HOMESCHOOLING FUN ~SONLIGHT STYLE!

I have mentioned several times that I LOVE using Sonlight as our main History and Reading curriculum for school.  Having an English major with a minor in Elementary Education, I know how important books are in the overall health and development of kiddos.  Being a believer in the Charlotte Mason homeschooling ideas, I know how important it is to read “living” books and not books filled with “twaddle” or useless information that doesn’t captivate one’s heart and mind.  Being a “dork” with a LOVE of reading, I know how much I LOVE the way a new book feels, smells, and transports you to places far away.  That is one of the reasons that I fell in love with the Sonlight curriculum.  However, like many aspects of homeschooling, there was an aspect that I hadn’t considered being so beneficial, the Sonlight Forums.

The Sonlight Forums are a place for people who use and enjoy the Sonlight curriculum to meet, swap ideas, advice, and form cyber friendships.  It is a way to connect fellow homeschoolers in a new way to offer support and encouragement to one another that isn’t limited to just homeschooling but in all aspects of life.  It is on these forums that we connected with people who are also using the American History Cores (Cores D, D-E combined, or E), and exchange ideas, helpful hints, tools, and encouraging stories.  It is also where we met with the families that are willing to join us in a United States postcard exchange. 

This postcard exchange is just one of the ways that we are having some homeschooling fun!  We decided to participate and represent Florida, our great state.  Within the forum community there were 47 other families willing to participate, so we had almost all 50 states covered.  The charge was simple; make or buy some postcards representing your state, sign your family’s name, and mail them out.   We decided to Google some fun facts about Florida, a lot of what we found was what we didn’t already know about the state we live in, and make our own postcards.  What a fun time we have had learning about our home state!

Printing out our postcards.  Getting ready to trim them up!

Who knew Florida was the 4th most populated state?  We learned that and more with this fun homeshooling venture!

We are putting the finishing touches on our postcards and getting ready to send them out.  We are also slowly starting to get postcards in from other states.  Our first postcard just arrived from Maine, the photo of the lighthouse was breathtaking, and we certainly don’t have any of those rocky crags here in the Sunshine State!  More than anything we are having lots of fun connecting with other families that we never would have had the opportunity to “meet” without Sonlight!  YAY for homeschooling fun ~ Sonlight style!