Guest Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Can you share which read alouds you loved/hated from Sonlight 1? I'm starting to put my list together for next year so that I can spend the year looking for used books. This will be for a boy, if that makes a difference. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Momof1plustwins Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Our Core 1 is from 2008, so I'm not sure if these books are still in the current core. We couldn't get into Mountain Born. I also thought the Missionary Stories were too much for my little ones to swallow. It took some time for us to get into Understood Betsy. It seemed like it was going to be a depressing story but it turned out great! I cried at the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Our Core 1 is from 2008, so I'm not sure if these books are still in the current core. We couldn't get into Mountain Born. I also thought the Missionary Stories were too much for my little ones to swallow. It took some time for us to get into Understood Betsy. It seemed like it was going to be a depressing story but it turned out great! I cried at the end. I've heard that about Mountain Born and I wasn't sure myself about Understood Betsy...thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbsweetpea Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 Our Core 1 is from 2008, so I'm not sure if these books are still in the current core. We couldn't get into Mountain Born. I also thought the Missionary Stories were too much for my little ones to swallow. It took some time for us to get into Understood Betsy. It seemed like it was going to be a depressing story but it turned out great! I cried at the end. Thanks for the Understood Betsy review. I removed it from our list and will add it back to the schedule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennay Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 We loved Mountain Born here. If you can time it to coordinate with a field trip to a sheep & wool festival so much the better! We didn't do Missionary Stories with the Millers Honestly, I can't think of a read-aloud in Core 1 that my boys (ages 6 and 7 at the time) didn't like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMDRAD Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 We did not enjoy Mrs. Pigglewiggle or The Wheel on the School. Those were the only two books that we shelved. We LOVED the missionary stories and the George Muller book. We are still reading Detectives in Togas and Henry Huggins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.... Posted August 10, 2010 Share Posted August 10, 2010 I did Core 1 last year with a 2nd grade girl and a 1st grade boy. Absolutely could not get through: Detectives in Togas, Greek News, The Year of Miss Agnes My kids loved these books: Mr. Popper's Penguins, Mountain Born (daughter didn't want this book to end), Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, Little Pear, Gooney Bird Greene. The rest of them, my kids liked...Henry Huggins - we listened to that as an audiobook in the car...Greek Myths was good, Homer Price was OK... For the History, my kids didn't like From Akebu to Zapotec and we skipped the missionary stories. My kids REALLY liked the King Tut book. We did a project with Houses and Homes (they made model homes from balsa wood), Peoples of the World was so-so, Great Wall of China was awesome (we did lapbooks and they painted pictures using Chinese writing). I think that was most of it. My kids really liked Core 1. I tried to add a lot of hands-on projects to go with the books (like themes). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerryAtHope Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Understood Betsy was one of my dd's all-time favorite SL books! And this was at a time when she really didn't like most read-alouds. The Wheel on the School was also a favorite of mine, though I think it took the kids some time to get into it. But the theme is so incredibly important--because people our society tends to devalue became important and a whole community had to work together in the end. We still talk about looking for lost things where they could be and where they couldn't possibly be, LOL! We didn't care so much for People's of the World, Child's History of the World (2nd half is a bit better I think), or the Usborne Encyclopedia. I ended up swapping out the spines for MOH. The other read-alouds were good here. Merry :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted August 11, 2010 Share Posted August 11, 2010 Is My Father's Dragon K or 1? We loved that. Mr. Popper's Penguins Mrs. Piggle Wiggle. My boys laughed and laughed. Homer Price Capyboppy James Harriott stories We never did finish The Wheel on the School. We tried. :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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