Podcasts for Kids

Podcasts for kids?    !!!YES!!!

Podcasts can be a valuable learning tool 

                          and will support social emotional learning too.

Quality podcasts designed for children can improve Listening skills and build engagement by offering multitudes of topics. Kids learn about science, history, and culture. Listeners can hear  stories from around the world by an infinite number of diverse authors.

Speaking and listening are critical life skills. Listening to podcasts, especially together, Starts dialogue and builds conversation skills. It keeps us curious and encourages questions and exploration of new ideas.

Podcasts as a replacement for Reading? NO, but as an engaging literacy support? YES. Listening carefully, developing voice, creating mind pictures and fostering creative thinking are complex reading skills. Podcasts also expose us to new words and phrases which builds vocabulary. all of this leading to children becoming readers. 

How can podcasts support SEL? Communication, self-awareness, empathy, problem-solving, and self-control are all skills that typically fall under SEL. Listening to podcasts benefits children in the same ways that reading and thinking about good book does. Listening connect students to others who are like themselves, and also expose them to new people, places, experiences and ideas. Read Book Love for questions to help you talk about books (and podcasts!)

 Listening to podcasts together can foster strong relationships. if children and their important adults listen together the benefits increase. They are  a  fun media alternative that brings families together — no screens required.

Give podcast a try, you will be surprised at the benefits.

Share these  and other podcasts with kids to help them develop essential skills, develop their communication and literacy skills, and become confident and complex thinkers.

Check Out These Great Lists from  Common Sense:

Best Podcasts for Kids

Podcasts for Social Emotional Learning

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Need More Convincing?  Watch Bellow for some GREAT recommendations

Social Skills Are Life Long

 

Did You Know?

      Social Skills are Skills for LIFE

Listening and following directions. Staying on task and using time efficiently. Following school and classroom rules even when no one is watching. Using your organizational skills. Completing schoolwork and homework. Working well in groups. Solving problems appropriately.

The school skills that we have worked on all year

are the same skills that will make you shine your whole life!

Whether you call them social skills, skills for life, or SOFT SKILLS, these skills are people skills, they are JOB SKILLS.

If you demonstrate:

Control of your emotions

Creative thinking

A Collaborative attitude

Good communication

Listening carefully

Time management

       EVERYONE will want YOU to work with them and you will have so many wonderful choices!

So, now let's EXPLORE!

      What excites you? 
            What are your strengths? 
                What are you most excited to learn? 

Use the answers to these questions to begin to think: 

Who am I and what might I want to be?

Play Would You Rather and warm up your brain!

Think about your STRENGTHS too.

What are your skills and talents? How will they help you succeed in a job?

Watch the videos below for MORE ideas!

You don't have to know what you want to do right now. Your ideas will change as you grow and learn and experience more things. The goal is to keep your eyes and ears open to new ideas and to keep being the best version of YOU. 

You already make the world a better place!