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BeckyC
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My oldest daughter is now 8 and we will begin American History this year. I plan to do a wall timeline, but would also like her to have her own timeline notebook (like Homeschool in the Woods or others out there).
Should one timeline notebook be used for the entire school years being added to every year? Or have one for the younger years and a new one for 6th grade and up?
I fight my perfectionism all the time and the question constantly nagging me is as my children's writing and drawing improve would they want a newer timeline to reflect that in the higher grades?
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I don't have a good answer, Becky. As your children grow, they might want to "redo" their timeline, so that might answer your question. Let them be motivated.
I thought I'd include Kimberlee's Timeline Notebook which she makes from one from Miller Pads and Paper.
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I'm so glad you brought this up... we just started a Book of Centuries a la Charlotte Mason.
Last year we did a preprinted time line, which the kids really enjoyed. I saved the pictures they colored and have placed them in plastic page protectors in the right places in our book of centuries. Flipping through the pages and seeing old familiar faces is helping the kids place people and time as we add new people and events.
We are doing this in a very "loose" way, which will allow us to make changes as we grow or or redo pages or add as many pictures as we want.
We are also adding in characters from books we have read, though I put those names parenthesis to show they are fictional if that is the case. They kids are always excited to add a new name.
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BeckyC wrote:
| Should one timeline notebook be used for the entire school years being added to every year? Or have one for the younger years and a new one for 6th grade and up? |
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This is the idea in theory....one-child/one-BOC that follows them throughout the years.
One of the things Sonya Schaeffer addressed in her "All Day Charlotte Mason Seminar" was the question of "When to start a BOC." And, her answer was anywhere between 4th-6th grade. (I think...if I remember correctly). And, then she goes on to say the main reason for this is that you want them to be able to have good handwriting and be able to be responsible and take pride for their BOC. You don't want them to go back and really dislike what they wrote b/c it's "babyish." (my words, not hers)
Before that, she encourages a "family BOC" if you want another step to reinforce that concept of time, and just get into the habit of it. You're also doing a timeline, which is what we did last year. I took it down a couple months ago, and presented the BOC to my 2 older girls just last week.
I have a 9.5 yo dd, and an 8 yo dd. I planned on beginning the BOC last year, but it just never happened, and I'm really glad it didn't. They are much more "ready" for it this year.....My 9.5 yo is more careful and deliberate with her writing now....she tends to be on the careless, quick side of things.
And, my 8 yo is VERY artistic and deliberate and careful by nature. Normally I'd say an 8 yo is borderline "too young"....but this is a good example of "it really depends on the child." If I had MY WAY, I'd wait for my 9.5 yo another year....but,  ...for OBVIOUS reasons that won't work. 
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My oldest has her own BOC which she started in grade four. It's in a binder so that she'll be able to add sheets or redo pages next year when she starts studying time periods that she's already covered.
I also have a family BOC for my younger children.
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SuzanneG wrote:
BeckyC wrote:
| Should one timeline notebook be used for the entire school years being added to every year? Or have one for the younger years and a new one for 6th grade and up? |
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Yes. And, it's a treasure after a few years. We don't have a family BOC at all. Each child has their own.
SuzanneG wrote:
| One of the things Sonya Schaeffer addressed in her "All Day Charlotte Mason Seminar" was the question of "When to start a BOC." And, her answer was anywhere between 4th-6th grade. |
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I liked Sonya's explanation as well!!! And I find myself choosing another reason for beginning a BOC around 8 yo...and that is that a child's sense of time is really starting to develop around that age.
I enjoy waiting until a child is starting to understand time a little more, that Our Lord entered it in the fullness of time, and that the child has a place in it as well. That for us has generally been between 3rd-4th grade. I begin by introducing the idea of time unfolding. This is one reason I really like having a timeline to stretch out in front of a child because it makes such a visual memory; I stretch out a fanfold timeline down our long hallway. I have the timeline divided up sequentially and marked out, and around year 0, the fullness of time, I make a bold perpendicular intersection line with the horizontal line of time and this signifies the fullness of time, the point at which Our Lord entered time and lived among us. I place a standing crucifix at about year 33, but not on the timeline...above it. I talk a little about the gift of time. And then we place the child's birthday on the timeline. BIG visual impact. Then we add in other dates for people we know...Mom and Dad, siblings, grandparents. Kids always think grandparents are SO OLD...but when they see how close everyone is on the timeline a relationship begins to develop, and an understanding of time and where they are in it, and how much time has passed. I explain that we're going to add in some of "the rest of the story" as we read in history. We walk from one end of the timeline to the other...and it makes such a huge visual impact. And we start from there.
I do all of the above through a fan-fold paper timeline I made for demonstrating the concept of time, but for each child's actual timeline, they use a notebook which follows them, year in and year out, with each new year receiving additions. Sure, those first additions aren't the same as later ones, and handwriting has changed, but I love them all and the kids really enjoy looking at their BOC. Each addition has been a reflection of a significant event or person read about through treasured books.
HTH! 
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