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Nov. 2, 2009 - ABC Teach

 

    

ABC Teach is a membership site that has a plethora of worksheets, tools, clip arts, forms and much more to use in your homeschool.  When my kids were younger I had found this site and a few other similar sites online I used once in awhile but as our ages increased and we became more eclectic and needed less busywork I found we used these type of things less.  If you find yourself wanting/needing extra worksheets/colorsheets etc… this might be a great tool for you.  One of the things we still used (today in fact) are the book report forms . 

 

One of the best things about ABC teach is that you can check out a lot of it for free!  Just go to abcteach.com and start searching, much of it is available without membership.

 

It is obviously geared toward regular school students/teachers.  For instance there are lots of bulletin board and desk card tools. If you look around however you can find many things that would lend themselves more toward the typical homeschool family.

 

They have many “generators” where you can create your own worksheets or puzzles.  This could be very helpful for families who are creating their own curriculum.  Since my daughter has been asking for more handwriting sheets, and I didn’t get her a workbook this year, we checked out that feature of the site. 

 

There is a tutorial which tells you how to use the generator that I bypassed and just went right ahead in creating.  The generator has many types of font to chose from.  You can create the cursive (or print) to copy or select “dotted lines” for your child to trace.  If you want to reinforce learning in a particular subject you can create copywork to go along with curriculum you already have.  We chose to type in some of the definitions we’re learning in Economics to help her improve on her cursive.  It does take time however for you to put in all the information rather than have a prepared copywork.  They do have a few prepared click and prints but very limited.

 

We don’t follow typical school scope and sequence so when I typed in some of the content of our history to see what was available I didn’t find a lot.  If you use curriculum that corresponds more with regular school curriculum you might find more already prepared options.  I did find some on Plymouth and Thanksgiving that could be extra options for us as we study that era.  One of the things I downloaded was a 7 page guide on the mayflower and pilgrims.  It had timeline, who/what/where/when sheets, etc…

 

Another area I check out was the literature section.  There are a lot of question and answer type worksheets for various novels.  I did save a couple that I thought we might be reading soon and though I wouldn’t give them out as worksheets as they were intended I would use the questions for discussion.

 

I would recommend this if you need some “extras” and especially if you have time to create using their generators to fit your existing curriculum.  I encourage you to check out their freebie’s first to get a feel for the site. 

 

It’s $40 for a one year membership.  Be sure to visit ABC Teach for more information and to check out their freebies!

*ABC teach provided a free one month membership to me in exchange for my review.

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