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Sonlight Ministry Homeschooling Curriculum

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Hello!
My name is Curlyn Baptiste. I’m a single mom with a five year old daughter.
I was impressed by God to homeschool Courtney last September 2013 and started in October of said year after quitting my job.

Sonlight Education Ministry was recommended to me by one of my very trusted friends and after going through its curriculum I knew that was how God wanted me to teach my daughter not just for this life but for the life to come!!

I was residing in NYC at that time and have since moved back to my island home to use the teaching to its full potential.

Our schedule on a daily basis:

5:00am – My devotional

6:45am – worship ( with Coutts)

7:00am –  daily exercise(30-45 minutes).

8:00am- bath, breakfast preparation

8:30-9:30- breakfast.

9:45-10:00- clean up.

10:00-10:30- lesson plan.

10:30-11:30- nature discoveries
(Find, plant, create)

11:30- 12:30- lunch preparation.

12:30-1:30 -lunch and clean up.

1:30pm- household chores
Industry making

4:00pm- story time

5:00pm- coutts playtime
Mom personal time

6:00pm- dinner preparation

6:15pm- dinner, clean up

7:00pm- worship

7:30pm- bed ( Coutts)

Sunlight Education Ministry main emphasis is character building and teaching reading, writing, maths, history, music, astronomy, spelling etc through the bible.

At first I had a real struggle adjusting to the curriculums’ concept that 0-7 year olds were to taught Bible, Character, Nature, and Practical Work. It was best to leave the Reading, Arithmetic for a later time when the child had developed more mentally, physically, and spiritually.

God has been brought us a long way and had and is good to us and is blessing our feeble efforts to learn more about the Creator and his creations everyday.

Motivation Monday {SOP Quote}

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Red Maple Leaves“So far as possible, let the child from his earliest years be placed where this wonderful lesson-book [of nature] shall be open before him. Let him behold the glorious scenes painted by the great Master Artist upon the shifting canvas of the heavens, let him become acquainted with the wonders of earth and sea, let him watch the unfolding mysteries of the changing seasons, and, in all His works, learn of the Creator.”

Lift Him Up, 255

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Sunset at Mt. Rainier from Sunrise

“For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Exodus 20:11

Photo Credit: Sunset at the Sunrise Viewpoint, Mt. Rainier ©2014 Nathan Clark. Used by permission.

Reflecting His Image ~ A Nine Week Study for High Schoolers

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Reflecting His Image: A  Practical Application to Christian Living,  shared in the Atlantic Union Conference Teacher Bulletin, was written for an academy classroom setting  but can be easily adapted for a homeschool setting.  The objectives of this nine-week study for high schoolers include learning methods of effective witnessing and living a life completely surrendered to God .  The link below will take you to the main page with the free unit lesson plan and supplementary materials.

Reflecting His Image: A  Practical Application to Christian Living 

Show & Share ~ September 17th

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Welcome to the Septembr 17th Edition of Show & Share. We look forward to enjoying what you have to share today. For Show & Share ideas and guidelines, read this post

Inexpensive Phonics Manipulatives

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Alphabet/phonics/word work manipulatives add enjoyment to the process of learning to read and spell.  These hands-on materials can be found very inexpensively if you know where to look.
Phonics manipulatives

Next time you are in a dollar or discount store, be sure to check for potential manipulatives.  Don’t limit your search to just the educational supply section, also take a look in the office supply aisle, and  the dollar bin area.   The toy aisle might reveal manipulatives as well – think wooden alphabet blocks!

The blue foam letter squares, the letter magnets and the alphabet bingo game shown above were each found for only a dollar.  I’ve also found simple file folder games and sight word strips, and even the pocket chart for one dollar.  Don’t forget to look for blank sentence strips!

phonics manipulatives 2Next time you are at a yard or jumble sale,  look for old Scrabble or other word games.  Doesn’t matter if all of the pieces are there, you just need the letter tiles or word pieces.  Many times these games can be had for free.  That was the case with the wooden Scrabble tiles shown above.  I love those Scrabble tiles because they are very sturdy and will hold up to lots of word play.

Keep your eyes peeled for cheap letter & word study manipulatives – they’re out there!

 

 

 

Motivation Monday

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SunlightFor whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Romans 15:4