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Your Favorite Videos for Toddlers/Preschoolers
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Just wondering….for those of you who are very selective about what your little ones watch, what would you say are your favorite picks when you do allow videos? I was just reading in a recent post on here about the Beatrix Potter videos and am very interested in those. Any other suggestions?
Thanks,
Rachel H.
I’m not sure if I fall in the “very selective” category, but we do screen everything. My 3-yr-old watches Meet the Sight Words, Word World, Leap Frog, Between the Lions, Super Why, most Reading Rainbow videos, the Scholastic videos that take a book (or several – I think they are the Scholastic Treasury and Scholastic Storybook Treasures) and animate them, Magic School Bus, some nature/animal videos, Animal Babies, and some (gulp) Diego.
Heather
We have the Scholastic ones that animate storybooks and also the Nest videos (Bible and history). We don’t watch them often, but we enjoy them when we do.
Our favorite by far is Preschool Power – http://www.preschoolpower.com/. This is one I am willing to offer more frequently.
Christie
Leap Frog is by far my favorite for my 3.5 yr old son to watch while I’m working with the other children. I love to listen to him lean his letters, sounds, numbers ect. I also believe it has helped our children when it comes time to learn to read cause they already have there basic sounds down.
I have decided that compared to most here we must not be “selective” at all. Dh & I come from a very worldly family on both sides. That said we are more non-worldly than our parents think we should be and we monitor our tv greatly. Sunday nights we watch a movie together with pizza for dinner. I just commented to my dh that the movies in ourhome is out of control.
That said we watch things you probably wouldn’t allow looking at what everyone else here posts. So I will say I love Leap Frog and that’s my favoirte. Misty
What’s the upper age limit for Signing Time? My 6yo seems interested in that, I think. He learned the manual alphabet from Starfall.
Karen
We had a set of Boz DVDs that our kids watched over and over when they were really young. It would be considered twaddle for any child over the age of 4, I think; but the shows teach godly values and are very preschool-friendly. Our kids also enjoyed the Little Einsteins, but you have to be careful about those. One of them has a “villian” that’s a witch-y looking dwarf.
I don’t know if they would fall in the “preschool” category, but all the kids in our family LOVE Little House on the Prairie DVDs. We have seasons 1 and 2. My 2yo niece even loves them. Very wholesome and family friendly.
My 9-yr-olds will watch Signing Time, but only if I MAKE them (I find them laughing and smiling through it though so it must not be too horrid!). The 6 and 3-yr-olds love them.
I posted the Beatrix Potter (they are my favorites hands down) video suggestions and here are a few of the others we like:
Magic School Bus (as a treat), American Girl (great for American history), Little House on the Prarie done by Hallmark, Scholastic library (as a treat), and the Planet Earth videos that were done by Discovery Channel last year-they are secular so some explanations are helpful but my preschooler will watch a 50 minute segment with her older sisters if she can color or something at the same time. Our preschooler has older sisters so she probably watches things our oldest would not have been interested in at her age but these are what work for us.
About Signing Time age range – it depends. I’ll try to explain:
Baby Signing Time – for babies/young toddlers WITH their parent.
Signing Time Series One – These are generally younger kid feeling BUT cover so much vocabulary. All my kids and DH and I use them.
Signing Time Series Two – These are the newest format, less repetition per sign, and they cover a mix of earlier signs and new ones.
Story Time – this DVD has stories pointed at younger kids, but I have a hard time keeping up signing along, so older can benefit.
ABC/123 Practice Time – good practice, early elementary to mid elementary, but again, this gives me practice in fluency for fingerspeling and counting.
For perspective, my 8 year old has a sign vocabulary of several hundred words, the 5yo has probably 200, as does the 4yo. The 2yo understands about 200 but uses less than 20 himself. The 12 month old understands a few. We own most of the DVDs. You can see what signs are covered on each DVD on their site.
I can’t believe I forgot to mention Steve Green’s Hide ’em In Your Heart dvd and cd (two volumes). They are Bible verses set to music and are easily available. They run through my head all the time as situations present themselves and I can hum a little to remind my kids of something if they are arguing or letting fear in their hearts and they start singing the Bible. The videos were made in the 80’s so now my kids can see what mommy used to dress like! They also include children of different races and with special needs (our family includes both) and I don’t usually see that. Perfect for preschoolers.
Hi Rachel,
Here’s another thread on this topic, which was posted a few months ago. Incase you didn’t catch it, there were lots of video suggestions.
http://simplycharlottemason.com/scmforum/topic/need-video-suggestions#post-13553
Blessings, Heather
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