Core P4/5

Bless your children with a great gift

At their best, the preschool years are a wonderful time of play, snuggling, stories and learning. This complete, gentle program helps you give your children just what they need at this age.

Fun, memories and development

Cuddle on the couch as you read with your kids. Laugh while you do skill-building handson activities together. Open up the world to your young explorers.

My oldest daughter and I carefully selected the best materials for 4- and 5-year-olds. Then, with the help of my preschool-age grandsons, we wove them into a relaxed program. Core P4/5 takes only 20 to 40 minutes a day.

Your Instructor's Guide clearly shows you what to do each day. You read wonderful books, build foundational skills for future learning, choose from many delightful hands-on activities and simply enjoy your children.

You also see learning spill over into playtime. The lively characters you meet in your storybooks show up in spontaneous play. The books and activities lead to all sorts of child-initiated, brain-building creativity!

Books you'll adore

I often hear parents say they owned many books before starting Sonlight. But once Sonlight delivered books to their doorstep, their kids only wanted to read their "school" books. Again and again! What can I say other than children simply love these stories, pictures and characters?

What are the educational benefits?

Sure, you're excited for bonding experiences with your kids ... you're certainly glad they'll love the books. But you also want them to learn!

This is where Core P4/5 gets really good. For all the relaxed fun and special time in store here, your children will learn by leaps and bounds as well!

As the U.S. Department of Education affirms, reading out loud to children is the most important thing you can do to teach what they need to know for future success in reading.¹ Reading expert Dr. Kylene Beers agrees. Her research demonstrates that the single greatest predictor of children's future success is how much people read to them before they enter Kindergarten--more than socioeconomic or even genetic factors.

Reading aloud to your children greatly increases their vocabulary and attention span. Did you know that basic children's books contain a much wider vocabulary than most college-educated adults use in normal speech? Watch your children effortlessly learn the words they need to know through your reading.

Kids also get much-needed times of intimacy with you as you snuggle together to read. The physical affection they get in your arms tells them you love them dearly and are there for them. How fortunate are the children whose parents give such great gifts!

What other goals will you meet with this Core?

• Prepare your kids for reading by teaching alphabet sounds and verbal skills.
• Develop key life skills--from following sequenced instructions to using scissors.
• Help your kids see that you are a great source of wisdom and guidance.
• Give your children a basic understanding of the physical world around them through fundamental science concepts.
• Prepare your children with broad foundations in Reading Readiness, Science, Art, Bible, the concept of History and more.
• Expose your kids to the world outside your town through entertaining stories from around the globe.
• Help your children see that school is fun.

Your Core P4/5 program includes:

Instructor's Guide

Accomplish all this without writing a single lesson plan! The flexible daily plans in your Instructor's Guide make it simple. You can follow the Guide exactly or easily customize it to fit your family's needs. Either way, you get to focus on the joy of teaching your children. Request a sample of this guide.

World Cultures

Discover what people do and how they live around the world. Easy-to-understand literature and captivating illustrations introduce the concept of historical time. Enjoy these highlights:

• Compare how people used to cook, shop and farm over 100 years ago with how we do those things now.
• See what people do at work all day--meet farmers, bakers, nurses, architects, pilots and more.
• Rejoice with a Thai family who hears about Jesus after young Bradit accidentally knocks the head off the family idol.

Read-Alouds

Build fond memories as your kids snuggle in to hear classic children's tales and heartwarming stories about people of great character:

• Enjoy timeless tales of a resourceful and thoughtful little girl named Milly-Molly- Mandy.
• Listen to Uncle Wiggly's funny and adventurous stories of generosity, kindness and more.
• Uncover a treasure chest of classic nursery rhymes filled with wisdom, laughter and fun.

Bible

Introduce your young ones to the Bible with a beautiful collection of 128 stories from Scripture. Rich, full-color illustrations and thoughtful questions help you get the most from your reading.

Language Arts

Teach your children the sounds of the alphabet through engaging pictures and memorable rhymes. Reinforce each letter sound while browsing the stimulating First Thousand Words book.

Science

Enjoy this winsome introduction to farm life, seasons, weather, the ocean, simple machines, plants, animals and more. Perfectly targeted to this age group, your children learn science principles through vivid illustrations--from how the earth spins ... to how camouflage helps animals ... to how scuba divers explore the sea. Be amazed at how much your children pick up with these easy-to-understand books and activities.

Readiness Skills

Four carefully sequenced workbooks help you effectively teach your unique children. How? By helping you discover your children's learning strengths and weaknesses.

The Developing the Early Learner series helps kids have a great time while building skills in four major areas: Motor (e.g., left-right tracking and hand-eye coordination); Visual (e.g., similarities and figure-ground distinction); Auditory (e.g., similarities and memory) and Comprehension (e.g., categories and sequence). You also get diagnostic charts and exercises for testing and remedying delays. As many Sonlighters have said, these are "not your average workbooks!" Don't miss these valuable tools.

It all adds up

These components add up to a wonderfully delightful preschool program that helps you give your children what they need to grow. Finish Core P4/5 with great memories, a closer relationship with your children, significant improvements in foundational skills and a fire for learning that will continue to grow in the Sonlight years ahead.

1. Becoming a Nation of Readers: The Report of the Commission on Reading. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, 1985, p. 23.

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