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I’ll get right to it. We are a family who loves to travel, and we often take our homeschool with us. We are traveling homeschoolers! As such, one of our favorite things about Sonlight is its portability. We have gone on tons of road trips with the curriculum in tow (everything except science experiments). Earlier this year, we actually filled an entire carry-on with HBL, language arts, and science books, workbooks, and IG pages for an extended airplane trip.
I’m beyond thrilled to be partnering with Sonlight Curriculum for the 2018-2019 school year as a Sonlight Ambassador. After using Sonlight from the beginning of our children’s formal education (6 years & counting!) and loving it, Sonlight has provided me with HBL E, Science E, LA E (including optional supplements & handwriting), and an art elective, for our school year. I look forward to sharing with you as we learn throughout the year. All opinions are 100% my own.
Most recently, we had the opportunity to visit Iceland! We love field trips involving world travel! In preparation for the trip (and the 9-hour flight each way!), we needed to fill our kids’ backpacks with things to keep them occupied and having fun. And, guess what? Sonlight books fit perfectly!
Sonlight Readers
Our Sonlight focus on this trip was the readers (and some read-alouds). We purposely worked ahead in science, math, and other language arts skills before the trip.
Before I knew it, on the flight to Iceland, Older Daughter had read Old Yeller in its entirety and had moved on to reading something else!
During the week in Iceland, she read Helen Keller and The Wright Brothers, without any prompting! I even found her interrupting her own “reading” of an Icelandic cookbook to continue learning about Wilbur and Orville Wright, whose pioneering paved the way for aviation and travel as we know it (including flying to Iceland!).
Travel Journal
As traveling homeschoolers, kid-level travel journals are a must! Besides helping the kids remember what they did each day, it’s a good way to keep up their writing skills while traveling. This is our favorite travel journal for kids right now.
What Did We Experience?
It’s more like…what didn’t we experience?!? In just one week of family travel…
Weather = cold, sun, rain, snow, wind
History = Vikings, general settlement, arrival of Christianity
The Arts = orchestra concert for children
Worship = attended an Icelandic language church service
Nature = the meeting up of two tectonic plates, geothermal activity – Ironically, one of Younger Sister’s readers on this trip was Pompeii…Buried Alive!
Science = Northern Lights! – What better way to reinforce concepts from Sonlight Science E than to see them firsthand? Here’s a page from The Usborne Book of Astronomy and Space, followed by one of our views of the aurora borealis (northern lights).
All In One Place
Sonlight’s Instructors Guides (the IGs mentioned already) make it easy (and truly make it possible at all) to be traveling homeschoolers. The ease of bringing along only the pages we need is priceless. For this trip, I brought the pertinent IG schedule pages, as well as the comprehension question pages. They all fit in this handy zipper pouch, which slid right into a backpack!
Along with experiencing the majesty and diversity of God’s creation, we were able to keep our daughters’ education right on track…because of Sonlight. As traveling homeschoolers, Sonlight allows us to do school whenever and wherever, and that is priceless!
I invite all homeschooling families to give Sonlight a try. There’s nothing to lose, especially with their Love to Learn, Love to Teach™ Guarantee!
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