I think these books are fantastic - I would value your opinions about them!

[Yurtgirl]

I found this series of books in Borders yesterday - I think the study guides are fabulous and I am wondering if any of you HEs have ever used them

They do also do workbooks but we are currently loving the study guides and the friendly company that sell them.

www.cgpbooks.co.uk/predefined.asp

Each study guide has about 80 A4 pages, costs about £4.50 free p&p and if you order before 5pm it should arrive the next day - How fantastic is that?

Obviously influenced by the nat curric but I still think they might be of interest to you....

Yes CGP are the books many home educators use.

In fact until very recently you could get the schools discount if you told them you are home educating-but this has now been stopped unless you buy multiples of about 20 at a time or more

The funny thing is Julie - I saw these in Borders and thought of you!!!!!! Because you have said on mn that you have never really used workbooks - that is so inspiring! We are often a workbook household! Ds loves them - as well as generally enjoying school.

I saw these and wondered - "What would Julienoshoes think of these?" We are not getting the workbooks of this series though just the study books I think - workbooks are often available really cheaply from the book people

Its a shame they stopped the discount - though they are still good value

Oh I bought workbooks!
And yes they were CGP ones.
They just stayed on the shelves and were ignored by the children. They didn't like them at all.

It was when it finally dawned that we needed to give them time to deschool-and then after a while deschooling became unschooling and we could see how much they had learned along the way, that we stopped worrying about workbooks.
Well mostly we stopped panicking

Of course it is so easy for me to talk now-as we are at the end of our home ed years as youngest will be 16 in six months time-and we have three well educated, articulate, self confident, happy young people to show for it.