staceyobu Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 Help me think this through. We are doing SOTW 1 right now with my first grader. I am considering going back to Sonlight next year and would stick her in core 2 (c?) My ds will be in K next year. I don't think he could hang with sonlight 2. He has a late birthday and will be barely five in time for K. I don't know that I can stomach another year of ancients (to put both of them in core 1) and my oldest has already done core K (or a? why the heck did they change the names!). I am wondering if we could do p4/5 for DS's kinder year and maybe my youngest at age 3 could listen in. Then, the two of them could do core k at ages 6 and 4, core 1 at ages 7 and 5. However, that would put my youngest doing cores a grade level ahead. But, on the flip side, I don't really see p4/5 as being enough history for a first grader. I keep running through this and coming to the conclusion that Sonlight just doesn't work. Am I missing anything? I can't really fathom doing three separate cores for three kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathryn Posted November 16, 2011 Share Posted November 16, 2011 You could spend two years on Core A (K) to bring your youngest up to suggested age. A lot of people do that with A because it's so easy to do by reading the sequels (Boxcar Children, My Father's Dragon, etc.) to the literature and getting library books/videos to supplement the history. P4/5 was a wonderful kindergarten year for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morosophe Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Yeah, when you have kids spaced the way yours are, Sonlight gets a lot harder. Mine are spaced a little further apart, (more like every three years instead of every two,) which means that my first will be in fourth, and presumably a little more self-sufficient, by the time my second gets to first. (For kindergarten, I'm sticking with Five in a Row, thanks.) I'm still planning on switching to Biblioplan so that I don't have to deal with exactly that issue, though--I can't really imagine trying to teach two separate cores, and by the time my third got up there, I would really be going crazy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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