Homeschool Curriculum REVIEW II Sonlight HBL-K American History

Great review!! Thanks for sharing! Getting ready to start this one next week with 2 of my kids.

Loved hearing about your experience, and so glad that you decided to make that leap and try out Sonlight this year!

Thank you for these videos! Just found your channel - will be homeschooling a Kindergartner this upcoming school year. I'm excited and overwhelmed at all the choices. Sonlight has piqued my interest and it looks like a possible good fit for my child. I cannot find anyone we know personally who uses it! This video is helpful. ❤

Thanks for sharing. Thanks for all the hacks too! Love Sonlight and curriculum reviews!

Oh my gosh I love your reviews! So detailed and you answer so many questions I have. My daughter is just-turned six and I was about to buy the level K and now I think I might pick and choose from their book choices instead of buying the entire core! Thanks for this 🙌

I'm trying out Sonlight for the first time this year and I'm so excited! We will be doing science C with my 7 and 10 yr old. Thank you for all your reviews, they've helped me get a better idea about this curriculum.

I also found the K history too advanced for my 5 year old. I decided to use only half of the books and fill in with more visual usborne & library books. It's great content, just difficult for kids who still struggle to understand basic time and geography. I do plan to keep and use the remaining books to use in a future school year. Thank you for your YouTube reviews, I always find them helpful!

Thank you for sharing!! I will be using this level with my 8 and 7 year old for the upcoming year. Your review makes me even more excited. 😂 I was also thinking about doing the same thing with the Bible. I just feel like doubling up on the reading would be too much for my children.

You have really encouraged me to take the leap and do sonlight! I also have always been looking at it but was put off by the price. In a hope to get away from allot of worksheets we are going to give it a try 😀

I love your timeline idea for the color since timeline figures repeat for different levels. 👍🏻 I started Sonlight in level B so I never used K, but it looks so good! Since I have a one year old, I think I’ll use it when he gets a little older. 😊

Thank you for the practical suggestions sprinkled in with your review! Sonlight does seem overwhelming because of the huge binder, but I do love a literature based curriculum!

I did Level K a couple years ago(when it released) with my boys. I am doing it again with my daughter this year. I am so excited. We just got back from Colonial Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown, Mt. Vernon, and Monticello. It really made me even more excited to start American History again this year.

We bought the complete Sonlight box for kindergarten and love the history, Bible, and literature pieces, especially the daily lesson plans. We do pair it down a little bit so it's more of a natural discussion format vs a Q&A. I feel like the science is lacking a little bit compared to how much other literature we're reading. It also came with Math U See and I don't love that there's not daily lesson plans for it. We've done 9 units in 3 weeks because a lot up to that point seems like preschool review and then it jumps to place value with no real foundation built. I think for next year we might consider the full Moving Beyond the Page curriculum or stick to Sonlight HBL only, Blossom and Root for science, and TGATB for math.

Tip: for the questions in the back of the book for your literature readers. I just made a black and white copy of those pages and placed the questions with each book, that way I could leave the manual clean for resale.

We are only a few years away from this level!!! My big kids are doing level f hbl but not science as we are using our own book choices for science!!! We got the books separately tho!!! I’m hearing that sonlight is advanced!!! I feel like the picture books could be enough for that age!!! I love that the books used humour!!! The book over their head you could also come back to!!! The mapping is awesome!!! We use our own notebooks for timelines!!! We have worship music on while we do over stuff and there’s nothing wrong with doing the same thing with a memory verse cd!!! Nothing wrong with being ahead!!!

We start this today and I am SO excited!!! We started back to school last week but I am adding in one class each week so this week I am adding in this and Abeka for phonics. We are using sonlight pre-k for our morning basket time bc I love the Bible lessons in that and the childrens book of virtues. Also I couldn’t decide if we would be able to handle level k or not lol so I have pre-k as a backup just incase this is over her head. I’m sure I will let you know in another comment how it’s going 😂

Thanks for the video! Did you see that they have updated the History portion? Im wondering if I should get the new books.

I’ve been eyeing Sonlight and Bookshark for a long time. I love researching and putting together lessons but I’m expecting a baby this summer so decided it’s a perfect time to just have it all laid out for me. So excited to try out Bookshark this coming year. We’ll be doing Reading w/ History and their science. I’m a bit concerned about it being advanced as I decided to start w/ level B for my 7 & 5 year old as we had read many of the books in the level K so hope it’s not too advanced.

Wonderful review and thank you for it!! I’m nervous now about it being advanced 😬😬 I’ll have a 5 and 7 year old that I’ll be using it with in the fall. Might be too much for my five year old but we will try it anyway.

Hi! I really love your reviews. I’m highly contemplating doing Sonlight this coming year for 1st grade. Although I really won’t need the History (I think we’ll use Notgrass OSSS), is it still possible to use the guide for just literature, read alouds and Bible? I’m thinking I just wouldn’t purchase the history books? Thanks Angie!