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Educational DVDs for age 4 pre-schooler - help please!

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daddywillbehomesoon · 08/07/2010 18:32

We have recently moved to South Africa and get very little educational stuff on the tv. DS1 is turning 4 next week and catches onto ideas and principles pretty easily. We have started (slowly) jolly phonics with him which he enjoys, he is learning to tell the time, good with numbers and counting. We have some quiet time when he gets home from pre-school each day and I'm struggling to find stuff for him to watch.

We get numberjacks here on the bbc channel, but that's pretty much it in terms of educational stuff, and he's already pretty much outgrown that.

Can anybody help with some ideas for good interesting educational dvds that we could get our hands on to help.

My real concern is that we will be back in the UK when he is 7, he'll be in the UK system and with other children who have been at school for a good couple of years, and he will only have just been at school here, and only just learning numbers, literacy etc, and he will be vastly behind. The latest research here now says that SA kids aren't at a comparative level to UK kids until they're 9 - not something we want to put the dc through.

Sorry long winded but can anyone help???

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luciemule · 08/07/2010 22:16

You could ask the LEA he'll be going to/buy them privately for Home Ed packs to enable him to c arry on until you return back to England. That's what Travelling families have when they're not based at a school for some months of the year.

For now though, if you can access the internet, I would look at the Cbeebies website - they have a lovely phonics programme called Alpha Blocks which is fab and there are lots of games and things he can do on there.

www.poissonrouge.com is great too. You can do it in French and English.

How about buying some Kumon books for his relevant age at the time to boost his numeracy and literacy as he gets older.

Dysgu · 08/07/2010 22:30

Something I have just been told about online that has a free trial at the moment is readingeggs.com

Sorry, I haven't actually done much other than watch the open information but thinking it looks quite fun and might be worth you looking at.

daddywillbehomesoon · 09/07/2010 08:10

thanks everyone - great ideas!

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Primavera · 02/08/2010 17:23

Hi, can you sign up for the UK BBC Iplayer? We pay a monthly subscription and watch all UK channels as we are abroad too, CBeeBies programmes all seem to have educational themes (great for us also to watch UK tv). We look at games on the kids' websites too - every character seems to have their own website these days. Contact me if you want the link for Iplayer.

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