Sonlight: Box Day and Organization

We had our first Sonlight box day last week! I may have been even more excited about this one than our My Father's World box day since it was the box days on the Sonlight blog that got me drooling over the curriculum in the first place. It was such a treat to have our own finally! And of course, I got right to work on organizing it :) Looking through the books, I saw that many of the titles weren't ones I would immediately go to if I were shopping for them individually. But after sitting down and reading through some of them, I can tell we are really going to enjoy them. The stories are different and interesting and involve great life lessons. We can't wait to start!

 

 

Here is how I have organized. I am a bit of a color addict and needed something a little prettier than Sonlight's binders, so I grabbed a pretty green 2 inch binder and some numbered dividers. The pocket in the front houses the LA games, while I put each week's P4/5 and LA K schedule/info in the dividers.

 

 

 

For the LA K student sheets, I added those to the files I had started for the MFW K student sheets. So now I have 36 unit files, a file for letter games, a file for reference charts (ABC, numbers, & blend ladder), and a file for other miscellaneous resources. Behind the files I am keeping the MFW guides and Lauri letters.

 

 

 

Finally, here is a shot of our shelf where I'm keeping all our books and other homeschool stuff. We do technically have a homeschool room, but with the house on the market and a major move coming up, I probably won't do more than this right now. Hopefully by the time we get started this summer I'll have a new homeschool room to debut!

Top shelf: large books, map puzzle, bin of craft items, CD's, Cuisenaire rods, etc. Middle Shelf: SL IG, misc. binders, misc. homeschool stuff. Bottom shelf: all of our beautiful books!

 

 

 

Box Day #1: My Father's World Kindergarten

We had our first official box day today! I don't know about you but for our family, there aren't many things better in life than big boxes of books coming in the mail. So we were super excited! Poor Selah fell asleep on the way home from running errands though and Solomon and I were too eager to wait, so she missed out. We got the deluxe package, the literature package, and a few extras. Everything is pictured except the teacher manual and A-Z cards!

I am so happy with everything we got and am definitely happy with my decision to get the literature package, especially thanks to a sweet mama on a swap page who sold me a like-new set for a great price! We can't wait to get started. Solomon is already diving into the dinosaur books! Now I'm just ready to start organizing everything.

                                                                

 

                                                                
                                                                Literature Package