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.

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.

I'm so thankful the Lord led us to Sonlight, where so much of the work is done for me. When I found out we were expecting our fourth child, I knew I would need a curriculm to help lighten the load. If it wasn't for Sonlight, homeschooling would feel like an overwhelming, impossible task. We love the material and the worldview so much. In their third Sonlight year, Ruby Mae (2), Dad, Aaron (3, P4/5 Multi-Subject) and Isaac (6, Core C) enjoy some world history with engaging illustrations.