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we used SL for 4 years and I thought surely I could do it myself for this year. I took the book list and looked at some others as well, made our schedule based around SOTW for Logic stage. It was a LOT of work. And we will be using the SL guide next year, LOL! It was just a lot of work to line it up and it's worth having the schedule done for me.

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Essentially, I use the IG as a schedule. We do our own discussion of the history topics and literature. I don't use SL's guides. Never really have, though I do think they can be helpful. Narrations and writing assignments are done in language arts. We fit into the category of "discuss and call it good". My three youngest can enter into some good discussions with just a bit of priming the pump on my part. Sometimes I don't even need to do this - they just come out with questions and comments about what we are reading. One of my favorite questions to ask is "Should so and so have done this and that?" All sorts of moral issues and problem solving comes out during these discussions. I do greatly appreciate having the readings scheduled for me. This is how we have used SL for five years.

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We use SOTW as our history core. I made a schedule for SOTW that includes read-alouds for each chapter. SL history books and history-related readers/read-alouds are incorporated as well as books from other sources. It was time-consuming, I did it before we started and included books I wanted to purchase as well as books available at our library. It was worth the time I spent, it is very easy to just refer to my list to see what books I'll need in the next few weeks. I'll also be able to re-use the list when my youngers are ready for SOTW. I feel like we are getting the best from SL (the books!) without being tied to the IG...I tried SL one year and the IG didn't work for me.

 

As for the other SL readers and read-alouds, I just made a list of books to read this year, no schedule, and check them off as we go. The one time I tried SL I found that we read at a faster pace than the IG for many of the books, so this works better for us. I pick and choose the SL books we'll read as well as pulling from other sources, and it really doesn't matter how fast we get through them.

 

We only narrate and discuss for certain subjects, SOTW being one, we do not narrate for every book.

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We just read SL as they apply to SOTW. Reading their other books just as we wish and discuss them daily.

 

 

This is what I did this year. Just plugged SL books into SOTW where they seemed to best fit.

 

Although, sometimes it is awfully enticing to have a schedule. I think it worked for us this year.

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I do kinda, because my plan was to go with Sonlight, and I collected books all summer for the Core, but then $$ became a factor and I didn't have enough for the IG. I did have SOTW though, because my plan was always to incorporate SOTW into Sonlight so I figured I'd just make my own blend.

 

So then I sat down and looked at all the books I'd collected for Sonlight. I'd planned on doing the whole History, Read Aloud and Reading program. Then it dawned on me that most of the books I collected had LITTLE to do with the actual history portion :(. Example, many of the Read-Alouds, while great books, were not corresponding to History. And the reading program had NOTHING to do with history. This is CORE B, btw, and now, months later, I've actually read that of course, the readers/read alouds don't start corresponding until Core D. I missed that fact!

 

So I have many good books and I just fold them into our SOTW studies as they are pertinent. For example, we are on the Greeks in SOTW....I have the Greek Myths book needed for Sonlight...reading from that while we study Greeks.

 

Some of the read-alouds we've read, and other's we haven't. I am actually selling the whole Read-Aloud group of books now.

 

The Sonlight Reading program....haven't used that since the first week. Yes, reading all the readers I got to go with it, but the Reading program itself....a silly "read this page" type outline. Didn't really need that.

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