Core 4 - 5-Day Schedule

This package includes these 49 items:

Catalog Number	Title	Our Regular Price	Core Club Price
4A01	Rules of the Road	$7.99	$7.19
4A05	The Winged Watchman	$13.95	$12.56
4A06	The Great Turkey Walk	$6.95	$6.26
4A07	Across Five Aprils	$5.99	$5.39
4A08	Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems	$12.95	$11.66
4A09	Caddie Woodlawn	$6.99	$6.29
4A12	Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	$7.99	$7.19
4A13	Miracles on Maple Hill	$5.95	$5.36
4A15	Little Britches	$14.95	$13.46
4A16	Cheaper by the Dozen	$11.99	$10.79
4A22	The Great Wheel	$7.95	$7.16
4A23	Moccasin Trail	$6.99	$6.29
4A27	All Sail Set	$14.95	$13.46
4H02	A Letter to Mrs. Roosevelt	$5.50	$4.95
4H11	Lincoln: A Photobiography	$9.95	$8.96
4H12	The Monitor and Merrimac	$4.75	$4.28
4H13	Wee Sing America - CD	$9.99	$8.99
4H18	Hero Over Here	$5.75	$5.18
4H27	In Search of the Source	$11.95	$10.76
4H28	The World Wars	$25.99	$23.39
4H35	William Wilberforce	$6.95	$6.26
4H39	The Story of Thomas Alva Edison	$4.50	$4.05
4H42	South America Geography Unit	$6.95	$6.26
4H43	A Unit About Canada	$9.99	$8.99
4H44	Simon Bolivar	$4.99	$4.49
4H461	The Story of the USA Book 3	$11.95	$10.76
4H462	The Story of the USA Book 4	$11.95	$10.76
4H47	Timeline Figures - 4	$9.99	$8.99
4R05	The Perilous Road	$6.99	$6.29
4R06	By the Great Horn Spoon	$6.99	$6.29
4R08	Freedom Train	$5.99	$5.39
4R10	Shades of Gray	$5.99	$5.39
4R11	Turn Homeward, Hannalee	$5.99	$5.39
4R13	Old Yeller	$5.99	$5.39
4R15	Helen Keller	$5.99	$5.39
4R17	All-of-a-Kind Family	$6.50	$5.85
4R18	Thimble Summer	$6.99	$6.29
4R19	In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson	$5.99	$5.39
4R20	Plain Girl	$6.95	$6.26
4R22	Gone Away Lake	$6.00	$5.40
4R31	The Seventeenth Swap	$8.99	$8.09
4R33	Bruchko	$14.99	$13.49
4R34	The Wright Brothers	$5.99	$5.39
4R35	George Washington Carver	$7.99	$7.19
4R36	The Terrible Wave	$13.00	$11.70
4R38	Shoes For Everyone	$8.95	$8.06
4R39	Sing Down the Moon	$6.99	$6.29
4TBW	Core 4 Instructor's Guide: Introduction to American History, Part 2	$64.00	$57.60
BINDER3	BINDER3	$18.95	$17.06
Total Price :		$485.93	$437.34
If you are a Core Sonlighter then you can save $48.59 on this package of 49 items.

 

Discover key elements of American history from the War Between the States, till today with Special emphasis on U.S. social history. You may wish to use this program, with modification, as the basis for teaching more than one child in 2nd through 7th grades.

Curriculum Overview:

Sonlight Curriculum? Core 4 picks up where Core 3 leaves off. It covers the period from 1850 to the present.

This exciting tour provides an overview of political, economic, and military history through books 3 and 4 of Franklin Escher, Jr.'s The Story of the U.S.A.

The real thrill of Core 4 comes in Daniel Boorstin's Landmark History of the American People. There you will find out how Americans' unique perspective-such as our egalitarianism, our desire for change, and our "can-do" spirit — contributed to inventions like ready-to-wear clothing, department stores, and skyscrapers. You'll discover why standard time zones and "fast food" came into existence. You'll examine how mass immigration, women's suffrage, the labor movement and the Great Depression impacted the social, political, and economic climate of the country. You'll also discuss race relations.

Besides the main tour through U.S. history, you and your children will take side trips to South America and Canada.

You will find yourself living in the midst of history through Sonlight Curriculum? Read-Alouds like:

• All Sail Set (the Newbery Honor story of the greatest clipper ship ever built)
• Little Britches (the story of a real 8-year-old boy who moved to the prairies west of Denver in the early 1900s)
• Cheaper by the Dozen
• Moccasin Trail
• Miracles on Maple Hill
• and half a dozen more.

While you may have a difficult time laying aside the Read-Alouds each day, your children will have a tough time putting down the books they are assigned to read on their own:

• Fred Gipson's Old Yeller
• O'Dell's Sing Down the Moon
• Bette Bao Lord's In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
• and so many more!

Similar to the Core 3 program, Core 4 focuses on social more than civil, political, or military history. We reserve deep study in these areas for later years (see Core 7 and 10). Our concern at this level is to give your children an overview of American history, and an abiding thirst to learn more.

Fourth Year Bible readings include the Gospel of John, St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians, 1st and 2nd Samuel, the story of Esther, and a few Psalms and Proverbs. Besides the straight Bible reading, the program also includes two extremely popular workbook-oriented Bible studies: Learning About God from A to Z and Starting Strong. Please note that the Bible program is not included in the Core package anymore. However, Bible readings are still scheduled in the Instructor's Guides. See the Bible 4 program.

We give students one major research project during the year: a report on their home state or a planet. Of course the Core 4 instructor's guide explains the entire research and writing process.

Don't want to spend two years studying American history at this time? Please see the special program developed just for you, "One-Year Intro to American History".

Includes Bible reading and memory, History, Readers and Read-Alouds, plus a Core Instructor's Guide 4TB. Does not include any of the Required Resources or Recommended Resources.

Estimated time requirement for all subjects, including Science, Math and Language Arts on either the four- or five-day-per-week schedule: Child: 3 1/2-5 hrs/day; Parent: 2-3 hrs/day direct involvement; availability for remainder of time.

Can't decide what's best for your children?

• Visit our Choosing Forum or speak with a Sonlight Advisor.
• If you're a member of the Sonlighters Club, talk to the real experts -- homeschoolers who are using this program right now. Visit the Core 4 Discussion Forum

Read about the Sonlighters Club benefits you get when you purchase a Core program on our Sonlighers Club page.

More things you should know about our complete Core packages:

• The 7 Remarkable Benefits You'll Get from a Sonlight^® Core Program
• Why do we call it CORE when it doesn't include Language Arts or Math?
• Core Curriculum Scope and Sequence
• Core package Themes by Course Number
• Relative Difficulty Levels of Sonlight's Core Curricula
• How Can I Possibly Use a K Program with a Second Grader? What Makes a Sonlight^® Program Useful for Multiple Grades?