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Aug. 13, 2006

Resourcefulness--Frontier Life Lesson Plans

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Here are my detailed plans for our Resourcefulness--Frontier Life unit. We have actually already started this unit, but I am behind in my posts! I will add details about how things are going in a separate post.

You can view some pictures from our first few days of this unit here:
http://www.konoskarats.com/id12/html

Resourcefulness--Frontier Life

Week 1 of 5

Objectives:
1) Introduce what resourcefulness adn initiative means.
2) Practice/discuss how people are resourceful and how we can be that way.
3) Learn to sew a sampler.
4) Learn to make candles.
5) Learn about and build log cabin models.

Vocabulary:
initiate
initiative
resourcefulness
resources
frontier
prairie
Pioneer

Books to look for:
The Diary of Anne Frank
The Borrowers
Puss in Boots
Wind and the Sun--Aesop
My Side of the Mountain
Back to Basics
The Early Family Home

Movies/Music:
Five Mile Creek (video)
Grizzly Adams (video)
Skip to My Lou
She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain
Square Dance tape/instructions

Activities:
Day 1--
Introduce character trait
Bible: #2 Gen (p3) do a
#9 Gen (p4) initiate--discuss
#10 Gen (p4) initiate--list and discuss
#14 Gen (p4) do a
#31 Gen (p8) "Yankee Ingenuity"

Day 2--
Bible: #2 Gen (p3) do b
#14 Gen (p4) do b
#26 Gen (p7) stranded--pairs--do activities
#36 Gen (p10) What are resources? Discuss.

Day 3--
Bible: #2 Gen (p3) do c
#14 Gen (p4) do c
#8 (p15) logs--how to build
#9 (p15) split logs (chisel/mallet)
#10 or #11 (p16) model of log cabin
#14 (p16) BAC--furniture for models

Day 4--
Bible: #2 Gen (p3) do d
#14 Gen (p4) do d
#17, 18, 19 (p17) candle making
#51 (p21) start samplers
#16 (p17) discuss light

Special Assignments:
All--#27 & 28 Gen (p8)--survival manual and learning from wildlife (&/or lapbook style booklet)

* Each day we read from various unit books to help explain/discuss the info related to the activities for the day.
* We will read daily from a longer book together as a family also. We will start on The Borrowers this week.

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Aug. 18, 2006 - Great Planner!

Posted by curlygirl

Thanks for posting your planner and photos! We are just getting started with KONOS and we are LOVING it! God is wonderful, he slowly brought us from all Abeka to Sonlight now to KONOS, which, IMO incorperates the best of them all!

Your posts are so helpful.
Thank you
Beth

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