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The Family School Timeline – Chain of Christianity

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The Family School encourages the use of a Timeline to show all the Key Links in History that make up the Chain of Christianity.  Last year I didn’t do a lot with the Timeline.  I printed off this ladies timeline which is great, but I put it in sheet protectors in a binder and didn’t really do anything with it except when we would learn about that part in history I would show them when it was in history by pointing to the picture.  This year when I saw that The Family School was adding Timeline Cards, I decided I wanted a usable timeline

I was visiting my family in Orem last week.  They do a group co-op with about 5 moms.  They were discussing how to make a traveling timeline because they rotate houses and need to be able to take it with them.  I suggested putting in on fabric so it could roll up.  We thought of all sorts of things such as laminating 9 feet of timeline, or making it really small.   This is what we came up with….

  • First, we printed out the Key Links from here and then found pictures online or in books/magazines for each key link.  They also could have used the pictures from here which is what I did, but I printed them from my printer at home and they didn’t have a color printer, which you don’t have to have.  They probably saved a lot of money from just finding pictures in magazines and old history books.
  • We bought a roll of felt.  It was 6 yards long and 6 feet wide so we split it in half length wise and made it 3 feet wide and 6 yards long.  I was planning on using the other half, but decided not to.  
  • We put the pictures and words on cute cardstock that was double colored and then laid them out to fit.  It fit perfect on the 6 yards.  
  • We then stapled each card to the felt.
  • We didn’t permanently put the timeline cards on because they are doing Year , and will do it as they learn about each subject.  They are planning on hot gluing, pinning or stapling them on.  
  • We also decided that if there was anything they wanted to just write on the timeline they could do it with permanent marker.  

The kids were so excited to see it the next day when we were doing that foundation lesson. One of them said….”I didn’t know that is when the Nephites lived!”  You can learn so much from having a timeline!
I came home and made up my own timeline.  I decided to just put it in our school/playroom and tape it to the walls.  The kid love it! {sorry about the picture quality It was late at night}  I am going to add a picture of our family to the one that says “my place in Gods plan” and then write things that have happened in our family and put them underneath that section.  I want to put a sign above that says “Chain of Christianity” and laminate some paper chains to go between each picture.  

Comments

  1. This is an awesome post. I just started the History year 1 and I have a tiny house, so I have been thinking up ways I could do a timeline. I LOVE this. Thank you so much for sharing it.