Does anyone know if Sonlight literature portion consist of just reading the book aloud? Or is there a portion in the teachers guide that has correlating questions/discussion/etc. we are looking to incorporate literature for this coming year and I always get confused about what should actually be thought.
Once you get started, I’d love to see a homeschool DITL with Sonlight and how you’re implementing it! I’ve heard of it before but never seen it in practice, so I’m interested to see if it’s something that would work well for our family.
I’m SUPER excited to see how you like it! I love your reviews and CANNOT wait for all of these videos. We just got Sonlight science during Black Friday and will start it next month. I will at some point do the history but we just got Beautiful Feet around the world in picture books. It’s more like geography. So we will do that and then do sonlight History if we end up liking it.
YES!!! I was so hoping to see Sonlight was your new literature program. I am so excited about this. I cant wait to hear how it goes. I love following Homeschoolers but especially those that use the same curriculum as us. So I cant wait to hear how yall like Sonlight!
Yes, the libraries are very lacking in good books! I feel like I am ALWAYS buying books because I cannot find much worth reading in our local. We go for the adventure, outing and practice of the loving the library, but not because they are all great content options.
We're doing k this year for my 2nd grader and prek/k kiddo - we are really happy with it! The history part isn't as good as core a (we did that last year) but since you're in nz I think it's a lovely amount of us history as I don't know how familiar you are with our history!
I love Sonlight! I've been using them for the past 3 years. I love their Read Aloud choices. Books I have never heard of but are great reads. I hope you enjoy all the books! Level K is great and his favorite book was George vs. George.
We read george vs George because I saw it on the sonlight list and just giving you a heads up, there's a section in there you definitely want to probably skim through prior to reading out loud. I'm assuming they probably tell you this in their manuals, but I didn't have the manual so we got there and I was like... oh boy... skip, skip, skip... haha!
Well this is exciting! I have sometimes considered Sonlight because I love doing read alouds. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it once you begin using it.
We do Bookshark (secular Sonlight) for History, Science, and the readers. We absolutely love it! The actual language arts has much to be desired and needs a major rework with the Creative Expression area. Good luck!! ❤️
Love! Looking forward to hear your thoughts on this curriculum after a few months using it. I am so interested in Sonlight for my boys in a year or two once my littlest is old enough ❤
We are using sonlight f with my twins and my nephew!!! They are 6th apart!!! My teenager is using sonlight!!! We love using books for learning!!! We got eBooks for the readers as that’s what we chose!!! We didn’t buy all the book from sonlight!!!
We are doing HBL K and the 2nd grade readers next school year with my Kinder and 2nd grader! I passed on the science this year because I didn’t want to overwhelm myself. If HBL and the readers go well I might add science in the following year! Switching to a literature based program is new to us!
We are doing this k level with the level one readers! But doing the secular version bc the state pays for it. We add our own Bible into it but we are enjoying it a lot! The science kit is mostly basic but some of the items are so random like color changing powder. The science is so great tho and you can adapt it to make it work! So exciting!
I’m so excited to hear your why behind this 💗I did the pre-k this year and didn’t love it, but I’m hoping to try Sonlight again in later grades. I only K is US history so curious how you’ll make it work for you guys!
I’ve heard from many people that core A was easier than K for their children. So interesting! I was going to wait a couple years and try A for everyone. Some have said that Sonlight feels quite rushed if you’re trying to “check off the boxes” and they don’t like that there isn’t enough time for the books to really “sit” with the child and for the child to really think about the readings so I’m curious your thoughts!! We are a literature-based homeschool and we’ve tried A LOT.
We are in the middle of Sonlight C. We will most likely continue with Sonlight next year but not sure if we will do D or D+E. We will also continue Story of the World. We are currently using Volume 2.
Sunlight is the ONE curriculum that I have FOMO with 😂. We went with AO (also not Americans and hard/expensive to get things in, so AO is a great cheaper option). But man seeing all these wonderful books with a nice curriculum with step by step behind it, darn!
AO is also wonderful! Honestly, I never really considered Sonlight because it's a boxed curriculum and there's so much negative talk about boxed curriculums these days. Silly me to let that persuade me!
For US History, the Revolutionary War specifically, I recommend the Liberty's Kids video series. It's a series I loved as a kid and my 3 year old now loves it as well. Also, the Dear America book series is a fun way to learn history.
I don't understand doing US history. Why not NZ history or history of the world? USA can be egocentric with their focus on US history alone it seems weird to buy into that.
I’ll admit I do often find many southern hemisphere homeschoolers use American curriculum. I do understand there is less choice and the choices available are not as athletically pleasing and books are not as “popular”. It’s obviously personal choice for each family, you do what’s best for your family. As an Australian homeschooler I wish there was more choice but we have been studying Australian Inc Indigenous history/geography for a few years (I made a goal to only study our culture in the primary years) we included travel along with this and it has been so rewarding! Southern hemisphere cultures have so much to offer!
