The Videos tab on The Learning Castle is a more varied place than its name might suggest. Alongside school-style maths songs and holiday tunes sits a sizeable group of water-themed videos — creatures of the shoreline, the reef, and the open ocean, each given the rhyming, musical treatment the channel describes in its About text. As of November 2026 the channel listed 71 public uploads. For anyone building a sea unit for a preschool, an ESL class, or a homeschool week, that is a useful place to start browsing.
A Sea-Life Roster That Stretches From Shoreline to Open Water
The method behind the music is set out plainly in the channel’s About text: cool facts — mostly about animals, insects, and sea marine creatures — are rhymed and set to music, with the stated aim of producing songs that children and adults can enjoy together. That approach shows up clearly in the sea-life titles, which range from a single short sing-along to a full-length episode. Because the videos are built around facts set to a rhyme, they slot naturally into a theme week, a listening centre, or a family sing-along rather than sitting apart as standalone entertainment.
The water-themed titles on the public list fall into two rough groups. The short sing-alongs include Starfish Story Song!, THE MYSTERY SQUID SONG!, RIDING ON A LOBSTER TAIL!, PSYCHEDELIC FROG FISH!, THE MAGICAL FROGFISH BOOGIE WOOGIE SONG!, Sharks!, and Octopus! — Fact-Teaching Song. The longer formats include a Dolphin Episode, listed among the channel’s full-episode uploads. Whales appear twice — as The Whales’ Love Song! and as Whales! – Jazzy Love Song — and there is a penguin video as well.
Read as a set, the roster covers an unusually wide spread: animals a child might meet in a seaside touch tank, and animals they will only ever see on a screen. That spread is worth noticing when planning, because it lets you sequence a unit from the familiar to the exotic without changing the format. The channel also states that a free accompanying lesson is available at Teachers Pay Teachers, The Learning Castle, for each song and for each full episode — which means a sea-themed week can pair the listening with written follow-up rather than stopping at the song.
Shoreline Neighbours: Starfish, Lobsters, Penguins, and Two Frogfish Songs
Start where children usually start, at the edge of the water. Starfish Story Song! is framed as a story rather than a list of facts, which makes it an easy first listen for a group that is new to the topic. RIDING ON A LOBSTER TAIL! takes a shoreline catch and puts movement into the title, while the penguin video adds a coastal bird to a set that might otherwise be all fish and invertebrates. Between them, these three titles cover the kind of creature a family might meet on a beach walk or in a seaside aquarium display.
The clearest illustration of how the channel handles a single animal is the frogfish, which appears twice — once as PSYCHEDELIC FROG FISH! and again as THE MAGICAL FROGFISH BOOGIE WOOGIE SONG!. Two songs, two moods, one creature. For a teacher, that is a ready-made comparison activity: play both, then ask which words, images, or facts the children noticed in each. It is also a reminder that the published video list is not a flat catalogue; the same subject is revisited in different musical styles, which matters for children who respond better to one sound than another.
Behind the songs sits a single, consistent voice. The About page is signed “~Queen Angelina (a.k.a. Angela V. Woodhull, Ph.D.),” and the same text notes that the creator is available for live performances at public libraries, schools, and nursing homes, and invites viewers to email ideas, thoughts, and comments. That context is worth knowing when you plan: a song about a starfish or a lobster is not a one-off upload but part of a deliberate set of educational sing-alongs with written lessons attached.
In practice, the shoreline titles work best as a short listening block followed by something hands-on — sorting pictures of shells, sea stars, and lobsters, or drawing the creature from the song. The channel describes its material as being made for ESL learners, preschoolers, ADHD students, late-start readers, homeschoolers, and family sing-along entertainment, and the rhyme-and-repetition format suits that mix of ages and starting points.
Deep-Water Headliners: Whales, Dolphins, Sharks, Squid, and Octopus
The open-water half of the list is where the channel stretches out. Whales get two separate treatments — The Whales’ Love Song! and Whales! – Jazzy Love Song — and the titles alone signal that the musical framing changes while the subject stays the same. Dolphins, meanwhile, get the long-form treatment in the Dolphin Episode, one of the fuller uploads the channel has published alongside titles such as the camping and fly episodes.
That mix of formats is one of the more practical features of the list. A short song asks very little of a session; a full episode can carry a longer block on its own. The channel states that each full episode, like each song, comes with a free lesson at Teachers Pay Teachers under The Learning Castle, so a teacher who wants to extend a dolphin or whale theme has something written to hand.
The remaining headliners are largely self-describing. Sharks! announces its subject and lets the music do the rest. THE MYSTERY SQUID SONG! frames its creature as a puzzle, which makes it a natural choice for a guessing game before the first listen. Octopus! — Fact-Teaching Song labels its own intent in the title, so it is the easiest of the group to slot into a lesson with a clear fact-finding objective. Together with the whale and dolphin titles, these give a sea unit a genuine deep-water section rather than leaving it at the tideline.
Because the channel names ESL learners, preschoolers, ADHD students, late-start readers, homeschoolers, and family sing-alongs among its audience, the video list is best treated as mixed-age material rather than as a single-grade resource. The channel joined YouTube in September 2021, and the water-themed titles now form a substantial share of the 71 public uploads listed in November 2026 — enough to build a themed fortnight from the published list alone, opening with starfish and lobsters, moving out to frogfish and octopus, and closing with a full dolphin episode.
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