"Mom, you know how I just read that book Guns for General Washington in Sonlight? Well I was just reading in A History of US and the main character from Guns for General Washington was just being talked about. Is says he died from digesting a chicken bone! It got stuck in his intestine. I love how they can take several books and have me read about the same event at the same time!"
The above statement is word for word what my 13 year old said to me yesterday. I could NOT have said it better myself! This is exactly why Sonlight is so wonderful! Sure, I could get their catalog and have him read all the books they mention. But the true beauty of Sonlight is the timing on the books being read as assigned by the teachers manual! I can't even tell you how many times a question that we had from one Sonlight book was answered in another Sonlight book we were reading the same day! It's like magic! This is our 6th year to do Sonlight and the magic is still happening! This is the 1st year (8th grade) that my son is doing all the reading on his own. (Oh, how I am missing those great books! Although I did pre-read quite a few over the Summer. hehehehe) I feel so blessed that we found Sonlight and that my kids are able to learn with a Curriculum that they LOVE. We took 1 year off from Sonlight because I wanted to do the Story of the World Books through our homeschool Co-op and my son actually complained because he missed the books! That is a winning Curriculum to me!
(BTW, I don't start Sonlight with my kids until 2nd grade. That's why I am doing the Magic Tree House Books this year with my 1st grader.)
This is own first year with sonlight and although my son is not wild about it it's going fairly well. In the past I have done my own lit. based studies but I have 2 young kids now to add to the mix and I felt like I needed a little "hand holding" for awhile.
How do you handle the time line figures?
Also any reason that you are waiting til second grade to start you dd in sonlight? When you start what core will she do?
We used SL for K and 1st. We're doing WinterPromise this year... but then I read your post and it makes me wonder if I should rethink SL for the future. Oi!
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