For The Curious: What You Get With Sonlight Curriculum


Sonlight does not provide lesson plans for the preschool program but you can obtain lesson plans (a weekly schedule for how to sequence the selections over 36 weeks) written by a Sonlight user at the Sonlight Preschool email loop . Links to additional lesson plans for each book/story can be found at World As We Knew It .

Sonlight’s website has online ordering and additional helps in their Sonlight Forums .

The Complete Basic Kindergarten program includes a collection of books designed to introduce children to the world around them, including many classics and an Egermeier’s Bible Story Book. Biographies and missionary stories make the collection powerful tool in reinforcing traditional Christian values.

The Usborne books add color across all subjects. The complete basic program does not include Phonics, Math, Science, or other enrichment materials you can select from the catalog. But Sonlight offers the Language Arts, Math and Science, and Power-Glide language courses at a discount when you purchase the complete basic program.

I like the simplicity of the reading program (based on Ruth Beechik’s theories of teaching). Teacher’s manuals for the Basic Program, Language Arts, Math, and Science all fit together efficiently in one loose leaf binder with tabs for each of the 36 weeks of the course guides. The teacher's manual for each subject is printed on different colored paper.

The Sonlight teacher's manuals have taken a load off my shoulders. They present a plan for each week and include helpful ideas and notes regarding the books. The basic manual also offers many helpful hints on how to use the program as well as tips from other homeschool families and planning forms.

What I’m learning from message boards and other reading is that many families adapt the Sonlight curriculum to meet their needs. Though the cost of the entire program may be prohibitive to some, you can always order books individually and find many at your local library. The catalog actually codes each book so that you can know which books should be available at a library and which are not. The catalog alone would be a great tool for designing your own program at far less cost than ordering the entire program.

For those who worry about finding time to read aloud to several children at differing levels, I should mention that

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