Links

Language
Multilingual Children's Association

Homeschooling
CBeebies BBC for Kids
PBS Kids
Starfall ABCs and learning to read. My kids love this site.
Brainpop Not completely free but great resources. I haven't paid for a membership yet but it is on my list of homeschool items to buy.
4kids2play Preschool site, multilingual.
Kidzone Printables, activities, worksheets.
North Pole We don't do Santa here but this has tons of cute Christmas stuff for those who do. For those who don't, like us, but still celebrate Christmas, just edit out the Santa stuff and you've got a great resource for Christmas related things.
Family Fun Christmas Printables
Literacy Center Early learning in four different languages!
Gateway to the Internet From BestHomeschooling.org, a list of homeschool links.

Free Kids' E Books

Reading Bringing Up Baby Bilingual led me to a post about Tumblebooks. The cost led to me to a search on more e books. So with little ado, here's a listing of some (free!) e-books for kids!

Children's Storybooks Online Mainly English books.

Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project Old books and the site is volunteer driven. The books have been scanned in and many have translations.

ICDL International Children's Digital Library Lots of books in many languages.

StoryPlace: The Children's Digital Library Animated stories and activities.

BookPALS StoryLine Online Books read by celebrities. Video of the actors reading the books, words show up on the books.

Bookhive Listen to stories by great storytellers.

Free Educational Songs

As a child I always loved "educational" songs. Really I had a deep love for music in all it's forms and educational music was an extension of that. Learning the fifty states in a song was a thrill. So now that I'm homeschooling my children I'm always on the lookout for new educational songs. I've recently found a great site. You can't save the songs but it has a variety of topics and clear, well-sung lyrics. Kids Know It

Another great site is Kiddie Records . It has songs taken from old kids' records and made into mp3 format. I've yet to check out all they have to offer but it seems like an excellent source for hard to find kids' songs of old.

Songs for Teaching is another great site. It has the lyrics for the songs so if you know the tune you can sing the song. As an added bonus they have songs in German (and a few other languages). Unfortunately they don't offer the full songs for free. You can either buy the cd or buy it in mp3 format. I've yet to buy any songs from them so I'm not sure of the quality but we like to listen to the clips.

NIEHS has patriotic songs, songs from movies, and children's songs along with the lyrics.


Kindersite is a page of songs from different sites. Some educational, some just fun songs.

Have Fun Teaching has just a few songs but they are originals that I have yet to find elsewhere.

Music Moz is a bunch of links to music sites. Some are good, some not so good but it is a good resource all the same.

Mama Lisa's World has a great collection of nursery rhymes and songs from around the world. It is the biggest collection of various language songs that I've run across to date.