Welcome to “Movie Week” here at HomeschoolFreebieOfTheDay! All week long we’ll be featuring some fascinating, fun and educational videos for you right here. Let’s get started today with a fun grab bag of clips, cartoons and videos that both inform and entertain. Enjoy!
Wakko’s 50 State Capitols
Here’s Wakko’s catchy and popular “50 State Capitols” song from the Animaniacs cartoon. Fun!
The Presidents Song
A song to remember the names of all the Presidents of the U.S, set to the tune of Yankee Doodle.
What did Manhattan look like in 1609?
Envision New York City, but strip away the dazzling lights, skyscrapers, noisy traffic and countless passersby. What did the island of Manhattan look like before the city took shape?
Electing a US President in Plain English
A short guide to understanding the U.S. election process from CommonCraft.
The Science of Summer
Why do we have summertime? Find out in this great National Geographic video!
Lolly Lolly Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here!
Classic SchoolhouseRock song to teach you about adverbs.
Interjections!
One more classic SchoolhouseRock song…
Resonance
Grandpa John teaches us what resonance is, and how it works.
Crazy Traffic in India
Imagine heading down to the grocery on this street in India. This is like a choreographed ballet. Amazing!
and finally… Who doesn’t love singing flowers?
More tomorrow! See you then!
There weren’t any links today for the movies that I could see.
We just moved to India, and this video is an accurate portrayal of what it’s like driving in traffic every day! It’s quite something to watch from the bird’s eye view! Thanks for sharing it!
Awesome! Thanks for finding these!
I love these little movie clips. Is there any way that I can download them to my computer to have for future use when teaching my kids?
Sharon you can rightclick on the movie select embed and copy&paste email it to yourself. The link will play the movie again. Hope this helps
Shari and any others having problems viewing these videos:
You must have both Flash and javascript enabled on your system in order to view embedded videos here on our site – or anywhere else online for that matter. This is pretty basic stuff for internet users, but some folks have these disabled for one reason or another. If these are not turned on, you won’t be able to view these. Sorry! We’ll be back to non-video resources NEXT week.
- Jim E
It must be a local problem as I can’t get hold of the links either and I live in the same country as Shari!!
thank you for this compilation, we look forward to tomorrow’s~ my daughter’s favorite was the “grammar rock interjection”!
Loved these! Thank you for this.
Lucy,
Yes, I believe youtube does block some videos in different parts of the world. Sorry about that!
Jim E
I have viewed and downloaded videos from your site before, but cannot get any of these. Is there somewhere else to look. Or is there someone out there that is a techie and can advise. They sound great.
thank you!
Terri,
Did you enable Flash and javascript on your browser, as mentioned above?
These are all youtube videos, so you can just go to their site and search for them if you wish. There is no other site where these are gathered. Good luck!
- Jim E
We love your site, and most of these were great! Was anybody else disappointed with the Arthur one – making fun of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. I would think that as Presidents of the United States, they deserve more respect than this.
Really enjoyed the Hudson, India and schoolhouse rock ones! Still need to do the election one.
Amanda
Loved today’s videos. In our household songs and videos are key to education. Thanks for these great videos!