Dad and mom Take the Lead with Sonlight
Searching for a homeschool method that blends tutorial rigor with real-world connection? Sonlight equips you to show, mentor, and develop alongside your youngsters — no educating diploma required.
Construct Household Bonds with Sonlight Curriculum
At Sonlight, we imagine that homeschooling is a lifestyle and an overarching perspective towards the world. The world is on the market to be marveled at, loved, explored, and discovered from. When you catch on to this concept, you’ll find it straightforward to see academic worth in nearly every little thing you do.
Discover the Surprise of the World
Although Sonlight has particular occasions put aside for concentrated studying of books, writing of papers, and dealing by math texts, our curriculum encourages dad and mom to search for “educating moments” all through the day.
Our world is a spot of surprise and exploration. Simply have a look round — potential studying experiences may be discovered at each flip. Use your every day encounters with the unfamiliar to show your youngsters.
In the event that they (otherwise you) do not perceive one thing, look it up. Use a dictionary or encyclopedia. Go to the library. Use the Web. Perform a little research! Seek for the reply collectively. Make it an journey.
After you discover a solution, increase the educational expertise by in search of a sensible software to bolster the lesson. Bear in mind: not every little thing your youngsters must know may be discovered in books. Some issues can solely be discovered by doing.
An Partaking Course of
Sonlight requires vital parental involvement. Though some issues — primary math information, for example — are finest discovered by rote memorization and uncooked repetition, most different topics revenue vastly from the presence and involvement of an older, extra skilled individual. You deliver your personal data and values to the educational course of. You possibly can inject your insights into the dialogue.
Actually, one of many prime causes you need to wish to homeschool is to remain engaged along with your youngsters and their academic course of… to go alongside to your youngsters your particular mental and cultural heritage.
Do not ask the questions in Sonlight’s Teacher’s Guides unthinkingly. If you are going to use them, ask them in such a method that you would be able to discern the true import of what your baby is saying. Ask follow-up questions of your personal. Dig out the which means of what they’re studying.
You’ve got the chance to function a mentor to your personal youngsters. Do not waste the chance! Work together along with your youngsters. Ask questions. Level out similarities and contrasts between what you learn in a single e-book and what you learn in one other. When you discover that two books disagree, level out the disagreement and pursue an answer to the issue. Present your youngsters by instance how mature, nicely—educated folks work together with supplies they disagree with.
There are areas of life — expertise, views, attitudes — that may by no means be handed on to our youngsters by phrases alone. These are the intangible qualities and elusive blessings we would like our youngsters to take pleasure in: issues like a optimistic vanity; a way of belonging and of being beloved; a love for studying; and an appreciation for magnificence. All of those are attitudes, values and strategies you’ll be able to go on to your youngsters that they’ll simply miss in the event you merely hand them a stack of books.
Sonlight’s Academic Objectives
Search First God’s Kingdom
Sonlight believes the first purpose Jesus set earlier than all of us who declare to be His disciples is to “search first His [God’s] kingdom and His righteousness” (Matthew 6:33). We wish to maintain that purpose in entrance of ourselves and our college students always.
A Learner’s Coronary heart
What good does it do to fill youngsters’s minds with data in the event that they by no means learn to be taught, or in the event that they by no means purchase a heartfelt need for training?
We would like our youngsters to develop up with the identical perspective and conviction Solomon had: “[Wisdom] is extra worthwhile than silver and yields higher returns than gold. She is extra valuable than rubies; nothing you need can examine along with her” (Proverbs 3:13-15).
Honor Christ Boldly
Sonlight believes the Christian religion is just not merely meant to grant us everlasting private consolation; it’s meant to vary the best way we dwell and, by us, to change the world round us. That is why, from the earliest years, we embody supplies that assist youngsters memorize Scripture and perceive what the Bible is all about.
However the legacy of God’s folks extends far past the Scriptures. We would like youngsters to sense the thrill and problem of following Jesus in huge and little issues — to see, know, perceive, and be keen to make the sacrifices that they might be referred to as upon to make if they’re to satisfy God’s functions of their lives.
Ambassadors for Christ
Most curricula (particularly Christian curricula) appear to focus fully on “message” content material — what youngsters must know and imagine so they’ll rapidly acknowledge and reject no matter is fake.
However the Apostle Paul speaks of ambassadors for Christ, and ambassadors do not merely establish that which is overseas. They have interaction and work together with no matter is just not a part of “their very own.” Ambassadors for Christ have to be taught not solely to acknowledge what is fake; they have to be taught to find the peculiar strengths and weaknesses of opposing views.
True Students
By means of the books now we have chosen and thru our Teacher’s Guides, Sonlight seeks to “stroll its discuss” and reveal true scholarship. Some folks could query the worth of high quality scholarship. We imagine it has a direct and beneficial affect on an individual’s ambassadorship. The one who has “accomplished his homework” is in a much better place to speak successfully with an individual who’s coming from a really completely different perspective than he who has not.
Cultural Literacy
There’s a sure primary set of background data folks should know if they’re to get alongside in a tradition — not to mention to affect that tradition. Sonlight seeks to assist its college students transfer far past the fundamentals. We wish to increase world — changers: individuals who will make a distinction — for good.
That is why you may discover so many well-known books — a few of which, particularly within the older years, are fairly un-Christian in our curriculum. We imagine our youngsters have to be made conscious of those books and their content material in order that they’ve a foundational base of information and, extra importantly, in order that they are going to be ready to answer these cultural influences in a powerful and Godly trend.
