Sonlight

Sonlight combines history, Bible, literature, and geography into a Christian literature-based curriculum that turns your couch into the most engaging classroom in your home, making it especially effective for families who want to teach multiple ages together while building biblical worldview through living books rather than textbooks. The All-Subjects Packages cover preschool through high school, integrating subjects through compelling read-alouds while keeping math, language arts, and science separate so each child works at their ability level. The program centers on detailed Instructor's Guides providing 36 weeks of scripted lesson plans with discussion questions—essentially giving you a master teacher's guidance without education training required. Families typically spend 1.5-3 hours daily on shared "Couch Subjects" (history, Bible, literature taught together to multiple ages) plus individual time on skill subjects. Sonlight partners with proven programs like Saxon Math and Math-U-See for math, while including hands-on science from elementary through rigorous high school lab courses. Parents appreciate the open-and-go ease and multi-age teaching capability that lets siblings share core subjects while working independently in skills. The Christian worldview is woven throughout rather than optional, and literature selections present multiple perspectives to encourage critical thinking—though some find the reading load heavy with 2-4 hours of read-alouds weekly. Sonlight's 6 month guarantee is also worth being familiar with.