Sonlight B World History 1 End-of-Year Review

 My 8 year-old is finishing Sonlight B World History 1 this week.  We used the History, Bible and Literature portion of B.  He also finished Sonlight Reading/Language Arts 1 and has just started Reading 2.

For Sonlight B, he really enjoyed the Hands-on History Box.  The glue that came in the box was not very good, but we easily used a hot glue gun.  Every project worked and the instructions were really good.  His favorite projects were:

• the Chinese dragon
• the Trojan horse
• the Roman chariot

Our favorite from the Bible portion:

• The Ology - this was a great book.  As a Lutheran, I was worried about it conflicting with what we believe, but it didn't.  We both enjoyed this book

Our favorites from the History portion:

• A Child's History of the World - he retold some of the stories I read to him from this book.  I thought these stories might be too complicated for him, but he liked them and understood them just fine
• Tut's Mummy, Lost and Found
• The Great Wall of China

Our favorites from the Literature portion:

• National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry
• Mr. Popper's Penguins
• The Year of Miss Agnes
• Word of Mouse
• Henry Huggins
• Charlotte's Web
• Happy Times in Noisy Village

He had a hard time telling me which book was his favorite (I think he liked almost all of them), but he says Henry Huggins was his favorite.  

Timeline Book

• I liked this more than he did, but I think it's because he can't quite grasp time periods in history yet.

Books he had a hard time with:

• Mountain Born
• Catching Their Talk in a Box
• Sing the Word: A New Commandment (music CD)