How much religion is in SL core 1?

[mo2]

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[Donna T.]

If you skip the Bible portion, not a lot really. I'll get my catalog:

From Akebu to Zapotec is a book that you read in order to facilitate a prayer time for people groups who don't have the Bible translated in their own language. Very easy to skip. We loved that book and enjoyed praying, but it only took a few minutes on the days the book was scheduled. It's not scheduled everyday. It includes interesting info. about the people and mentions they need a Bible. It's not even much religion in it really. Just suggests prayer.

George Muller is the bio. of a missionary. We didn't read it when we did Core 1.

Missionary Stories with the Millers is obviously missionary stories. On my blog, I have pasted a photo of this book on the right-hand side bar. You can click on it to read excerpts of the book. Just suggesting that in case you'd like to read a couple and see what the stories are like. The stories are written from an Anabaptist perspective. They are wholesome stories. We love that book. The link to my blog is in my sig. below.

That's about it, I think. Not much when you consider that the 2008 edition of Core 1 scheduled 25 books (not including Bible or the readers).

The readers that Sonlight publishes do have a bit (a small bit, in my opinion) of references to God and sin. The other books do not.

For the age range suggested (6-8), Core 1 has plenty of religious instruction if you include the Bible. We love the book they schedule, but didn't use the CD because we prefer another Bible translation.

Hope that helps. With Sonlight, what you see in the book list is really what you get... you won't find alot of extra teaching in the Instructor's Guides. You will find references to faith and religion in the guides, but those aren't necessarily things that you are supposed to teach your child. Sort of little aside statements but not a focus of the instruction.

[mo2]

If you skip the Bible portion, not a lot really. I'll get my catalog:

From Akebu to Zapotec is a book that you read in order to facilitate a prayer time for people groups who don't have the Bible translated in their own language. Very easy to skip. We loved that book and enjoyed praying, but it only took a few minutes on the days the book was scheduled. It's not scheduled everyday. It includes interesting info. about the people and mentions they need a Bible. It's not even much religion in it really. Just suggests prayer.

George Muller is the bio. of a missionary. We didn't read it when we did Core 1.

Missionary Stories with the Millers is obviously missionary stories. On my blog, I have pasted a photo of this book on the right-hand side bar. You can click on it to read excerpts of the book. Just suggesting that in case you'd like to read a couple and see what the stories are like. The stories are written from an Anabaptist perspective. They are wholesome stories. We love that book. The link to my blog is in my sig. below.

That's about it, I think. Not much when you consider that the 2008 edition of Core 1 scheduled 25 books (not including Bible or the readers).

The readers that Sonlight publishes do have a bit (a small bit, in my opinion) of references to God and sin. The other books do not.

For the age range suggested (6-8), Core 1 has plenty of religious instruction if you include the Bible. We love the book they schedule, but didn't use the CD because we prefer another Bible translation.

Hope that helps. With Sonlight, what you see in the book list is really what you get... you won't find alot of extra teaching in the Instructor's Guides. You will find references to faith and religion in the guides, but those aren't necessarily things that you are supposed to teach your child. Sort of little aside statements but not a focus of the instruction.


Thank you. That helps me a lot.

[siloam]

Are you just talking the Christian POV or religion in general? Beyond what Donna listed there is also coverages of the Egyptian gods, Greek gods and Roman gods. CHOW (one of the co-spines) starts out with evolution, which SL doesn't schedule to be read, but you can add it in easily. The Usborne books come from an old earth/evolutionist perspective and thus uses old earth dates.

There is a yahoo group called SL secular that might interest you, depending on where you are coming from.

Heather

[Donna T.]

That's right. I thought about that but didn't mention it. We tend to think of those as literature, not religion.