We had Core G – World History Year 1 of 2, which is designed to move students through Ancient History and Medieval Times in one year. Now I know why Sonlighters make such a big deal about “boxing day” - it really does feel like Christmas! Piles and piles of shiny books and a ginormous Instructor Guide with all the questions and answers that I could want!
When I arrived home with my giant box of Sonlight, I immediately pulled out all of the books and spread them around me on the floor. (Tip: if you’re selling a like-new Sonlight curriculum online, don’t let your teens price it for you.) From Wayfarers to Sonlight
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I found someone selling a full Sonlight Core at a ridiculously good price about an hour and a half from home. Is there another curriculum that’s known for great books? We like Charlotte Mason’s focus on living books. My thought process went something like this: I decided that we needed to jump ship and just try something totally different. What’s more, my doubts about narration returned. We chugged along awhile, but we were really behind and we were barely keeping up, let alone catching up. That’s all to say that I was feeling a bit frazzled by the time we made it to full school-mode sometime in mid-October. Harbour was sick too, though her illness wasn’t as long or severe, and even poor Forest ended up with pneumonia on his third birthday. I actually coughed so violently that at one point I went in for x-rays to make sure that none of my ribs were cracked. Honestly, I’ve never been so sick in my entire life, and that illness lasted a solid six weeks. Then we got sick, and then we got sicker. The first two days, I mean - when we had an indoor waterpark almost all to ourselves. Charlotte Mason -ish has always been good enough for me.
Purists in CM Facebook groups sometimes turn their noses up at anything that blends philosophies, but I’ve never been great at following rules anyway. It’s a blend of Charlotte Mason and Classical styles, with an optional dose of unit studies thrown in. I felt a bit uneasy, but we plugged away and finished our year, and then when it was time to pick Grade Five curriculum, we stuck with Wayfarers. I didn’t know because I wasn’t reading the books myself. I began to wonder what other important details my daughter might be missing. It’s just that already back in Grade 4, I noticed that River was missing key details sometimes, like the name of the country where the novel takes place - a problem if, say, the book is specifically chosen to teach geography. Her narrations are long and detailed and I’m constantly amazed at the amount of information that she effortlessly absorbs. And it’s not that my daughter needed practice narrations (save your emails) - she’s really good at it.
I like narration in theory, but it wasn’t working all that well for us at home. I mean, there’s more to it than that - there are full books written about the method - but that’s it in a nutshell.
For my non-homeschooling readers, that just means that my oldest daughter reads a chapter and then tells it back to me as best as she can. The one issue I’ve had with the program is that it relies on a Charlotte Mason method of narration to demonstrate comprehension. It’s a wonderful curriculum and I’ve written several positive reviews about it here on this blog. We’ve used Wayfarers from for a few years now. Where We Started: A Charlotte Mason/Classical Blend Just like the novel you’re going to get here. I love talking about the Greeks and Romans and learning Latin and reading old books and I’m so in my homeschool happy place right now.Ī few people have messaged or emailed me to ask why we’ve switched away from Charlotte Mason, and I feel sorry for those people because they always get an absolute novel of a response from me as I work out my own thoughts in the reply. I certainly never expected that I would love it so much. I never expected to end up with a classical homeschool curriculum for my kids.
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