http://www.abcteach.com/

 This is an online resource for preschool- 8^th grade levels which includes some nice educational games, puzzles, pre-made worksheets, loads of seasonal worksheets, custom worksheet generators and clip art to help you make “centers” and custom games (such as file folder games). The website membership allows you to customize your papers for Notebooking or Lapbooking activities as well.

According to their website, they are a teacher’s site that, “With high quality content added on a weekly basis, abcteach is considered a world-class educational resource by its many members across the globe, and one that exceeds the offerings of other websites while offering unlimited access at very competitive prices.”

Membership to “ABC Teach” gives you access to over 35,000 pages of printable worksheets and activities, to abctools, our exclusive custom document generators- plus  really cool clip art  (my favorite)!

I believe that I may be addicted to their clip art section!

Our family's learning style naturally tends to be “non-worksheet” oriented. We lean towards “Hands On” activities, living a Lifestyle of Learning, as well as using lots of "Living books" and natural learning as the framework of our educational plan. Ruth Beechick and Charlotte Mason are my heroines, so you can imagine that I began by thinking that "it just wouldn’t be my “cup of tea”. Although most of what was available, I wasn't able to use, I was pleasantly surprised to find that they had a lot of nice things on the site (Wow- not just boring old worksheets -lol!).  

I did enjoy exploring a lot of their membership areas and I found that just browsing, seemed to inspire my creativity.

I came away from the website with some really good ideas to ‘tweak’ for my homeschool! The worksheet generators were easy to use and I liked the idea that you could customize them to use with whatever curriculum or books you choose. A lot of what they had was below level for my kids or I would classify as a little too close to "busy work" for my students. But much of it would be great for a classroom teacher and some of the things would be great for Homeschoolers too.

You could save a lot of money using this website to create your own tests and worksheets for your child, from any textbook.  

In addition, they have many ready made worksheets available in all the subject areas:

Oh how I wish I had access to this stuff when I was a substitue teacher!

They have some really great things you can try FREE on their website as well, so I would suggest that you might enjoy a look around and if you find that you use a lot of worksheets or especially would like to create your own worksheets, you might like to obtain a membership at this award winning site!

The yearly membership fee for ABC Teach is $40.00.  

Just to let you know, the “Homeschool Buyers Co-op” offers a Group Buy price of $20.00 per year (plus the Co-ops’ processing fee of $2.00- it is free to join the co-op). This is available until November 30, 2009. You can find out more about that special price right here:

https://www.homeschoolbuyersco-op.org/index.php?option=com_hsbc_epp_order&Itemid=1203

Many thanks to my fellow “TOS Crew” member, Lisa, at the Berry Patch, http://maineberrypatch.blogspot.com/  for the update on the group discount!

In order to test out their product, ABC Teach provided me with one month's access to the membership area of their website, free, so that I could properly evaluate all that they offer. No other compensation was received in exchange for my review of this website. 

(except, to be honest,  I do get to keep the clip art and isn't that better than money anyway?)

Until next time - stay CREATIVE!

 Merit K