Rising Stars Study Guides Series

[KatharineClifton]

Any good for home ed? I am finding that most things are aimed at revision, but this series looks a bit different.

Or if anyone knows any good schemes for Yr 4, suggestions will be gratefully received.

DD is year 4. I don't know Rising Stars - we tend to cherry-pick resources we like!

English: Galore Park Junior English 2 and First Language Lessons for the Well Trained Mind Grade 4 and a writing course which was a free download.

Maths: GP Junior Maths 3, Bond No Nonsense year 4 and Schofield and Sims Problem Solving book 2. She also goes on Mathletics.

History: Evan Moor History Pockets, then projects on WW1 and WW2. (We usually use Story of the World followed by History Odyssey but she wasn't mature enough to cope with SOTW book 4.)

Geography: school express units (I just wait for relevant ones to come up on the weekly free download!)

Science: Gold Star Science (for years 3 & 4)

Latin: Galore Park 1 & Cambridge Latin 1
French: Galore Park 2.
Spanish: Galore Park 1.

Tinuviel - you are a star! Thank you :)

There is so much available and I have no idea. The school refused to send home the work done so far this year, which doesn't help as I have no idea what they have done so far and in what kind of style.

We will find our way eventually, but this section of Mumsnet is avid reading for me at the moment.

There's a private forum here for structured home educators, if you are interested. People on there use a wide range of resources and are very willing to share their experience of different things.

My favourite resources are probably First Language Lessons because it teaches English grammar so well (and I'm a languages teacher as well so to me grammar is really important) and the History Pockets from Evan Moor because DD has really enjoyed doing those. Both of those are American but available as downloads (although I bought FLL from amazon).

The Evan Moor geography products look really good too. We used Trail Guide to World geography for a couple of years, which was really good. Can't remember who publishes that one.

Thanks, I did join a while ago, but forgot. Doh!

The Rising Stars books are quite nice - would of been nicer if I had ordered from The Book People as they are doing sets for four quid.

Got a couple of the Evan Moor pockets, a literature and a history one. They are cheapest on Book Depository at the moment if anyone else is looking to buy them.

I'll look out for the Galore Park stuff second hand as it's a bit pricey new.

We haven't done a lot yet, after a lot of rows I decided there really is something in de-schooling :) Not sure quite how much more crap TV I can listen to though.