Sonlight helps my kids be passionate about learning, loving and living. I love when somebody says, while reading a Sonlight book, 'Can we do that?' or 'I wonder what that's like.' From one book or chapter, we explore so much more … Every school year we start and end with a picture. They had a theory about how Sonlight would alter their physical appearance and wanted to see how knowledge would change their heads! Looking back at this picture, Lucy said, 'It didn't change how we look, but it changed my heart.' Lucas (6), Lucy (5) and Laurelin (2) are studying Core C and P4/5 Multi-Subject in their fourth year of Sonlight study.

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.

I know that even at a very young age, my kids are getting an excellent, well-rounded education … just from listening to these wonderful stories! We love that Sonlight introduces us to books that we would have never known about. Before deploying to the Middle East this past spring, my husband wanted family portraits taken. The photographer asked us to bring props that show the essence of our family, and we knew we had to take one of our Sonlight books. Ava (5) and Delaney (4) are starting their second Sonlight year, with the P4/5 Multi-Subject Package. Here, they eagerly absorb Dad's rendition of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales from P3/4.