Because their world history doesn’t cover US history. While I totally understand not wanting the whole focus to be on the US, it is a big country with a ton of great history that is worth knowing. We will also do a year of NZ history in a couple of years. However, I will have to put that together myself as NZ is severely lacking in local curriculum.
Most history books that focus on a specific country are going to be egocentric. If it is a text about France history, I do not expect it to be 20% about France and 80% other countries. I expect a large amount of the literature to be about france with text regarding how other countries may have impacted the country. My point is if its history about a specific country it is more than likely going to fucus on that countries history, and the who, what, where, when, why and how. =]
@@nikkibbander no I said US tend to only focus on US history. Not US history only focuses on US history, that goes without saying. I just wouldn't spend a whole year on one country unless it was my own, US gets enough attention. I would at least start with world history then focus on specifics later personally.
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We LOVE Sonlight so much.
It seems wonderful!
Definitely want to check out Liberty Kids TV for US history, course, Cyberchase for math!!.
Thanks!
@@ThisHomeschoolHouse ur welcome any time
She is so cute!
Thanks. :)
Does anyone know if Sonlight literature portion consist of just reading the book aloud? Or is there a portion in the teachers guide that has correlating questions/discussion/etc. we are looking to incorporate literature for this coming year and I always get confused about what should actually be thought.
The core literature doesn't have any questions (at least not in core K), however, the graded readers do.
@@ThisHomeschoolHouse thank you!
We love Humphrey's series of books, yay! My 7 year old loves Og and Humphrey so so much! Hope you love them too :D
Thanks!
I love all those readers--frog and toad, little bear, etc. So many good books!
I'm loving that we'll be reading books I wouldn't necessarily have come across. :)
Love your little one 😘
Hope the new curriculum works for you 🙏
Thank you!
We use the Robinson curriculum it’s great
I've not heard of that one. I'll have to check it out. :)
I am sooo excited because I'm considering this for next year! Can't wait to see how you like it!
Oh yay! I'll be sharing more soon. :)
Once you get started, I’d love to see a homeschool DITL with Sonlight and how you’re implementing it! I’ve heard of it before but never seen it in practice, so I’m interested to see if it’s something that would work well for our family.
Absolutely! :)
I’m SUPER excited to see how you like it! I love your reviews and CANNOT wait for all of these videos. We just got Sonlight science during Black Friday and will start it next month. I will at some point do the history but we just got Beautiful Feet around the world in picture books. It’s more like geography. So we will do that and then do sonlight History if we end up liking it.
Smart to kind of trial it with one subject first. :)
I love new homeschool resources! Like a kid in a candy store!! 🥰 You had some good choices! Fun to watch! Great little helper!
Thank you 🤗
YES!!! I was so hoping to see Sonlight was your new literature program. I am so excited about this. I cant wait to hear how it goes. I love following Homeschoolers but especially those that use the same curriculum as us. So I cant wait to hear how yall like Sonlight!
Oh yay!
We are currently using Sonlight c HBL and Science with my third grader twins. They love it. It's there and my favorite part of our homeschool day.
Oh yay! Great to get that feedback. :)
All my kids love Frog and Toad. My 13 yo boy still picks them up.
Oh yay! That's good to know. :)
Yay!!!! I love Sonlight! I’m sad to not be using it this year because of ages and gaps and all that, but yay!!! I’m excited for you! 😁
Feel free to live vicariously through me then. ;)
@@ThisHomeschoolHouse lol yes exactly!!! 😁
This looks great! I’m also interested in this Sonlight package so I’m looking forward to hearing more!
More to come!
Yes, the libraries are very lacking in good books! I feel like I am ALWAYS buying books because I cannot find much worth reading in our local. We go for the adventure, outing and practice of the loving the library, but not because they are all great content options.
So much of it has to be filtered now. It's frustrating.
We're doing k this year for my 2nd grader and prek/k kiddo - we are really happy with it! The history part isn't as good as core a (we did that last year) but since you're in nz I think it's a lovely amount of us history as I don't know how familiar you are with our history!
Thanks so much! It's nice to have some feedback. :)
I love Sonlight! I've been using them for the past 3 years. I love their Read Aloud choices. Books I have never heard of but are great reads. I hope you enjoy all the books! Level K is great and his favorite book was George vs. George.
Good to know!
We read george vs George because I saw it on the sonlight list and just giving you a heads up, there's a section in there you definitely want to probably skim through prior to reading out loud. I'm assuming they probably tell you this in their manuals, but I didn't have the manual so we got there and I was like... oh boy... skip, skip, skip... haha!
Thanks for the heads up. :)
Well this is exciting! I have sometimes considered Sonlight because I love doing read alouds. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it once you begin using it.
