Friday, November 19, 2010

KB Teacher - TOS Review


Most homeschoolers find that they have some theme of interest developing that they'd like to explore or exploit for learning purposes. You know what I mean, such as when your 4 year old son is enthralled with dinosaurs. Or your 9 year old decides that she'd like to be like those she saw cooking on Junior MasterChef.

All of the sudden you're faced with a great learning curve opportunity. You'd like to build up a Unit Study and incorporate the theme into other parts of learning. The next step is to find resources, and then keep them engaged with some activity sheets. But it does take time to make up these activity sheets. If you can use what others have already created, you'd have the job done.

Well, there is such a bank of printable resources. It resides over at KBTeachers.  Your young man can have dinosaur colouring pages with some facts included. Your budding chef can learn about where our food comes from and how to plan restaurant menus.





KBTeachers have a whole array of worksheets, suitable for K - 12. Some of these pages are available for FREE, but most are through a Premium membership. Here are some examples of the excellent resources set up:
  • Graphical Alphabet - What makes these graphical alphabet activity pages so special is that you can customize them: you choose the fonts, the case (upper, lower or title) and can even choose from coloured printable pages or black and white alphabet coloring pages.
  • Personalised Writing Worksheets - You can type words, names, numbers and instructions.
  • Math Worksheet Generators - to save time on printing up practice sheets.  Choose "click here to generate a new set" and a new set of images and numbers appear, giving you a variety.  Then answers are visible when actually printing out the set.
  • Telling the Time - (perfect what we're using NOW with Mariposa!) Create a new set in seconds.
Keeping this site alive and fresh is a regularly updated section called "News for the Week". Here activity pages relevant to special calendar events and seasons are added.  There may also be a theme explored, such as Rainforests were in October, or Monet in November (with active reference links).

Premium membership gives unlimited access to all pages without the watermarks. If you're looking for something in particular, the team at KBTeachers are available for 24hr contact.

You may choose a one month FREE membership trial through PayPal. Membership is $29 for 12 months, or $49 for 2 years. Expect a vibrant, growing site that can serve you with quality worksheets that will encourage self-directed and directed learning.

NB - I received this product from TOS for the purpose of review. There is no other compensation and the opinions are my own. Thank you to TOS and KBTeachers for the use of this product. If you'd like to read further reviews on this product, please click HERE.

3 comments:

Monica said...

Nice review and photos. Dropping by from the Crew. My girls K and 2nd liked what we used from KB too. They have a lot of pages!
Monica

Just an Average American Mom said...

Nice Review.

Anonymous said...

Thank you for a great review!
If your kids did some coloring etc. make sure to let us know and we will feature their works on our upcoming January update!

Thanks again,

Christophe