3littlemonkeys Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 I'm thinking about trying out the netflix and I know there are many programs for "school". I have a rising 1st grader and a preschooler. Is it worth the $$? I really WANT to do this, so enable me ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bairnmama Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 I LOVE Netflix for schooling! This past year we did MFW Exploring Countries & Cultures, and I was able to find documentaries for almost every country/ecosystem covered. They also have a lot of LeapFrog videos, PBS educational cartoons, and other such things for the younger set. It's a great resource for our house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justamouse Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 For everything! We watch *so much* with it. We stream history, watch animal shows in the evening. Disks all the time. Old classic movies, TV shows we love. Firefly. 'nuff said. Best 15 dollars a month I ever spent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtrmlnlabs Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 My boys 8 and 5 LOVE LOVE LOVE Liberty's Kids (American History) and Beakman's World (Science)!! Liberty's Kids you can but from Amazon but Beakman you can only get all of it on Netflix. Both shows are so easy to bounce off of to do more. I also love it for the Discovery Channel and History Channel stuff, although some of that is a bit above their heads. I will watch things with DS8 and explain it during or afterwards. I find Netflix a huge help with our schooling! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeaganS Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 We don't homeschool yet, but use Netflix a ton! We only get one DVD out at a time, but we stream a lot through our Wii. My daughter's favorite shows are Mythbusters, Blue's Clues, Sean the Sheep, and Wallace and Gromit, all of which are available for streaming. Most of our favorite tv shows are available for streaming too! We don't have cable or anything, but have plenty to watch if we want to because of Netflix. We went to my in-law's house and my dd asked to watch Mythbusters, which they had DVRed. It was the first time she's ever had to watch commericals, and she got very concerned and kept telling my MIL to turn Mythbusters back on. Oh the happy life she leads, to not have a clue about commercials. :lol: Once we start homeschooling, we plan on adding another DVD out at a time to be dedicated for homeschooling use, but in the meantime, it's worth the $10/month just for streaming, IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Food4Thought Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 We love Netflix here! My kids just finished watching Blue's Clues (although Joe is not my favorite in the later seasons). We don't have TV reception or Cable, so everything we watch is through Netflix. We do a lot of streaming through the xbox. We don't use it much for education, besides a few BBC documentaries or PBS Kids shows. I'll be watching this thread for more ideas, but just wanted to chime in how much I like Netflix! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmschooling Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 We use it for everything! No cable or tv stations so we watch PBS shows, some Disney shows, fun and educational shows, family movie nights, get DVDs by mail....I add shows to the instant que and that's the only ones kids can choose from. I don't let them browse or search bc there are not so great movies with covets I don't want them to see. We all love it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annabel Lee Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 :iagree: I totally agree about not letting the kids browse around unsupervised. I've got mine password protected for that reason, but when I'm right there with them, they know which categories are safe (family, children...) and which ones are NOT. We use it for everything! There's more than we could ever possibly watch that I want to watch on there. I only get 1 disc at a time but do instant streaming, too. Mostly I've been wasting my own time watching Discovery's Shark Week lately. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Running the race Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 Everything! Best money we spend. We've never had cable TV. We don't miss it. My kids are older, but we watch lots of documentaries and history-related shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RachelFlores Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 We LOVE Netflix, dd (5.5) watches Liberty Kids, Dora, Mythbusters, lots of nature documentaries and (what I find amazing) requests NOVA science NOW Ds (3.5) watches PBS kids shows including Cat in the Hat and Dinosaur Train, Blues Clues, LeapFrog movies and the nature documentaries that dd likes And then there is so much for Dh and I to enjoy once the kids go to bed. It is well worth the money and if you rent 2 or 3 movies a month right now it really won't be costing you anything because you can put that rental money towards nextflix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
momto2Cs Posted June 29, 2011 Share Posted June 29, 2011 We use it for everything! No cable or tv stations so we watch PBS shows, some Disney shows, fun and educational shows, family movie nights, get DVDs by mail....I add shows to the instant que and that's the only ones kids can choose from. I don't let them browse or search bc there are not so great movies with covets I don't want them to see. We all love it! same here. We enjoy Netflix so much we canceled cable! I add shows that I feel are good/beneficial/appropriate/enjoyable to the queue and that's what they can choose from. We get dvds by mail too to round it out. $15 a month for this sure beats $75 a month for cable! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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