Schoolhouse Rock, Electric Company and Sesame Street Instant Videos

If you know the preamble to the United States Constitution by heart, chances are, you learned it from watching Schoolhouse Rock as a kid. Now you can share those terrific, fun, painless learning videos with your own kids as Amazon Instant Videos!

Whether your school-aged kids need to master their multiplication tables, basic grammar, or even scientific and social studies concepts, Schoolhouse Rock has made it fun and easy to learn with their humorous, musical videos on these topics and more. From Amazon:

It’s a good bet that any American kid growing up in the ’70s or ’80s learned some elementary lesson from the seminal musical series Schoolhouse Rock!. Airing from 1973 to 1984 (and often revived), the ABC Saturday morning shorts effortlessly introduced kids to grammar, science, multiplication, money, and American history–three minutes at a time…The four creators developed the series slowly, a welcome diversion from their advertising agency jobs, and ended up taking home four Emmys over the years. –Doug Thomas

Schoolhouse Rock Vol. 1 ($1.99/episode, $17.99 for all 11 episodes) – includes Three Is A Magic Number, Conjunction Junction, Verb: That’s What’s Happening, Lolly Lolly Lolly Get Your Adverbs Here, The Preamble, and 6 more.

Schoolhouse Rock Vol. 2 ($1.99/episode, $17.99 for all 11 episodes) – includes multiplication lesson videos for numbers 0, 2, 5, 8 and 9, Unpack Your Adjectives, and 5 more.

Schoolhouse Rock Vol. 3 – ($1.99/episode, $17.99 for all 11 episodes) – includes Elbow Room, Them Not So Dry Bones, The Body Machine, Sufferin’ Till Suffrage, and 7 more.

Schoolhouse Rock Vol. 4 – ($1.99/episode, $17.99 for all 11 episodes) – this collection is all about eco-awareness, and includes You Oughta Be Savin’ Water, The Rainforest, Solar Power to the People, Don’t Be A Carbon Sasquatch, and 7 more.

If your young ones are preschool-aged, you’ll be glad to know Sesame Street seasons 35-41 have been added to the Amazon Instant Video catalog too. Better still, they’re all currently FREE to view for Amazon Prime members!

For those who don’t have an Amazon Prime membership, Sesame Street Instant Videos are available to buy for $1.99 per episode, and $12.99-$17.99 per season. Preschoolers love to watch their favorite videos over and over, and it’s through repetition that they learn, so the purchase of these videos can be a wise investment for helping to your little ones get a head start on mastering those crucial early number, letter and word skills.

Those youngsters who’ve graduated from Sesame Street are ready for Sesame Workshop’s The Electric Company Classic: educational videos that take kids from letters to words, and from words to sentences, all with songs and funny skits. This is the show that introduced the then-groundbreaking concept of phonics, that early literacy learning method that worked for generations of kids but has since (unfortunately) fallen out of favor with many school districts.

The original Electric Company cast included Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, Irene Cara and Rita Moreno, and saw cameo appearances from such comedy luminaries as Mel Brooks, Zero Mostel, Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett!

And just like the Sesame Street videos, The Electric Company Classic Season 1 and Season 2 are both currently FREE to view for Prime members. For others, the videos can be purchased for $1.99 per episode or $15.99 per season of 15 episodes. If you’ve got a beginning reader who’s not being taught how to ‘sound it out’ in Kindergarten, these videos can make all the difference in the world for kids who are struggling to get over that early literacy hump.