Will definitely share lots of updates! :)
We do Bookshark (secular Sonlight) for History, Science, and the readers. We absolutely love it! The actual language arts has much to be desired and needs a major rework with the Creative Expression area. Good luck!! ❤️
We love our current Language Arts program so I honestly didn't even consider theirs.
I'm doing Bookshark also and totally agree, the language arts leaves much to be desired. I'm trying to find something better. Love the readers though.
So funny at the beginning of the video I was thinking how much you looked like your youngest and then she popped in for the video 😂❤️
Haha! She is definitely my mini me. :)
Love! Looking forward to hear your thoughts on this curriculum after a few months using it. I am so interested in Sonlight for my boys in a year or two once my littlest is old enough ❤
I'll definitely be sharing my thoughts in upcoming videos. :)
We are using sonlight f with my twins and my nephew!!! They are 6th apart!!! My teenager is using sonlight!!! We love using books for learning!!! We got eBooks for the readers as that’s what we chose!!! We didn’t buy all the book from sonlight!!!
I love how flexible it can be and how many grades it spans. :)
We are doing HBL K and the 2nd grade readers next school year with my Kinder and 2nd grader! I passed on the science this year because I didn’t want to overwhelm myself. If HBL and the readers go well I might add science in the following year! Switching to a literature based program is new to us!
It's exciting to start something fresh. :)
Did you purchase all those books? Or did it cone with the level K kit? Did buy the kit an purchase readers as well? lol never used sonlight
It all came from Sonlight. :)
We are doing this k level with the level one readers! But doing the secular version bc the state pays for it. We add our own Bible into it but we are enjoying it a lot!
The science kit is mostly basic but some of the items are so random like color changing powder. The science is so great tho and you can adapt it to make it work! So exciting!
Awesome that you can still use the secular version. :)
I’m so excited to hear your why behind this 💗I did the pre-k this year and didn’t love it, but I’m hoping to try Sonlight again in later grades. I only K is US history so curious how you’ll make it work for you guys!
I'll be sharing more for sure. :)
I’ve heard from many people that core A was easier than K for their children. So interesting! I was going to wait a couple years and try A for everyone. Some have said that Sonlight feels quite rushed if you’re trying to “check off the boxes” and they don’t like that there isn’t enough time for the books to really “sit” with the child and for the child to really think about the readings so I’m curious your thoughts!! We are a literature-based homeschool and we’ve tried A LOT.
I've heard the same about A being easier. It'll be interesting to see how it goes. :)
We are in the middle of Sonlight C. We will most likely continue with Sonlight next year but not sure if we will do D or D+E. We will also continue Story of the World. We are currently using Volume 2.
Story of the World is wonderful!
Sunlight is the ONE curriculum that I have FOMO with 😂. We went with AO (also not Americans and hard/expensive to get things in, so AO is a great cheaper option). But man seeing all these wonderful books with a nice curriculum with step by step behind it, darn!
AO is also wonderful! Honestly, I never really considered Sonlight because it's a boxed curriculum and there's so much negative talk about boxed curriculums these days. Silly me to let that persuade me!
For US History, the Revolutionary War specifically, I recommend the Liberty's Kids video series. It's a series I loved as a kid and my 3 year old now loves it as well. Also, the Dear America book series is a fun way to learn history.
Thanks so much for the recommendations!
@@ThisHomeschoolHouse American Girl books when ur daughter gets older. Like 7-8 years old
I don't understand doing US history. Why not NZ history or history of the world? USA can be egocentric with their focus on US history alone it seems weird to buy into that.
I’ll admit I do often find many southern hemisphere homeschoolers use American curriculum. I do understand there is less choice and the choices available are not as athletically pleasing and books are not as “popular”. It’s obviously personal choice for each family, you do what’s best for your family. As an Australian homeschooler I wish there was more choice but we have been studying Australian Inc Indigenous history/geography for a few years (I made a goal to only study our culture in the primary years) we included travel along with this and it has been so rewarding! Southern hemisphere cultures have so much to offer!
Because their world history doesn’t cover US history. While I totally understand not wanting the whole focus to be on the US, it is a big country with a ton of great history that is worth knowing.
We will also do a year of NZ history in a couple of years. However, I will have to put that together myself as NZ is severely lacking in local curriculum.
@PhDangerously Overeducated she's sharing it and inviting commentary and questions which I asked
Most history books that focus on a specific country are going to be egocentric. If it is a text about France history, I do not expect it to be 20% about France and 80% other countries. I expect a large amount of the literature to be about france with text regarding how other countries may have impacted the country. My point is if its history about a specific country it is more than likely going to fucus on that countries history, and the who, what, where, when, why and how. =]
@@nikkibbander no I said US tend to only focus on US history. Not US history only focuses on US history, that goes without saying.
I just wouldn't spend a whole year on one country unless it was my own, US gets enough attention. I would at least start with world history then focus on specifics later personally.