use fun materials such as Play-Doh and glitter to create our puzzles making them even more interesting and fun!”

Maddi Geography TV. “Hi, I’m Maddi and I am here to teach you and your kids fun facts about countries around the world. Every week I do a video about a different country focusing on geography, the food people in that country enjoy, as well as the indigenous animals. At the end of each video there is also a section about quirky and weird facts about that country.”

Kratts Creatures Different featured animals.

Operation Ouch. “Operation Ouch is packed with incredible facts about the human body and fronted by identical twins Dr.Chris and Dr. Xand van Tulleken who experiment and explore their way through the fascinating world of medicine and biology. This channel will de-mistify hospitals for younger viewers.”

Science Max. “Have you ever done a science experiment and wondered “What would this be like if it were HUGE?” Welcome to Science Max, the exciting new series that turbocharges all the science experiments you’ve done at home.”

Jack Hartmann Kids Music Channel. “Our songs for kids and educational videos will help your children learn counting, numbers, reading and language skills, nursery rhymes, science, physical fitness, dance and movement.”

Kids Learning Tube. “Kids Learning Tube educates kids through music and animation in a fun and unique approach to learning.”

Online Learning Resources

Peep and the Big Wide World “Peep and the Big Wide World gives wings to the innovative idea of teaching science to preschoolers.”

WordWorld. “Welcome to WordWorld, the first preschool series where words are truly the stars of the show! Come along for an adventurous romp into a vibrant world of words with the WordFriends—animals whose bodies are made up of the letters that spell the word they are.”

Caillou – WildBrain. “Meet Caillou, the lovable 4 year old with a big imagination! Caillou experiences all the wonders of being a child that audiences around the world can relate to; first day of school, caring for a pet, learning a new sport or spending time with family.”

Hooked on Phonics.

Have Fun Teaching. “HFT offers free worksheets, songs, videos, and resources for teachers, parents and kids!“

These fun apps and YouTube videos are great ways to keep your little learners engaged, but also entertained and are educational.

25 Fun Learning Apps and YouTube Videos for Little Learners

Look at these other resources:

  • How to Teach Homeschool Preschool From the Inside Out (And Preschool Skills)
  • How to Know What A Homeschooled Child Should Learn Yearly?
  • BEST Curriculum by Homeschoolers for Homeschoolers
  • How To Get Your First Homeschooled Child Reading
  • Awesome Reading Aloud Tracking Time Homeschool Form
  • How Early Should I Begin Homeschooling My First Child? (and checklist)
  • The BEST Resources for Teaching Art at Home (K to Gray)

Did you find or two you can use now?

Hugs and love ya,


Leave a CommentFiled Under: Teach Homeschool Preschool Tagged With: apps, elementary, homeschool preschool, online learning, preschool, YouTube

3 Ways to Choose the BEST Online Homeschool Curriculum (Psst! Don’t Miss Black Friday!)

November 21, 2017 | 2 Comments
This post may contain affiliate links. For more information, please see my full disclosure policy.

I’m PROUD to partner with Time4Learning. However, Time4Learning did not pay for this post. All opinions of any curriculum are always mine, but I wanted you to know that I’m proud to have Time4Learning as a sponsor.


In the past 10 years, it seems like online homeschool curriculum has popped up and taken over the homeschool market.

We’ve never had so many choices in choosing online homeschool curriculum as we do now.

When I chose to use Time4Learning,  I had a lens through which I chose online curriculum and it worked.

ONLINE HOMESCHOOL CURRICULUM THAT ROCKS

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Sharing 3 ways to choose the best online homeschool curriculum, I want you to look past all the blinking beacons on websites and look at these tried and true tips.

One/ Flexibility. Don’t underestimate the value of it.

One of the reasons I started homeschooling was to decide when and how my kids would learn.

During my homeschool journey, I’ve experienced many exhilarating planned adventures like living overseas in South America and trekking the Amazon Rain Forest and many unplanned sad and stressful times like time spent in the ICU as my husband recovered.

I needed laid out lesson plans and I needed a variety of grade levels to choose from. It’s why I chose Time4Learning.

I don’t want to have to check in with a teacher like an online school.

I simply did not need the stress of answering to the schedule of another person.

Second/ Curriculum on the go. 

Until I moved overseas, I didn’t appreciate the value of curriculum on the go.

When I learned that we could take only two suitcases each for our move overseas, I almost passed out.

My shoes (ha) wouldn’t fit in two suitcases let alone our homeschooling books.

Oh sure. We could have paid thousands of dollars to ship my physical curriculum or I could look for a PreK to 12th grade curriculum to cover multiple grades. That’s another reason I love  Time4Learning.

You simply sign up and sign in each day and follow a routine set up for you.

Third/ Know the difference between choosing online curriculum and an online school.

When you first start homeschooling, you may think you want an online school.

Soon, you realize that it’s just public school at home. Look at my tips The Great Homeschool Hoax – Public School At Home.

You move to another phase of your journey, the one you stay at longer and learn then what you really need is curriculum help and not an online school.

For me, what I really wanted was NOT another school telling me what to do, but homeschool curriculum laid out in an easy way for me to use.

That is one BIG reason I love, love Time4Learning.  It’s not a school but curriculum.

It’s not like those online schools designed to stress you out because they want your kids to test, meet with you in a parent/teacher conference, and dictate what my kids should learn.

I’ll decide if I need that for my kids since I’m the one with them each day.

There are many online schools, but not many all online homeschool curriculum providers for Prek to 12th grade that have been around for a long time and understand homeschoolers.  Because Time4Learning is not public school at home, it’s not offered to public schools.

It’s just what it says, online homeschool curriculum that does not bring public school to home just because you chose online homeschool curriculum, but supports you when you need help.

You’ll love how easy Time4Learning makes it for you to teach and guess what?

You can try them out because for Black Friday they have a super nifty deal. It’s a BOGO. Buy one month, get the 2nd free!

HURRY- BOGO November 24 to 27 or Mark Your Calendar

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Have you tried Time4Learning? What do you like best about online homeschool curriculum?

Also, look at these other super helpful tips.

  • Digital Homeschool Curriculum – Big Ol’ List 
  • 31 Day Free Homeschool Boot Camp

Hugs and love ya,

2 CommentsFiled Under: Avoid the Homeschool Blues, Be an Exceptional Homeschool Teacher, Begin Homeschooling, Choose Curriculum Tagged With: curriculum, digital, homeschoolcurriculum, online learning, onlinewriting, sciencecurriculum

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