Sonlight inspires creativity and freedom and leaves plenty of time in our schedule to branch out. After reading 'The Snowy Day' [from The 20th Century Children's Book Treasury] for P3/4 during our lackluster winter, the girls decided to make chalk angels, since we couldn't make snow angels. Mommy outlined them, and the girls colored them in! In their third year with Sonlight, Jenna (5), Sarah (3) and Autumn (1) are using Cores A and P3/4.

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.

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.