Why Do I Need the Timeline?

Because KONOS focuses on character traits as its main thrust of teaching, the curriculum uses a variety of people throughout history to illustrate a particular character trait. You might study a Bible character in the morning and a secular historical character in the afternoon. As an example, in the character trait of Attentiveness, you’ll study Samuel and Eli in the first activity. Samuel was attentive to the Lord and responded to the Lord's call in his sleep. You will also study Helen Keller who was attentive even though she lacked the use of her eyes and ears.

Your little Sarah asks, "Mommy, did Samuel and Helen Keller know each other?" You laugh, "Oh, no, Sarah, they are years apart." With the KONOS Kids’ Timeline, you have Sarah cut out the figure for Helen Keller who is holding her Braille book with her eyes closed, and place her at the beginning of the 20th century AD. She then cuts out Samuel wearing his priest ephod, holding his prophet staff and standing by his judges scale. Most adults do not have any idea where to place Samuel on the timeline. Most of us do not even know where to place David and Goliath on the timeline. Not to worry! Samuel has a date on his pedestal which tells Sarah to place him in the 11th century BC. When Sarah counts the centuries back from Helen Keller to the time of Christ, she quickly sees, on her own, that Christ lived a long time ago. When she counts eleven more centuries to the time of Samuel, she’ll understand, on her own, that Samuel and Helen Keller could not have known each other.

Each character studied in KONOS Character Curriculum Volume I has it’s own timeline character. There are 170 characters from all walks of life… presidents, scientists, artists, writers, and Bible characters. KONOS uses timelines to make learning hands-on, not abstract.

There are timeline sets to go with each of the three volumes. As a character is studied, a timeline figure is cut out and placed on the lines in the proper century—one character at a time. We even use the timeline as a reward. "Susan, you have been very patient today as we have studied the character trait of Patience. Can you tell me if Jacob was patient or impatient and why? That’s right, Jacob was impatient, because he stole the birthright from Esau. Would you like to cut out Jacob and put him on the timeline? Billy, you were not very patient today, were you? I am so sorry but you will not get to cut out Eli and put him on the timeline today. Maybe tomorrow, if you work on being patent, you might get to cut out Eli."

The KONOS Timelines will help the youngest to the oldest learn and know history! It is the greatest history teaching tool we’ve ever seen.