Can we just brag?
My eight year old moved into 5th grade SOS.
My six year old is almost through 3rd grade SOS.
Life is good!
Hey -- we are starting SOS for the first time this year. I have been using Sonlight, which I love. But I am now ready to start #3 in kindergarten (using Sonlight) and I have a 19 month old to chase, so I decided to move my 5th and 6th graders to SOS. SO -- here's my big question for you... The one thing that I was having a little hesitation about SOS over was that I didn't see much focus on reading for the kids -- and I mean BOOK reading, not reading the curriculum. Did I miss something? I have considered looking at their history and assigning some extra book reading. I guess since we read so much with Sonlight, I don't want them to lose their joy of reading books!!
Ok -- I'm pinging you to this thread because I went back and saw that you were an SOS Mom. I loved the curriculum!! We are in SOS 5 and SOS 6 this year. If you remember, the only thing I DIDN'T like was the lack of outside reading required of the kids -- I'm coming from SOnlight which required a TON of reading.
This year, I set up my own Reading Curriculum, with reading assignments and at the end or each book, they have to answer 5 or 6 questions for me. I set it up in a hurry and with books I had on hand. For next year though, I am trying to do some better planning. I have a list of 15 - 19 books that I have chosen and want each kid to read, and I want to make up a list of questions for them to answer as they read each book. I have found online resources for the questions for about 7 of the books, but I was wondering if you have a good resource for finding others? Otherwise I will be reading them myself and making the questions up.
If I do all this, I would be willing to share my book lists and the guides if anyone is interested.