I'm wanting to do a timeline for next year but not sure how to do it! Where do you put it? How much room does it take up? It is at kid level or higher? The only big wall space I have is at the top of a room- and I'm worried the kids won't be able to see it. If I put it at eye level, then it gets chopped all up- a few pieces here and there! Please share what you do!
We have a large wall in our kitchen that I use. You can also put it along the top somewhere, like a border. Or you could do a notebook instead: http://donnayoung.org/history/timeline-cw.htm
Ours (from my 2 younger kids) is on our office right above the chair rail....at their height. It's a piece of poster board we cut that's about 5 inches tall and then the length of the posterboard. We add more as we need it. We're using our Timeline figures that come with Sonlight Core 1+2. My older daughter is doing the timeline figures in the actual Sonlight Timeline book for her 7th grade World History studies.
we were gpoing to put ours around our kitchen doorway andmake it small but we flaked on it because we are just too busy this year.
What kind of timeline are you talking about? Is it a historical type timeline or a timeline of what you'll be teaching/have taught?
We use a big roll of butcher paper that I bought at Sam's Club for $15. We made a timeline of Early American History ( beginning to 1700's), Presidents, etc. Now we are starting the Civil War. We are doing one for battles and one for each side ,so 3 total. I make seperate ones for each child and each week we fill in our timeline and then re-roll it up when we are not using it. So we never really have it on display. We either fill it in on the kitchen island ( its 6 foot long) or on the kitchen floor ( we move the table). I make mine about 8-10 feet long so they can have clipart on it too if they wanted.
You could put it on a wall but break it up. Put up a line for a thousand years then below it another line for the next thousand and so on.
eye level down a hallway. I don't care if my house looks like Martha Stewart decorated it. Everyone who enters my house knows I homeschool so a timeline should be no shock to them. Besides, the maps took up all the wall space in the entry way and kitchen. LOL. The hallway was perfect. Of course, every time there was a door, the time line stopped but continued after the doorway.
For many years we had ours down the hall and it was broken up similar to what Dawninns suggested. Now we have ours in a book. The book I am using is a Sonlight timeline book. That works really well but sometimes I have to layer information. There is just not enough room on some pages.
Right now I have a timeline in the hallway upstairs. It's several feet long. When my oldest children were little, we had a timeline on the wall next to the dining room table.
Thanks for the ideas! For those of you who do the hallway outside of your "normal" teaching room, do you find it to be forgotten or a pain to add on to? I have an upstairs hallway we could use but we spend most of our day downstairs.
Mine was in the kitchen, right where we were at, and I STILL had trouble adding to it! You might try to make Friday Timeline Day, and add to your timeline whatever you did during the week.
*excuses herself in advance, not having read this thread, having just read the "why we still homeschool" thread, and being in a mischievous mood* Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii'll tell you where you can put your timeline!
On a more serious note, this is what we do basically too. Erm, except my roll of paper is brown and cost $1 from Dollar General. LOL It's marked as mail packaging paper. I had hubby cut it in half with a big man-tool thingy, and both ends of it stay rolled up on our wall. Ours is below the dry erase board and above the desks (that hubby insisted on buying and are basically big, wooden and metal bookshelves ). Before we adjusted all the stuffs and raised the paper above the top edge of the desks, it was a little hard to get to sometimes. It's not in our main schooling area, but our big living room is kind of a "great room" and this is sorta in no-man's land. If ya kwim. It doesn't get bothered, and is now in a get-to-able place. Like how I'm making up words tonight? I do.
I got ya beat!!! Mine was free, given to me by my neighbor, who directed a day care and found several rolls stored in a room, and since I homeschooled, would I think I might have a use for them....? There was a bunch; I gave one or two of them away. The outer layers were dirty, but easily cut off. And I also cut mine in half.
We got Sonlight's book of time which is a spiral notebook that we can keep in our bookcase. That cost about $23. I like it because it is easy to manage and pretty sturdy. You can also get neat timeline figures from homeschool in the woods. It is nice to have pictures as well as words on the timeline to break it up a bit.
When we used a wall timeline, it was in the hallway. But now we use a notebook timeline that has its own spot on a shelf in the homeschool area. Some people put a chart timeline on a cardboard base that can be folded and slid under a bed or behind a bookshelf. That may be an option.
We are supposed to have a timeline? LOL Ok - I have TRIED for 3 years now to have a timeline going and it never "goes" and dang it I want one. I would like the one down the hallway (and I can always come up with things to do with butcher paper)..... Jacob has a book one - Alexis's got ripped so it went to the trash (not that she had anything in it). I want one of those big triangle type ones.... and I might have to get one.....but I may just do it on the butcher paper down the hall - I have the room.
