Timeline Notebook

One thing that really attracted me to the Classical Conversations curriculum is the use of the Veritas Press time line flash cards. I love the idea of teaching my children history via a chronological method that begins with the beginning of time and moves to modern day.

Naturally, you can add this to any curriculum you happen to be using and you don't have to use the Veritas Press cards. One thing we are doing at my house to aid in our understanding of chronological events is making a timeline notebook. I have one page in a page protector that is titled with the titles of the Veritas timeline cards. On each page (as we get to it) we are making some picture, clip art, mini-book, crafty project that corresponds with the event. This is all on a very high level since Ashlee is 8. Eventually, when we've made it through all the time line cards, we can study any event in a little more depth and add more information to that page. At that point we can also study anything else in history and know where in the timeline to plug it in.

I like this method of study because it's makes history chronological for my daughter while also appealing to her arts and crafts nature.

I just read a great article that I found while looking for an element for our current page. It can be found here - http://www.ehow.com/how_5058537_make-timeline-notebook-child.html

Be sure to take note at the bottom of the article the section called resources. There is a link to portraits of historical figures - http://www.lib.utexas.edu/exhibits/portraits/index.php - that looks awesome!

I'm going to bookmark each of those resources on my sidebar too to make sure I have them for the rest of our notebook.

Happy Homeschooling!