Educational Shows for Younger Kids
Monster Math Squad – Adorable and funny! The Monster Math Squad is fun and silly while they explore math concepts like counting, measuring, sorting, shapes, and patterns.
Bo on the Go – Bo on the Go is all about getting kids to move. In the beginning minutes of the show, Bo has kids clear a space (their “Bo Zone”) in front of the TV so they can move safely. Movement is tied into a fun story with Bo and her fun dragon Dezzy.
Educational Shows for Older Kids
Boyd Matson’s Wild Chronicles – Boyd Matson reports on scientific discoveries, adventures and nature from all over the world. I especially love the way the show highlights the scientific research behind the information he is sharing. I love that Big M was able to see the research lab in Central Africa and hear the scientist talk about what his discoveries mean.
Why What Where – Why What Where takes kids’ natural tendency to question everything and finds answers. The show is engaging and covers topics like sports, science and culture. Questions like “Have you ever wondered why the sun is hot?” and “Do you know where your food comes from?” are not only fun but give the kids something to teach us over dinner. 😉
Underwater World For Kids – Underwater World for Kids explores coral reefs, hidden treasures, sea life and sunken ships. Perfect for kids who love to learn about the ocean. (This one might have me joining in… sunken ships? That sounds cool.)
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My sons each have their own tablets.
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My son uses his own laptop and iPod Touch
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My son always liked Dora which taught him Spanish words.
We’re big fans of Sid the Science Kid and SuperWhy on PBS.
We like Sesame Street.
WildKratts….my kids have learned about so many animals and different parts of the world!
Wild Kratts is a great show for children of all ages
The only ‘device’ we use is a plain old tv, but I do let my daughter watch Sesame Street. 🙂
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My children’s favorite educational show is definitely Super Why! They currently use my Husbands phone to watch videos, and an Innotab and a Leappad to play educationally related games! My youngest son is two so does not show much interest but my five year old is rather obsessed and they do share together!
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Mine like Sesame Street
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Sesame Street and Dora the Explorer are a couple of my favorites.
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My son LOVES Peg and Cat and The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That!
we like Sesame street.
My daughter loves “Super why.” I have never formally taught her letters, but she knows almost all of them from watching this show.
We all share the iPad and laptop. 🙂
Sid the Science kid is my favorite for kids
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My son, who is 4, loves Monster Math Squad and recently started watching Bo On The Go and loves it as well!
For Christmas, a friend of mine gave him a few Magic School Bus DVDs because that was the show that sparked her son’s interest in science, and then my son found more episodes on Netflix 🙂
My daughters fave educational show is WildKratts
I like the idea of limiting it to educational shows…she doesn’t own her own devices but we let her use them very occasionally.
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My son uses my iPad and iPhone.
Wild Kratts is a favourite here.
Thanks for the recs. you should also check out Rachel and the TheSchoolers for preschool aged kids. 🙂
We love Popular Mechanics for Kids and Magic School Bus in this house!
My kids love animals, so they really enjoy Wild Kratts.
We like to watch the Earth series from BBC, especially the Oceans disc.
My 4 year old daughter has really enjoyed Super Why, especially the character wonder red who does a lot of rhyming and CVC words. We have been on a break from tv for about a month, but I’m thinking of trying out that who what where show, it sound like a good one!
We are big Seasame Street fans here.
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My kids liked Sesame Street when they were young.
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Wild Kratts is the favorite show.
My favorite educational show for kids is Ruff Ruffman on PBS 🙂
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My son like the leapfrog DVDs.
We love Sid the Science Kid.
My kids always liked Cyberchase on PBS.
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they share our iphones, kindle fire, wii, and computers
My kids like the show WordWorld, as well as SuperWhy and Bubble Guppies.
My kid’s favorite educational show is Dino Dan.
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Sid the science kid.
Definitely Dora the Explorer teaches and Sesame Street
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My kids LOVED Sesame Street 🙂
I don’t have kids, but my niece has her own Android Tablet.
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My niece (I don’t have kids) owns her own iPad but our family only lets her use it to play educational games. We also limit her time with it to one hour a day if she does all her chores. She shares it with the rest of the family.
