Sonlight motivated my family to step outside the box and experience learning naturally, as it occurs. For example, after reading How Flowers Grow in Core A, we have since enjoyed taking numerous nature walks. Recently, our three little people wanted to research the life cycle of rabbits. When they're grown, they may or may not remember how to calculate the circumference of a circle, but they will remember exploring nature, raising rabbits, nursing chicks and collecting eggs together. Sara Grace (7), Joseph (6) and Benjamin (5) are exploring Core B together in their second Sonlight year.

I appreciate that Sonlight is not dogmatic in its approach to education. On the more controversial topics in science and history it offers different viewpoints and allows the parents to decide how to present them. Sonlight also sparks our daughters' creativity. After studying weather in science last year, Alena was constantly looking for opportunities to apply her knowledge in real life.  Whether it was spontaneously building a rain gauge or being thrilled by a shower of hail, she turned into a budding meteorologist. Here, the 7-year-old uses a book from Science A to identify clouds. Her family has used Sonlight for six years.   

We love the wide variety of literature selections Sonlight includes in each Core. Through the engaging literary characters, inspiring missionary biographies and excellent history books, my children have grown in their understanding of people around them, in their heart for the world, in their awe of God's power at work today, and in their sense of place and purpose in this world. They giggled their way through Dad's reading of My Father's Dragon. How would we ever have found this wonderful book without Sonlight? Strat (5) and Joy (7) are studying Core C in their second Sonlight year.