Do I have to do every activity listed each day?  

Definitely not!!  The word curriculum means a course of study.  Your curriculum is a tool that should help you educate your children.  It is not an iron-fisted task-master forcing you to run your homeschool according to someone else’s schedule.  Feel free to change, alter, skip, dilute, add to, or personalize KONOS to fit the needs of your family each day.

We have included more activities than most could ever do because choices provide flexibility.  If you decide to have your children make a table-top castle using one cardboard box instead of a garage-sized castle out of numerous refrigerator boxes, then your children have time to make banners out of felt and write a ballad, or take the afternoon off, while the refrigerator castle making kids will not have time for those activities.  Remember, no teenager ever failed the SAT test, because he did not make the refrigerator box castle!

Free yourself to do what works for your family one day at a time; one season at a time.  What you do, how often you do it, and the way you do it should be decided by wife and husband according to what is best for their family.