Will KONOS work for My Child?

Will KONOS work for my child? Any good teacher will use a number of teaching methods when she presents materials to her students. On of the real strengths of KONOS is that the curriculum incorporates all of the teaching methods teaching to all learning styles. The kinesthetic learner will be captivated with the hands-on activities, the field trips, and the dramatizing. The visual learner will thrive on the KONOS Timeline, the great KONOS literature list which includes classics, Newberry Award and Caldicott Medal winners, as well as the wonderful KONOS writing program. The auditory learners needs will be met through dramatizing, family reading, and dialoguing about the various topics with parents and siblings. The creative, artistic child will flourish when given the chance to learn about horses by drawing the points of the horse or to learn the parts of a castle by designing and building a castle from refrigerator boxes. Since all methodologies are included in each unit, each learning style is addressed daily. At the same time, each child’s strength is being taught to, his weaknesses are being worked on. While a child with an attention deficit will thrive on hands-on learning, he may have difficulty reading or writing a paper. If a child with attention deficit is given only hands-on activities, his ability to sit still, read, and write will never improve. Each child needs to be stretched to his maximum potential in every area. The quite, passive, voracious reader may be very shy, but by donning a king or queen costume and dramatizing Henry VIII or Elizabeth I, for the family, and then for friends and relatives, the little bookworm is rounded out. There may also be a variety of different learning aptitudes within a family. Some children are gifted learners making their teachers look like wizards. Other children may struggle to sound out it and drive teachers to the point of surrender. KONOS has been an incredible benefit to moms with precocious learners, because the open-ended flexibility allows her to give that child a more challenging book or to assign a more advanced paper, while she continues teaching the same topic to all her children at the same time. The less advanced learner can learn the same topic as his more advanced siblings, and yet, read a less demanding book and write a less complex paper. The advantage of using real books allows each child to read at his own level without identifying that level. The fourth grader who is only reading at the second grade level, escapes being labeled for life by not having to read from a book with a giant 2 on the spine. This child may be a little slow in his read skills, but he will certainly be aware enough to know the world thinks he is two years behind in reading.
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