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Feb. 7, 2006

Questions for Sonlight users.

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I found my explode the code A, B and C  books. Yeah. I was going to start them with Alyssa. She is beyond the concept of them... but her gripe and pencil steadiness is not where it needs to be to do them. I am at a loss if I should just skip them and save them for Tristan. That might be my route. I think with a few more months her hand steadiness on a pencil will have matured to writing things better. But her brain is beyond that. I know she could breeze through those books. That is what is good about two totally different kids that are not that far difference in age. I can just save things if I don't use them.

 

I found so many things I want to get from Usborne books. Wow... I could spend a fortune in there. I am going to have to narrow this down. The confusing part...

I see that sonlight uses Usbornes books a lot. I also noticed when browsing the books on the Usborne site that there is a LOT of Evolution pictures in the books. Meaning Cave People, etc. What do you do with that? Also the millions of years. I don't want to have to continually make her doubt her material. Should I just skip the books entirely even though they seem like a good portion of the curriculum? I am not on one curriculum yet but when I have extra money (yeah right what is that?) I am buying pieces of it here and there. I can get it the same price through a friend who would make commision on it. But I dont like the looks of the books.

 

I love answers in genesis things. But they don't seem to branch out as far into things as Usborne does. AIG sticks more with creation and evolution and dinosaurs etc.

 

So has anyone gone through sonlight K and 1st? What did you do with the books that show things we do not believe in?


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Posted by Dini
Linda, I have used SL, and here is how it's worked for us. First, SL's instructor's Guides ALWAYS let you know when something like that is in the book. Second, I figure my kids need to know that there are people out there who believe in evolution, because how can you answer someone if you are in shock that they could believe something so wrong? So when we come to those parts, I tell my kids that this is something people believe because they are trying hard to avoid God. And then we read it. Then I ask them to tell me what REALLY happened, and I am amazed at how well they can do that! We also had fun trying to figure out if the evolutionary theory at least gets the order of creation right. And we talk about how nobody is sure how old the earth is, and these ages are just guesses, but I tell them, too, that I am pretty certain that the earth is much younger than the book says. It really turned into a good thing for us, a chance to affirm what we believe and talk about how deceptive Satan is.
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