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Oct. 13, 2009
TOS Review of ABC Teach

 

 

                This is a familiar site to me as teachers I have worked with have shown me things they have printed from this site. On the day the authorization code was e-mailed to the TOS homeschool crew members for our free month, I spent several hours creating worksheets for my kids.  In the worksheet generator section, you can input any words you choose and make a word search or crossword puzzle. My kids all enjoy the word search puzzles, and the one I created with their chemistry terms and with a dragonfly shape was a hit.

                As I spent more time going through the site, I just kept finding more and more we could use. They have coloring sheets for almost anything, from musical instruments to airplanes. There are reading comprehension activities with stories as well as several different formats of quizzes, depending on what your focus is. Answers are provided as well, even to the crossword puzzles you create!

                Hurricanes are a threat where we live, and I saved the weather lessons on hurricanes and hurricane safety.

                They have lists of the most frequently misspelled words, and activity sheets for them including circle the correct spelling, crossword puzzle, word search, and more.

                A shape book is a new activity I know will be fun for Joseph.

                Outside of teaching my own kids, I work as an Occupational Therapist, often addressing handwriting skills. My favorite find on the ABC Teach site is the worksheet generator. You can find many styles of handwriting and make a worksheet with whatever words and tips you choose. For example, using the Handwriting Without Tears style manuscript, I made a page for my son Joseph, and put the lines with top, bottom, and dotted middle, as well as arrows on the letters showing exactly how to form each letter.

 From the site owners: "First some basics about abcteach:
- We provide thousands of printable educational materials and access to our abctools custom document generators to homeschoolers and teachers around the world. Our printables include worksheets, activities, and teaching extras that cover a broad range of subjects and categories.

- abcteach has a free site with over 6,000 free printable documents. The free site homepage is www.abcteach.com.

- Our membership site has over 30,000 total printable documents. We also give our members access to abctools. There are over 60 abctools in a variety of subjects and categories. Each allows our members to create custom documents, tailored to their childrens' specific interests and learning styles. A one-year membership is currently $40. You can watch our video tour here: http://www.abcteach.com/benefits.php#video_tour "

This year membership is on my wishlist.

 

 

My product reviews are endorsements for products that have been provided to me for the purpose of reviewing them. I am not being paid for this. I am sharing my honest opinion of how these products work for my family.


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