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Core K with Readers K - 4-Day

For children 5-7 years of age.
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Regular Price: $311.52
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This package includes these 30 items:


BINDER3 KA01 KA02 KA03 KA05 KA06 KA08 KA14 KA15 KA16 KA18 KA19 KA20 KA21 KA23 KA24 KA25 KA28 KA29 KA32 KE101 KH02 KH03 KH08 KH10 KH11 KR01 KTBW KTR PA11

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BINDER3 BINDER3 $18.95 $17.06
KA01 The House at Pooh Corner $6.99 $6.29
KA02 The Story of Dr. Dolittle $6.50 $5.85
KA03 The Story About Ping $3.99 $3.59
KA05 The Llama Who Had No Pajama $8.00 $7.20
KA06 Richard Scarry's Please and Thank You Book $3.99 $3.59
KA08 Johnny Appleseed $10.95 $9.86
KA14 My Father's Dragon $7.95 $7.16
KA15 Dolphin Adventure $4.99 $4.49
KA16 The Light at Tern Rock $4.99 $4.49
KA18 The Apple & the Arrow $8.95 $8.06
KA19 A Grain of Rice $4.99 $4.49
KA20 The Hundred Dresses $7.00 $6.30
KA21 Twenty and Ten $5.99 $5.39
KA23 The Boxcar Children $4.99 $4.49
KA24 In Grandma's Attic $6.99 $6.29
KA25 Five True Dog Stories $3.99 $3.59
KA28 Family Under the Bridge $5.99 $5.39
KA29 James Herriot's Treasury for Children $19.95 $17.96
KA32 Mary on Horseback $4.99 $4.49
KE101 Sonlight's Create-A-Calendar $9.99 $8.99
KH02 Wild Places $12.99 $11.69
KH03 Living Long Ago $12.99 $11.69
KH08 Timeline Figures - K $5.99 $5.39
KH10 Usborne Internet-Linked Children’s Encyclopedia $14.99 $13.49
KH11 I Heard Good News Today $12.99 $11.69
KR01 Fun Tales $19.99 $17.99
KTBW Instructor's Guide Basic K $57.50 $51.75
KTR Readers K Schedule $3.50 $3.15
PA11 The Real Mother Goose $9.95 $8.96
Total Price : $311.52 $280.37  
 
If you are a Core Sonlighter then you can save $31.15 on this package of 30 items.

 


Designed to open the eyes of early elementary age children to the much bigger world of which they are a part so that they yearn to learn more. You may wish to use this program, with minor modification, as the basis for teaching one child in C through 2nd, or more than one child in Pre-K through 2nd grades.

Curriculum Overview:

Cuddle up with the little ones as you discover together the wonders of the world way beyond the borders of your town and far beyond the limits of most early elementary students' imaginations. As with the Sonlight® Pre-K program, our purpose this year is to establish the fundamental attitude that learning is fun. We like learning!

The Sonlight Curriculum® Core K program is a "wonder" year. It is meant to introduce your children to a wide range of topics that, we hope, will whet their appetites to find out more. The beautifully illustrated Usborne Living Long Ago, Wild Places, and Children's Encyclopedia lead you on your adventures. A small sampling of the kinds of places you'll go, people you'll see, and questions you'll ask:

  • Why are Watussi men over 6 feet tall, on average, while their pygmy neighbors are less than 4-1/2 feet high?
  • How have languages diverged?
  • What kinds of houses do people around the world live in?
  • What kinds of foods do they eat?
  • What sports do they play?
  • Are there differences in their arts, music, fashion, modes of transportation?
  • and countless others

In history, you will spend a week studying the biblical account of creation, then touch on the evolutionary view. Then you're off on a hop-skip-and-jump survey of those portions of history where biblical and secular scholars generally agree: one-day stops in Ancient Egypt, Rome, Medieval Europe, England at the time of the Industrial Revolution, and more. You will study world geography and climates, and how people have learned to grow food in the midst of deserts. Interspersed among these tantalizing glimpses of other times and other places, you and your children will meet 15 (Protestant) heroes of the faith including people like:

  • William and Catherine Booth, the founders of the Salvation Army
  • David Livingstone, one of the early European explorers of southern Africa
  • Menno Simons, the founder of the pacifistic group of Christians we now know as Mennonites
  • and a dozen more.

Again, none of these studies is in depth. We look at just enough to pique your children's interest, and leave them pleading for more. Meanwhile, you and your children will enjoy a huge stack of Read-Aloud adventures beginning with the Robinson Crusoe-like story of two brothers and two sisters, orphans, who decide to fend for themselves in a railroad boxcar during the Great Depression. Little do they realize that the grandfather whom they have never met really loves and wants to care for them. But The Boxcar Children is just the beginning.

  • The fascinating story of William Tell ( The Apple and the Arrow),
  • The hilarious exploits retold in My Father's Dragon
  • The Story of Dr. Doolittle and his great floating zoo
  • James Herriot's animal stories for children
  • A biography of Johnny Appleseed
  • The heart-rending and thought-provoking tale of The Hundred Dresses
  • and many more!

