Now I know that it is only June, but I have almost all of our new homeschool material ordered for next year. I am so excited!! We have been following the Well Trained Mind/classical model with slight modification for the last 4 years. This year with the addition of a new baby and the fact that there is also a two year old, I went with Sonlight Core 3. We aren’t using Sonlight for every subject, we still like our Apologia science, Saxon Math and Rod and Staff Language materials. In fact, the Rod and Staff materials are all I have left to buy, but I like to go to their on site bookstore and look through their seconds shelves. We only live an hour from their publishing house in Crockett, KY and it is such a beautiful drive. Hopefully, we will get to do that this week sometime.
We are really excited about Sonlight for a few reasons. Reason #1: Our kids LOVE to read, so the readers and read alouds will be a great fit. Each of the older 2 have read 100 books since the end of last August, and these were not small wimpy books either! Our soon to be fourth grade daughter is currently reading Nancy Drew #1 and our soon to be second grade boy is reading A Series of Unfortunate Events #3. Reason #2: We have been using The Story of the World for our history spine and wanted a change of pace from that program. It is a wonderful curriculum and we have enjoyed it, but when any choice turns a loved subject into a dreaded subject, it is time to change. Besides, we wanted some American History this year. Reason #3: I find myself with less and less time to plan out every move we make and with Sonlight the work is done for me. I will still have to schedule the few subjects that we are doing apart from Sonlight, but the load will be lighter for me. Reason #4: I am looking to streamline our day and make room for the things that we want to do but rarely get to do…like art, music and latin. I am hopeful that we will be able to accomplish this in the upcoming year.
Ahhh…now I have to go clean off book shelves to fit all of these books on when they arrive next week!
