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HBL F 2016

2016 HBL F Packages:

  • Grade 5 Multi-Subject Packages (5MSPB and 5MSPG)
    • Will not include Required Resources
    • Will include Sequential Spelling Vol. 3
  • HBL F package - FC5
  • Tabs and 3" Binder or Binder with tabs

LA NOTE: - HBL F package comes with Readers but *not* Language Arts

2016 Edition Changes

  • Arabs in the Golden Age dropped
  • Commodore Perry dropped
  • David Livingstone dropped
  • World Book DVD dropped
  • Best-Loved Folktales dropped
  • Henry Reed dropped
  • The Hobbit dropped
  • Homesick dropped
  • Sherlock Files dropped
  • Silkworms dropped
  • Star of Light dropped
  • Journey to the Eastern Hemisphere added
  • Living Water in the Desert added
  • Beat the Story Drum, Bum, Bum added
  • Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters added
  • Burying the Sun added
  • A Girl Named Disaster added
  • A Moment Comes added
  • The Turning added

2016 HBL F IG Errors:

  • 5.17.16 - The title 100 Gateway Cities is part of HBL F, but was left off the IG booklist and out of the IG schedule. Customers who already purchased FCG were mailed the schedule for this title, as it is used all year and required a number of pages. The correction was added to FCG for future purchasers. (9.22.16)
  • 8.19.16 - The included title A Moment Comes was determined to be inappropriate for this level as a Reader. We have replaced this title with The Hobbit. A new schedule and the book have been shipped to all customers who purchased any package that included HBL F. The correction shipment includes the following letter:

Dear ______:

We have changed one of the Readers in F. After further review, the new Reader A Moment Comes was deemed too mature for this audience. We have replaced this title with The Hobbit.

We previously sent you corrections for your History / Bible / Lit F Instructor Guide that included the schedule for 100 Gateway Cities and two Eastern Hemisphere Notebook pages. Given the number of pages affected with these updates, we felt it best to send you the corrected schedule pages with these updates already applied.

We will send these corrected schedule pages, along with the new Reader, The Hobbit. When you receive them, please replace the History / Bible / Lit F Instructor's Guide schedule pages with these corrected pages.

We do not want you to return A Moment Comes to us. You may preread it yourself to determine if/when your child may be ready for the book or you may dispose of the book.

The difference in the price of the Readers will be refunded to you, depending on the form of payment you used in your original order.

Thank you,
Lydia Bowers
Customer Service Supervisor
for the Sonlight Team

Book defects, backorders, edition changes, etc.

  • Journey to the Eastern Hemisphere - incorrect map on pp. 122-123. See email below. (7.7.16)

Journey to the Eastern Hemisphere book error (7.7.16)

Email to affected customers:

Thank you for your recent order.

We realized recently that the printer included the wrong map in some of the new Journey to the Eastern Hemisphere books.

Would you mind checking your book? The map on pp. 122-123 should be a map of Russia, but if your book has a map of Southeast Asia, please reply to this email, and we will get you a book with the correct map as soon as possible.

Contact Customer Relations via email at [email protected], or call 303-730-6292 or 1-800-903-1675, Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Mountain Time (6-4, Pacific Time; 9-7, Eastern Time).

Thank you so much!

China Kit Instructions Email (10.9.13)

A number of customers received Core F China Kits without the instruction sheet. The China Kit manual is available for download on the Curriculum Updates page for Core F. We have emailed all customers who purchased Core F and/or the China Kit since 4/1/13 to alert them to where they may find the manual pdf if it wasn't included in their kit.
Here are your China Kit instructions

2013 EHE Notebook Pages (05.02.13)

The whole EHE was reworked this year so that it doesn't need an answer key of any type. About 98% of the questions are open-ended. For the other 2%, the specific answers are in the teaching notes. Thus, it will work with different editions of World Book.

2012 China Kit (5.16.12)

We have updated the China kit for the 2012 Core F package. It is now a 5-day only product. It includes:

NOTE: We have removed the book Ancient China book and the pages of circles for the game Piaji. We have added the content from the booklet of activities which we made last year, to the Core F Instructor's Guide.

Rice Paper (4.13.15)

Because someone actually asked, I went back in the warehouse to find out how many sheets of rice paper are in the China Kit. The answer is 8, in case anyone else ever asks. -KC

Is EHE still part of Core F? (updated 5.14.12)

While there is no longer an EHE product as part of our 2012 Core F program, many of the best components of that product have been integrated into our Core F Instructor’s Guide. Your students will find compelling research assignments which utilize both the World Book Encyclopedia as well as the Internet. There are also relevant hands-on activities related to various countries and cultures being studied. There will be consumable, lapbook type activity sheets included in the Core F IG.

EHE Student Activity Sheets

We will offer consumable activity sheets from the past two years (2010 and 2011). Customers can still order the EHE activity sheets online. Just include a note in the comment section stating which edition is needed. (2012)

What is the 10/40 window?

Eastern Hemisphere Explorer first in Core 5 in 2004.

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