Timelines - how often do you do these?

[Hoggirl]

I am trying to decide which is better: doing the timeline daily or doing it once a week? What do YOU do?

[sweetbaby]

We are actually updating our time line tomorrow. I started out having my dc update weekly but we have been somewhat slack.

[paula j]

I try to plan this for weekly, usually on fridays.

[kim in ks]

We do ours once a week, It's a big Binder, so I don't like to have them get them out daily, then we can put all the weeks event in at once

kim

[Narrow Gate Academy]

Last year we just did it whatever day we read about the topic that we were adding. This year we'll be doing it once a week on Fridays when we assemble the booklets for their lapbooks.

 

HTH

[claire up north]

I am in the process of working out my 5th grade plans. We will be doing a history timeline for the first time this year. I am shooting for about once a month. This will allow the formulation of the timeline to also serve as a prompt to review previous lessons. It will also (I hope) mean that more things get entered on it at once, thereby giving a bigger picture view of things. If we did it every day, I fear that ds would just plop down "The Fall of Rome" and not take the time to see how that relates to Nero's death or Caesar's reign or anything else for that matter.

[NancyNellen]

we update once a week.

[Lydia]

Once a week for us too . . .

 

-Lydia

[TwinMominTX]

I found we were taking too much time looking things up, cutting out, etc., and feel like we've streamlined the process a great deal by saving it up and doing it once per week.

[Melissa in SC]

when need be. Sometimes we don't need to. BUT when we do, we do it on Fridays.

[Hoggirl]

I think we will stick to once a week. We are using Biblioplan, and I think we shall do timeline and map work on our fourth day. I LOVE he once a month idea (what a great way to sneak in a review!), but my ds is not keen on the timeline in the first place, and I fear we would have too many entries all at once.