After sitting down and flipping through my Trail Guide to World Geography, several volumes of Five in a Row and my KONOS vol. 1, I decided to drop Trail Guide for the 1st grader and go back to Konos.
I'm dropping Trail Guide, because he would get so much more out of it if he were older. I'm going to put it away until he's about 4th-5th grade.
I'm not going to use Five in a Row with him, because we "rowed" several FIAR books earlier this year and he was ok with it, but he very much loved the hands-on activities in Konos. Five in a Row spends a lot of time on art and relationships. The book selection is also very relationship-oriented. My 6 year-old boy will choose following animal tracks and making a frontiersman's possible bag any day over learning about relationships. (sigh, boys)
So, back we are with Konos. I'm going to restart the Frontiersman/Trapping/Tracking Unit in Attentiveness. I ordered books about Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Texas history, Sacagawea and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Maybe, since he's a little older now, he'll be able to get more out of it than before.
One major complaint about Konos: it needs serious updating. It is so outdated that it's very difficult to use, which is one reason I stopped using it after a couple of the units. None of the books are available from the booklist. They're all out of print. I'm going to need to find my own books and then pick activities that he's capable of doing.
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