Earthmerlin Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 I'm sorry if this is covered in SOTW or WTM but I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions for timelines when reading SOTW--the logistics of it as well as its storage. I plan to start volume 1 soon and figure a homemade timeline will provide a helpful visual for my visual learner. Do most families have their kids maintain a history notebook with narrations, maps and whatnot as they go through the volumes? I after-school so a) apologize if this seems an obvious question and b) need to modify things to accomodate a more restricted schedule. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthmerlin Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 Also, the timeline question stems (in part) from a kid's hazy feel for history. I have an 8 year old who knows about Attila and Napoleon, let's say. However, when asked she wouldn't necessarily be able to say who lived first, let alone when. Is this typical? I figure a timeline would help remedy such things but am I over-thinking things at this stage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 We don't do a timeline until the second time through, just to minimize what is done for history. First rotation is when we concentrate on cultures, projects, maps, language, and beginning narration. The maps, paper projects, and narrations are compiled in a notebook. However, when we do introduce timelines we like Pandia Press. They fold up accordion-style and have sticker packages available to make it look clean. The bands across separate people from wars, scientific achievements and the like. http://www.pandiapress.com/publications/timeline/ 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetpea3829 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 We made our own with continuous print paper (you know, the stuff from the 90s). I bought History Through the Ages time line figures, and I go through pulling the appropriate figures for each chapter. I created a Word Doc with the figures for each book, and then printed on full sheet label paper. Essentially, I made stickers, lol. I colored them myself and we add them to the timeline as we go. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 We start timelines the second time through. We do it on roll paper as TWTM describes. Kids write in entries and add drawings, photos etc. Simple, oldschool, inexpensive, effective. We pick 5 or 6 dates from each timeline for kids to memorize. It's enough. We don't keep them, but I do take photos before we put a new one up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthmerlin Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 OK, thanks! I like both the homemade & commercial ideas put forth. At age 8 this will be her 1st go around for SOTW, although we have 'studied' history in an organic way until this point. So, this will be her first foray into a chronological study of history. A timeline may help keep things organized. Addressing my previous post, can your 8 year olds place historical figures appropriately in general time? I'm just trying to gauge things here, that's all. Hmmm.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 No, my dc can not place historical figures accurately without some clues from me that are related to other things they have studied recently. I think this is super typical. We did a homemade timeline for each book with homemade cards. It sounds like you might want to consider a timeline like a clothesline with colorful pictures, or something of that I'll that you could leave out for a while for casual viewing and discussion. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthmerlin Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 No, my dc can not place historical figures accurately without some clues from me that are related to other things they have studied recently. I think this is super typical. We did a homemade timeline for each book with homemade cards. It sounds like you might want to consider a timeline like a clothesline with colorful pictures, or something of that I'll that you could leave out for a while for casual viewing and discussion. O, an excellent idea--a moveable 3-D timeline! I'm digging this clothesline timeline idea!!!😃 You made my day! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shawthorne44 Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Also, I read about a family game. To make the game, you make an index card for each person/event as you learn. On the back you put the year (or year range). Then to play the game each person draws out two cards at random and has to say which came first. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyroo Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 We have a loooooong time line (50 feet) that stretches around our entry way and hallway. It is up high, because at this stage it is for looking, not touching. Currently I have 77 cards (with pictures and short text blurbs) posted on the time line that correspond to events and people that we have read about in history. I also have duplicates of the cards that we play with. I might hand each of the boys a card and have them stand under that event on the time line. Or I might give the older boys a half dozen cards and challenge them to put them in the correct order (referring to the time line) before the egg timer runs out. At this stage (my kids are 2, 4, 6, and 8), I view history and the time line as just exposure. I don't expect my kids to really remember dates or details - I just want them to start hearing the names/vocab/stories. All I really want them to get out of the time line is the general idea that people and events lived and happened at a particular time in history. Just because King Narmer united Upper and Lower Egypt in the past, and Rome fell to the Visigoths in the past, does not mean that those two things happened in even remotely the same time frame. For now, I don't even really care if they remember which one came first, as long as they understand that different things happened at different times. I'm planning to leave our long time line up for many years to come. When my oldest starts the logic stage, though, he will start making his own book time line as he goes through his second history cycle. Wendy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthmerlin Posted February 9, 2018 Author Share Posted February 9, 2018 Hmmmm....I truly like this idea of timeline games! It seems the next ligical step! Any other ideas out there? Any commercial ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rachel Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 Addressing my previous post, can your 8 year olds place historical figures appropriately in general time? I'm just trying to gauge things here, that's all. Hmmm.... My 8 year old cannot. My 10 year old does ok with the general timeline. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondeviolin Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 We don't do timelines till 4-5 grades and up. In all honesty, my kids remember where the big things fall in relation to other pieces of the story. Nobody here is confusing the Black Death and Ancient Greece because they are in two different sections/time periods. Some of our projects are memorable and they hang the reference from those too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trilliumlady Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 Following as I’d love to hear other ideas on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hobbes Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 I printed timeline pages on cardstock from the beginning of SOTW-ish to present. Got a big binder and put all the pages into clear page covers. We pull them out and add stuff a lot. Books we read, events we learn about, etc. As we add, I'm seeing the girls (8+10) get a feel for time periods of history and the relationship of events. My plan is to continue with this one big binder until they are older and then have them make individual timeline books on a later history cycle. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixpix5 Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 We have a loooooong time line (50 feet) that stretches around our entry way and hallway. It is up high, because at this stage it is for looking, not touching. Currently I have 77 cards (with pictures and short text blurbs) posted on the time line that correspond to events and people that we have read about in history. I also have duplicates of the cards that we play with. I might hand each of the boys a card and have them stand under that event on the time line. Or I might give the older boys a half dozen cards and challenge them to put them in the correct order (referring to the time line) before the egg timer runs out. At this stage (my kids are 2, 4, 6, and 8), I view history and the time line as just exposure. I don't expect my kids to really remember dates or details - I just want them to start hearing the names/vocab/stories. All I really want them to get out of the time line is the general idea that people and events lived and happened at a particular time in history. Just because King Narmer united Upper and Lower Egypt in the past, and Rome fell to the Visigoths in the past, does not mean that those two things happened in even remotely the same time frame. For now, I don't even really care if they remember which one came first, as long as they understand that different things happened at different times. I'm planning to leave our long time line up for many years to come. When my oldest starts the logic stage, though, he will start making his own book time line as he goes through his second history cycle. Wendy Brilliant! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted February 11, 2018 Share Posted February 11, 2018 I found some free printable cards online and printed them on card stock. I cut them out at the beginning of each year, and we add them to the wall timeline as we go (leaving all 4 Pandia timelines up). The first two years, I found it easier to find resources, but for SOTW 3 and 4, I made my own. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthmerlin Posted February 11, 2018 Author Share Posted February 11, 2018 You guys are so helpful. A â¤ï¸felt thanks! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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