Love this type of video! ❤ We cherished our times reading Leading Little Ones to God...several kids got saved during that book. So, so good for family devotions and discussions. Stick with Sonlight....its amazing! You're doing a great job, mama! ❤
Understood Betsy was by far my favorite of the year. It was the last book we finished and I just cried at the end. So grateful for the beautiful story of its "I can do hard things" mentality and genuine love of extended family and friends. I needed it probably more than my kids.
Sonlight has such a special place in my heart. We have used it for kindergarten through 4th grade - the books (which come with included laughs & tears), the talks, the thinking about & praying for the entire world… ❤
Very helpful video! I'm deciding what route to take for our next homeschool year. We started with Build Your Library but I'm considering switching to Sonlight. Thank you 🙂
If you don’t mind me asking. What makes you want to switch from byl. We have level 0 but I’m not sure if we will dive in or not but I keep feeling pulled to sonlight.
Honestly, I love both programs and I still get book recommendations from BYL! I actually made a video about why I switched: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SU6wKk6zyPs.html
Thank you!! I love your review videos so much. I have HBL-B for next year and thumbing through the books, I was a little nervous about Child’s History of the World and Leading Little Ones so I’m glad you said that about them 😁
Thank you for this helpful review! This will be our 2nd year using Sonlight! We really enjoyed last year. The one thing we struggled with were the read alouds. I felt like my son wasn’t interested in most of them and I was doing all the reading. As a tired mama many days, I would think, “Why am I reading this and he is checked out.” Do you have any tips on how to make the read alouds more fun?
I would say try and pay attention to the books he does like and maybe switch out a few of the read alouds. Sometimes my kids get a bit burnt out on historical reads and so we will add in a fantasy. But I also do often have a fun book going at night time 🤷🏼♀️
I’m so excited to use Sonlight! I am debating using HBL-A for US history or NotGrass our Star Spangled Story. It’s so hard to choose a US History curriculum! But I think I’ve settled on HBL B and C for world history and I’m pretty pumped 😊
My mom did our lessons one day while I was away and after she read a Child’s History of the World she asked to read it when we were done. I agreed with her that it was excellent!
I am so drawn to sunlight! But the price $$…im trying to find a way to make this work. How crucial is the teachers guide? If I bought the books second-hand and fostered great discussion, would that work? This just sounds amazing.
Oh man, the instructors guide really makes the program! Sonlight is about to have it's annual sale, but I would also recommend checking out the Facebook B/S/T group for used programs!
This is the video that originally inspired me to start looking into Sonlight and we have decided to do hbl B this year, which ive already aquired. However, Around the World with Kate and Mack was swapped out with an update (but its still included in the IG) because its out of print, but im considering picking it up from thrift books because it looks good. Obviously you cant compare it with what they swapped it with, but do you feel like it was "that" good to recommend picking it up anyways ?
@@sciencemama "Who Are Frontier People Groups?" I'll probably pick it up, then. I have other books I'm going to order from thrift books anyways, so may as well.
If you do narration with your kids, how do you make sure each of them has an independent voice? Some of my kids are quicker to answer questions than others or take more leading to talk about something. I'm having trouble making sure the less engaged kids come up with something that is from their own mind, not copying a sibling.
