The Instructor's Guide helps me to be prepared each day, with lessons that I'm confident of and interested in teaching. The Markable Maps and the History Timeline Figures have given me a big-picture view of world history and geography that I lacked after all my schooling, including college! The characters in the Read-Alouds feel like family and become part of our daily discussion, teaching and training. Hanna (4, P4/5 Multi-Subject), Claire (7, Core B) and Dad observe tadpoles scooped from a neighbor's pond on a rainy day.

With Sonlight as a guide, the countries and people of the world seem like neighbors. God brought our book-loving family together from all over the world. No matter what the reading level, Sonlight has books to entertain, excite and challenge our children to the next level. We're quickly becoming book snobs! Only the best literature, like the books we receive in our Sonlight box each year, make it into our school time and bedtime reading. The H family, including Grace (8), Jack (7), Ana (5) and Will (4), have been exploring their world with Sonlight for four years. Here, they're reading Maps and Globes from Core C.

Thanks to Sonlight's training, my daughter Rachel is in the habit of integrating everything she learns into the 'big picture' of time and place. Before she can read anything, she looks at her timeline to understand where the story takes place in the context of history. She'll also find the story's location on the map. She loves to peruse The Timeline Book [RR120] from beginning to end. I feel she has a great grasp on the big picture. In her fourth year of Sonlight, Rachel (7) uses Google to locate where Little Pear (from Core B) took place.