Are we qualified to talk about this?
We bought Sonlight Core Curriculum packages for what would be third through tenth grades in a traditional school. Our daughter, Kelly, used the program from fifth through tenth grade. Our son, Christian, used the program from third through eighth grade. This series mostly describes what we did for all the subject areas except math, music, and art. I have already written pretty extensively on this blog about what we did for math and plan to do a future series on our art art program. We bought most, but not all of our core materials from Sonlight and followed their curriculum guides with a fair amount of rigor. Like most other homeschoolers, we deviated in minor ways where we saw fit.
Results will vary…
We have no illusion that our kids are particularly brilliant (a BIG topic for a future series of blog posts) and the results are not all in yet so take our analysis with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, Kelly is scheduled to finish up high school this year with around 90 +/5 semester credits and an ACT composite score of 24. She is on track to earn a degree in Statistics at a National Research University about two years ahead of his peers. Christian is scheduled to finish up high school this year with 63 +/-1 semester credits and an ACT composite score of 27. He is on track to earn a BS degree in Applied Math about four years ahead of his peers.
Part 1. Why we did not continue with Susan Wise Bauer’s The Well Trained Mind
Part 2. Why we chose Sonlight rather than some other prepackaged curriculum (coming soon)
