5 Reasons We LOVE Sonlight! | What You Should Know about Sonlight Curriculum's HBL Cores

Our family has used Sonlight for many years, and we especially appreciate their high-school-level History/Bible/Literature cores. In this video, I talk about the top reasons why we love using this curriculum and the benefits I've seen in it. There's no one right curriculum choice for every family, but as a family living overseas, we have found Sonlight to be a convenient way to achieve the rigorous, literature-based learning that we enjoy so much in our homeschool (and I do mean ENJOY. For us, it's okay if we don't finish the school day in an hour or two, because homeschool is so fun, it's basically the stuff we'd be doing in our free time, anyways!)

WELCOME //
I'm Rachel, a mom of two and the oldest in a family of 8 kids. I'm a second-generation homeschooler who is passionate about education. I'm originally from Michigan, but am living overseas. My two young boys and teaching homeschool lessons to my youngest sisters keep me busy, but I make time for writing and for making Youtube videos, too! On this channel, you can expect videos featuring books and homeschool curriculum, homeschool tips for hard days, our journey raising bilingual kids, and vlogs about the intentional adventure that our homeschool lifestyle allows! Subscribe to join our family here:

Expect two videos a week, uploaded at 7:30 a.m. EST on Mondays and Thursdays.

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[SummerMeyers]

Yes to not wanting my kids to grow up in an echo-chamber! Having our kids home is such a blessing, but it's easy to fall in the trap of over protecting or limiting exposure to other types of thinking. Big applause to Sonlight for being diverse! 👏👏💕

[MommaonMission]

I looove that Sonlight does the work of scheduling and book-choosing for you!

[michelleb]

This is one of the best videos on Sonlight I’ve seen over the 11 years I’ve been homeschooling! ❤

[MyHomeYourHomeOurHome]

Amen!!!! Wonderful list! Some of the toughest books from Sonlight (The Chosen, The Outsiders, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, etc.) are now some of my favorites. And Sonlight got my younger sister (a struggling reader) to fall in love with reading when it introduced her to Jane Eyre (of all things! haha!). LOVE it!

[sciencemama]

This video makes me even more excited about choosing Sonlight for next year!!

[ourthriftyhomeschool]

I love your point about reading hard books! That is something I need to be willing to step out of my comfort zone as my kids are getting older!

[brittanyolga]

I love the idea of learning through literature!!! I often choose the readers from Sonlight to read for our read alouds ! Great video as always 🥰

[marysmemoriesinmotion]

A nice review on the curriculum 👍 I noticed both your and Rian's videos pop up. It is always nice to get two reviews 😊

[toriwill]

So helpful!! Thank you so so much!! Love your view on all this!

[JoyfulNoiseLearning]

Rachel, you pretty much described me and my decision fatigue!! I have enjoyed planning my own literature based curriculum the past few years, but I am way ready for others to decide for me 😬😬

[OurHOMEschoolPlan]

You’re such a typical homeschooler with the books and wanting that library!!
I’m admittedly not typical. I’m not a book junkie. (But I wish I was….) Sonlight intimidated me when we first started homeschooling. But I can definitely appreciate the books and reading of books to the kids. It’s one of my biggest s regrets….that I didn’t read aloud MORE!!

I 100% agree with you about exposing kids to even secular books UNDER your supervision. How are you going to teach discernment and test it, if they don’t have challenges to discern?


Fun fact:
One of my very, very closest friends was pictured on the Sonlight catalog for a few years! I haven’t seen the catalog lately to know if she’s still on it or not. 😊

[jesusnamemiracles]

Your family looks very joyful to link up to. Love your earrings! We always used Abeka, but will look into Sonlight. Thank you for the idea.

[JoyfulNoiseLearning]

GREAT video, Rachel! I did NOT know about the scholarships! That is amazing! What a need blessing you have to have been able to receive that 👍🏻

[JoyfulNoiseLearning]

Love that Sonlight is very diverse and does include hard books and hard situations. I love that and want that for my kids as well. It’s good to teach our kids about real life world issues. 💗

[StaceyYoder]

Iv been loving the sonlight that I'm using with the boys. We are reading through them quickly. I can definitely see the value factor for families not having to pick out all the books themselves. Alot less decisions for mom. Also that's so great about the scholarships! I didn't know that.

[creatingcommunity]

We have only finished about a weeks worth of Sonlight so far and we are head over heels in love with the curriculum! ❤

[sarahmora]

Great information!! Thanks for sharing Rachel!

[lifewithginab]

I've heard of them ... and now I'm interested!! Lol ... will be checking it out! I love that you would eat popcorn and read the books!

[emilylong]

My friend was just telling me this is what she used this last year... I’m still researching so thank you for the information.

[LifeintheMundane]

So I grew up on Sonlight and loved it but haven’t had a chance to use it yet but I’m thinking about using it next year