Level P3/4 Parent's Companion 2011 Version

Fiction, Fairy Tales, and Fun for Little Learners

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A very practical tool to guide you through Core P3/4 and help you capitalize teachable moments to share with your little ones.

Parent's Companion makes teaching your toddler as easy and rich as you want it to be:

At this early beginning, please feel free to "just read" your children's favorite stories with them. We don't want you to feel that you must do something. So the supplemental resource we've created for you to use with Sonlight's Level P3/4 is designed—on purpose—to be very practically simple, yet very easy and fun to draw from for those "teachable" moments when you know your little one's eyes, ears, and mind are wide open.

You can enjoy Level P3/4 by just cuddling on the couch and reading with your children. But if you're like most Sonlighters, we know you want them to continually delight in their "learning adventure" and thirst for more.

So your special Parent's Companion helps you:

  • Fuel their imagination (and memory) with easy, creative activities for every story included.
  • Stir your own vision with encouragement, inspiration, and links to more optional resources.
  • Enjoy simple checklists to track your progress (no strict schedule to follow).

Your Parent's Companion doesn't have a "schedule" like you'll find in the Sonlight Instructor's Guides for later levels. We simply list the stories by trimester and suggest that you check them off as you read them. If your child wants to read Give a Mouse a Cookie fifteen times in a row—let her do it. And if she wants to skip a book or two "ahead" in the list: go ahead and do that. The goal here is: have fun together!

It goes way beyond the checklist to help you know you've enjoyed each story at least once. Your Parent's Companion offers pages of inspiration you can use to create bonding opportunities—build the relationship between you and your preschooler—and foster in them a lifelong thrill in the discovery process.

The Parent's Companion is great for you, too. Take in everything from quotes and tips to make homeschooling easier and more rewarding to practical notes on organizing and cleaning. There's plenty of "bite-sized nuggets" of help you can use to keep your home running more smoothly all year long—even outside of school time.

The P3/4 year is an introduction to homeschooling, so this Parent's Companion is not an Instructor's Guide. Once you begin with P4/5 you can experience all the joys and benefits of Sonlight's IGs including Forum access, schedule and notes, repurchase options and much, much more!

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5 out of 5 stars by Julianne D on 2011-02-02
This program was a fantastic start. My first little one loved the special time of going through these books. I liked how it was structured to keep you reading to your child, but not so structured that it felt rigid. I would highly recommend!

3 out of 5 stars by Rhea H on 2011-01-11
I guess I was hoping for a little scheduling and maybe at least a list of items to have on hand, sometimes. I realize that the point was to "just have fun" this year, but for those of us looking for a little more, this definitely does not have it. If you want to be more laid back, that is easy enough to do, but if you want to do more, than you find yourself doing exactly what Sonlight is continually emphasizing you DON'T need to do - coming up with a schedule and projects and material lists. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Sonlight, and plan on using it still, but this was just my personal opinion of the Parent's Companion.

5 out of 5 stars by CATHY H on 2010-04-26
I love that this guide is a checklist instead of a detailed schedule. I think it reminds me to just relax and enjoy my time with my children. Instead of trying to stick to some rigid schedule...or beat myself up over not having completed everything some schedule says I am suppose to do. I also like that sonlight doesn't list a million crazy projects that I need to do with all of the stories. The books themselves are so fabulous, that any bright child will come up with their own projects and activities to build upon the stories. And I think the learning that comes from these natural, child-led activities is so much greater. I have tried other programs that have all of these crazy complicated projects to do with each picture book. Those may work for some. But I have found that there is very little learning that takes place by completing those projects. When I see my children acting out a book that I have read, or drawing a picture of one of the characters, I see so much more imagination being used.