English Language Development
YouTube has millions of videos on millions of topics. To limit your child's access to only kid-friendly material, sign them up for YouTube Kids. It's free and requires no personal information other than your email address, their first name and age. In order for your child to read captions, select Closed Captioning under videos.
MUSIC
Positive Pop Music Play List for Kids and Parents
GAMING
If your kids love video games, they might love watching YouTube gamers describe how they play games.
HOBBIES
Art for Kids Hub is a YouTube channel by a family who teach kids how to draw.
Crash Course Kids - A fun science program for kids.
National Geographic for Kids - Animals, science and adventure.
What Do We Do All Day? Science, math art, puzzles, and strategy games.
With a Palos Verdes Library District card, you can access books, videos, and services that can benefit the language learners in your family. These are a few of the materials you can use.
Rosetta Stone - a computer-assisted language learning software. The Palos Verdes Unified School District has arranged for the Library to provide Rosetta Stone to students for free (find it under Languages on this link). It is difficult to sign up, so call the library to ask for assistance: (310) 377-9584.
Through the library, sign up for Kanopy, a video streaming platform that offers classic movies, documentaries, art films, TV shows, animated programs, and Kanopy Kids, where you can find Muzzy, an American English language learning series.
Sign up for Hoopla, which allows you to borrow audiobooks, eBooks, comics, movies, TV, magazines, and music.
PBS Video Collection is a streaming service with a series of programs and documentaries from PBS.
Brainfuse offers homework help.
The library has a big children's section with books in multiple languages, storytime, and helpful librarians.
Through Libby, you can check out ebooks and audiobooks.
Your library card is your passport for all of these free materials!
The Los Angeles County Library has many materials you can borrow at no cost. Get a library card here.
Mango Languages - learn the language with this fun program.
Duolingo is an easy-to-use language learning app that can also be used on a computer, phone, or tablet.
Games to Learn English - free online language games.
ABCya - pre-K to 6th-grade games, worksheets, and activities.
ESL Games Plus - free online games, videos, and worksheets.