In Sonlight® K, we provide an instructor's guide that has model questions (and, in many cases, answers) for all the Read-Alouds. These are questions and answers that address your children's general comprehension of the stories you are reading as well as details of science and nature that you might otherwise overlook (for example, "What is a tortoise?" "What are tangerines?" and "What is a boar?"--items mentioned in My Father's Dragon, and discussed in Week 6) Cultural literacy questions ("What is linen?" "What is an alphorn?"--from The Apple and the Arrow, discussed in Week 5) Geography ("Locate Brazil on a map." "Locate Devon and Wales."--from The Story of Doctor Doolittle, week 20), and so forth.

If you follow our Bible program, you and your child will read the entire biblical narrative from Genesis to Revelation in the long-cherished Egermeier's Story Bible, a version that, while simplifying the text for young people, remains remarkably true to the original. 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 C Bible program.

Includes all History and Read-Aloud books, plus a Core Instructor's Guide KTB. The Regular Readers program is designed to be used by children entering Kindergarten with little or no knowledge of the alphabet or letter sounds. If your child is already able to read three-letter, short-vowel words, you should use our Advanced Readers program.

Estimated time requirement for all kindergarten subjects, including Science, Math and Language Arts, using either the Five-Day or Four-Day program as scheduled:Student: 1.5-2 hours; Parent: 1-1.5 hrs/day. direct involvement.

Have questions? Talk to the real experts in our Sonlight Curriculum Discussion Forums--other families who are using this very curriculum right now. We have a special forum just for this curriculum level:
More things you should know about our complete core packages:

Required Items

World/USA Markable Map and Markers

World/USA Markable Map and Markers

Includes two big full-color maps in one plus a four-color set of fine-tip water-based markers! A Required Resource in every Sonlight Core program from K—300....

Learn more about the World/USA Markable Map and Markers package.

$26.49
Club Price: $23.84

Item #MAP

Required Resources Package

This Required Resources package contains every item you need for this Core in one simple bundle....

Learn more about the Required Resources Package package.

$49.48
Club Price: $44.53

Item #RR600
Book of Time

Book of Time

Pre-printed time line in a spiral-bound book—for use throughout your homeschooling adventure. Required Resource for Sonlight Core programs...
$22.99
Club Price: $20.69

Item #KH06

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5 out of 5 stars by MELISSA B on 2009-01-07
This Core is a really gentle intro to history for children that do not need picture books to bridge that gap for them. I think this is best used so far in our family for ages 5 and 7. My girls are doing K and 2nd grade this year. Last year we had taken a run at this core but I needed to go in a bit of a different direction though the kids loved it. We have been using Sonlight since 2005. My 7 year old is using the readers 1 and my 5 year old is doing readers K and some of readers 1. My girls just gobble up this core. The boxcar Children is so well loved and they act out the stories each day we read a chapter. We love love love the poems in Llama and Mother goose and recite them together each day. Even my 2 year old son sits on my lap to hear a bulk of the stories. We do notebook pages, in that I print out coloring sheets to either go with the bible or story selection for the day, so the girls can color if they wish while I read. At the end of the week we put them into a very large one page notebook spread (collage style) and at the end of the year it makes a great keepsake. I also print images of the history figures I find online and place those on the markable map we have hanging up. That adds a nice dynamic to know who and where we have studied. The book of time so far has not really been a huge hit for us, though I we do add the figures to it and I'm thinking as the girls get older it will mean something. I would love to do a wall timeline. I am having a new baby in May, and after taking a break a bit of last year to do FIAR I felt drawn back to Sonlight this year. I love that I just have to open and go and am using all Sonlight this year, LA, science and the Core. It's such a nice feeling not to have to do any planning and to know that even my dh could pick up in a pinch and do things for me if needed. I am always amazed at how much great info my girls retain from their Sonlight time. My older dd says school is so fun when it's Sonlight time. It truly is the way I wish I'd been taught.

5 out of 5 stars by MARY LOU G on 2008-08-25
Our family just finished using this program - this kids were 5 & 7 when we started, now they are 6 & 8 yrs old. This program is soooo good! I'm sad that it's over, so we decided to do it again! They learned so much but we think that it is so full of information that they will have a better understanding now that they are a bit older. We really enjoyed the geography & time lines; the read alouds are wonderful. This is such a well constructed program, everyday I just open my binder & look at what day I"m on and follow the directions. I don't have to be an expert - Sonlight has done all the hard work for me. I just have to read the questions to the kids and start a discussion. Thank you SONLIGHT! OUR FAMILY LOVES THIS CORE!

5 out of 5 stars by BIA W on 2008-04-22
This is the Core that introduced us to Sonlight this past year. We are hooked! I used it, with minimal adjustment with my 7 and 4.5 yo's. They both enjoyed it thoroughly - so did I! Great book selection, and even the chapter books w/out pictures kept my children's attention - now that only Sonlight can do!

5 out of 5 stars by Kathy A. on 2007-08-15
Our child utilized this core back when it was named Core K. This is an excellant curriculum for children ages 6-7 years of age to be utilized as a first grade curriculum.