Used to use the family iPad, but recently abandoned it…
Our oldest uses an iPad and our youngest has an iPod Touch. They don’t share with each other.
Roll back to the old times with Mr Wizard
Our family is a fan pf Sesame Street
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I like Daniel Tiger.
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My sons share an xbox and my iphone.
learning should be fun
I think it’s hard to beat Sesame Street. It’s been a classic for a long time.
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i love all the pbs kids shows, my daughter’s favorite is Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood pryfamily5@gmail.com
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Our favorite educational show is Sesame Street.
The kiddos really like Sid the Science kid.
Sesame Street
I’m old-school, so Sesame Street is my fave.
My daughter grew up watching Sesame Street
My favorite is Little Einsteins – thank you.
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My daughter loves Dora the Explorer. 🙂
My kids have their own laptop, mp3 players and tablet. They share the laptop and tablet, for now and they also use the main, family computer as well 🙂 I think it’s important that kids learn to use technology at a young age so they can use if successfully and grow with it as the tech grows 🙂
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I like Wallykazam because it teaches my son new words and how to spell them.
We still enjoy Dora.
I let my son use my Ipad, but he is too young to call a device like that his own.
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My little one enjoys watching Team Umizoomi
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My children use our old iphones (not turned on) or ipods. We share!
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Sesame Street is and always will be a favorite.
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I enjoy letting my daughter watch Word World. We really limit show time, though.
they still like sesame street
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we share one tablet… no other hi-tech goodies here! we are pretty picky about what is on tv in our house. garbage in, garbage out is the motto… and so options can be limited. i remember someone saying, i don’t let people come into my house and cuss at me, take off their clothes and do crude things, or use violence- why should i let them in and do those things just because it’s “on tv”?
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my son likes super why, little einsteins and sid the science kid
My children are all adults now so I’m totally out of the loop regarding shows that are available for kids. I’m still in the era of Sesame Street.
my daughter has her own cell phone
My favorite show for kids was Bill Nye the Science Guy. He seemed the most real and easy to relate to.
My daughters favorite show is Dora The Explorer.
The Backyardigans (Nickelodeon) is a great educational show.
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My entire family shares a PC. For now…
My daughter uses our iPad mini…we all share it as a family and have passcodes, locks, and restrictions on certain things for her.
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Our kids watch Sesame Street all the time
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Our favorite educational show is Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
Sesame street all the way~ still classic
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No kids so I don’t have to share.
This looks like a great thing for families.
Thanks for the contest.
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It’s kind of old school, but Ian loves Magic Schoolbus
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My kids use an iPad that is shared by them and I 🙂
My daughter has her own Kindle Fire.
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My absolute favorite educational show for my little girl is “Baby Signing Time” It’s helping her with her words and pronunciation as well as giving her a way to communicate without being able to use some of the words yet.
My favorite has always been sesame street I loved that show as a kid and learned quite a bit while being entertained 🙂
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We let the kids watch TV and use the DVD player. On occasion we will let them use the computer supervised. They are young and don’t have their own yet, but maybe we will let them when they get older.
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My kids share the computer and ipod with the rest of the family.
They love Dora the Explorer!
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The grandkids like Sesame Street and Little Einstein.
Sesame Street is our favorite.
The all time favorite educational show is Sesame Street.
My kid has own phone and snags my iPad every chance he gets.
My nieces all share an iPad.
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They have access to ipads and often play on the smartphones
We like sesame street in our house 🙂
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our family loves dora.
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I like Sesame Street.
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They both have their own tvs, my son has an Xbox live and my daughter has a laptop and smartphone.
I know it’s old but we’ve always liked The Magic School Bus. Thank you!
Veggie Tales.
Sesame Street is our fave.
We like to watch Dora the Explorer!
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My daughters each have their own device, my preschooler a nabi and her older sister a kindle fire
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My kids have their own devices.
I agree – we love Team Umizoomi – I don’t feel too bad about letting my kids watch some TV, I’m pretty sure my 3 year old has learned most of his numbers, shapes and letters from TV. He points out crescents, semi circles and hexagons all the time, shapes I would never think a 3 year old would know! We usually choose TV over movies since TV episodes are shorter and educational.