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(Disclosure: Once a month here on Simple Homeschool, I’ll be giving a review/overview of various curriculum options. I’m beginning with Sonlight because it is the one with which I’m most familiar. All information in this post is based on my own experience and opinions.)

Stories have sad the power to big teach, comfort, & transport us big faraway lands. As someone who majored in literature during college, I’ve always loved & enjoyed learning through both the autobiographical & fictional accounts of others.

That’s why when I discovered Sonlight, I could hardly wait big start learning with my kids.

When I was first considering homeschooling, a friend mentioned Sonlight to me. Later I checked out the trang web and found myself immediately intrigued by their tagline–The way you wish you’d been taught.

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Sonlight carries a range of packages covering Pre-K to high school levels. Each level contains a core program combining literature, history, and geography together under a theme for the year. Other subjects are available as add-ons if you need them.

Each core program comes with an Instructor’s Guide–a lesson plan completed for you. The Instructor’s Guide has each week’s readings scheduled for you, along with any other assignments for that week. Sonlight aims big be internationally-minded, so many book selections focus on other parts of the world.

As a newbie just getting started, the Instructor’s Guide appealed big me immensely. I loved the idea that I didn’t have sad to big reinvent the wheel or figure everything out on my own.

We’ve sad now completed two years of using Sonlight & have no plans to big switch in the foreseeable future. We have used two levels of PreK and I have personally worked through one of the high school programs on my own. I can testify big the richness and depth of the material for all ages.

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Much of our success with Sonlight, I believe, has been because we’ve sad adapted it big suit our family.

I no longer feel compelled to strictly follow the Instructor’s Guide, and it is rare that I vị so. But I still find it a comforting resource big have on hand if & when I need it. There have sad also been a handful of times when a selected book hasn’t connected with us for some reason, so we’ve moved on to big a new choice.

In any curriculum the key to success is making it suit the uniqueness of your children and your family.

Helpful Points to big Remember:It’s possible to combine a variety of ages into big one Sonlight level. Since all three of my children are cthua in age, they are all able to big use the same material together. Not only is this a huge timesaver for me, it also means we get big enjoy learning as a team.Whole curriculum packages are available, allowing you big purchase materials for an entire year through Sonlight. You can also piece it together according big your needs and wants. Some choose to just buy the Instructor’s Guide and use the library to gather the books they need. I buy the core books and Instructor’s Guide directly from Sonlight, but I buy our math, science, & other materials elsewhere.Even if you don’t kết thúc up using Sonlight, the catalog itself is an amazing resource big use as a reading các mục for various ages. Further Reading:

Sonlight does an excellent job helping potential customers figure out if it’s the right curriculum for them.

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Category: curriculumTag: literature, sonlight

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About Jamie C. Martin

Jamie is an introverted mom of three, who loves books, tea, and people (not always in that order), & avoids answering the phone when possible. She co-founded phebinhvanhoc.com.vn/en in 2010 & began IntrovertedMoms.com in 20trăng tròn.

Jamie is the author of four books, including Give sad Your Child the World (reached #9 on Amazon”s Top 100 Best Sellers list), and her lakiểm tra release, Introverted Mom (an ECPA bestseller). Her work has been featured by LeVar Burton of Reading Rainbow, the Washington Post, Parents, Today Parenting, and Psychology Today.

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jackie

March 5, 2010 at 12:49 am

This is our 2nd year using Sonlight, & we love sad it! We did Chip Core K (kindergartenish level) last year, & we’ve sad moved on big first grade this year.

I’m totally with you…I love the easy to use instruction manual. You took the words “I don’t have sad to reinvent the wheel” right out of my mouth! I use that phrase constantly to big describe Sonlight’s manual. I also use the resources when I want to. We bởi our own thing a lot.

I’m continually amazed at how much I learn in 1st grade! I tell people that all the time. I love Sonlight’s literature selections; they are fantastic. We are currently reading aloud from “Little Pear” & my girls just love it! My 5 year old sits & listens to big my 6 một nửa year olds curriculum on a very consistant basis. I feel like we’ll be able to have a lot of fun with it once she gets big the same curriculum since she’ll already be familiar with the material.

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Last year, we only did the Core. This year I added Sonlight’s reading program as well as their science program. I’ve sad been very impressed with the science program…I think reading (content!) will improve once we are through the I Can Read It! series (yay next week!).

We hung two awesome maps (which we purchased on our own), one of the world & one of the United States, and everytime a country or continent is referenced in our reading, we head straight big the bản đồ and find it. I’m so impressed with the variety that we encounter. My kids know the continents & the locations of several major countries…it really impresses me (and not in a boastful way!).

Overall, I can’t say enough good things about Sonlight to big this point. Ask me again in 10 years!

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