Core K
Introduction to the World: Cultures
Are you new to Sonlight, or homeschooling in general? If so, please take a look at our Newcomer K package! It's our recommended complete homeschool curriculum in one, easy to order package.
Knights, volcanoes, Stone-Age Indians, and rainforest adventures await!
You'll laugh, cry and wonder in awe as you sail the seven seas, traverse the highest mountains, roam fertile plains, and trek uncharted wildernesses as timeless tales, stirring biographies and engaging historical fiction help you and your children discover how people used to live.
INSTRUCTOR'S GUIDE
A simple roadmap to successful homeschooling!
The Core K Instructor's Guide will:
- Save you from the pain, frustration, and wasted time of researching, developing, and sustaining your own curriculum.
- Save you from EVER having to develop another lesson plan.
- Save you from pushing your kids too hard or pacing your year too slowly (and having to cram at the end).
- Save you from burnout.
HISTORY & GEOGRAPHY
Mysterious people, far-away places, long-ago times!
History & Geography K takes you and your children on an exciting, whirlwind tour of world cultures, history and geography. You and your kids will sail into many ports and...
- Discover what it was like to live in a castle.
- Marvel at how children used to dress to sleep and play.
- Take a spin in the first car, plane, balloon and rocket ship.
- Encounter the slave trader who later wrote one of the most popular hymns of all time.
- Visit dangerous mountains, lush jungles and barren deserts.
- And much more.
READ-ALOUDS
Bonding through books...
Slow down, get a cup of tea, and nestle together as you read 22 enriching and beloved books to your children throughout the year.
- Discover four lively orphan children who live on berries, bread and a little meat in an abandoned boxcar.
- Marvel at the cleverness of a dolphin family that is attacked by sharks.
- Learn lifetime lessons with peasant Pong Lo as he wins a kingdom with a grain of rice.
These and many more tantalizing tales promise to build family bonds and a love for learning in your children.
READERS
Designed to build reading skill and confidence!
- Perfect for children ready to learn the alphabet and begin reading.
- Teaches letter sounds from easiest to hear to hardest.
- Has kids read stories as soon as they learn a few letter sounds.
- Kids apply what they learn.
Readers K Package:
- Designed for children who are ready to learn the alphabet.
- First stories use common letters that children find easy to recognize (p, t, m, and so forth). Later stories include less common letters and those whose sounds are harder to distinguish (y, e, z, x, q).
- Features the Sonlight-exclusive Fun Tales.
OR Readers 1 Package:
- Designed for students who know the alphabet and are becoming comfortable with three-letter words.
- By the end of this program your children will be ready to read chapter books.
OR Readers 2 Package:
- Ideal for those who have progressed to reading long-vowel, 5- and 6-letter words with moderate fluency and who require extra white space between sentences and fewer words on a page.
- Books sport short chapters, lots of illustrations, and an easy-to-hold size.
- Eighteen easy reader books carry your children into engaging worlds of imagination.