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When To Begin History Timelines??? Cindy Rushton Answers Your Questions...

When To Begin History Timelines??? Cindy Rushton Answers Your Questions...

Hi!

Great questions!

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Originally posted by stampalot My question is: When can kids really grasp time line notebooking? How important is it to go chronologically thru the Bible and ks teaching History and Bible together for first grade important? I guess I'm coming from wantintg to just do Bible w/o adding American or ancient history to it.. Ideally want to not follow units but right now it seems to fit our needs. time and time to plan. Hope I'm making sense. looking at konos or weaver.maybe??? I haven't read Cindy's books yet, maybe that will solve my questions?? TOOOO many choices in how to educate.

These are great questions! Tough ones that really make a big difference! Glad you asked!

As for when kids can grasp timeline notebooking...I think that there is a great value in setting up a timeline in a notebook. If it is set up like a book, they get the "feel" for history being a long, long story--from beginning to end. Make sense? One thing happened after another after another... They can see who lived at the same time and what events transpired around their lives. This is an incredible way to SEE and KNOW history in an awesome way!

Setting up a timeline notebook helps to free you up to teach history in units OR chronologically. Either is fine. I began wanting to go straight through history from the beginning. Funny thing, as we went back through a 2nd...3rd...4th time, I realized that in each time through we missed people and events. It is SO impossible to teach it all--there is always more to learn. Sooo, all of that said to share my view at the end of the journey--it is OK to study units OR go straight through. The best way to give a solid view of history in order is to build a timeline notebook. That pulls it all together and gives the children a more complete view of all of the chain of events and how so many people interacted. We have gone back through World History in high school. Then, it was as if EVERYTHING we studied throughout the years just fell together.

Sooo, if you are looking at teaching your children units and you are afraid they will not get a full view of history, try timelines. If you are wanting to go straight through with as thorough of a study of history, be sure to take frequent stops to dig deeper into the lives and times that make history studies fun.

If you are wanting to teach Bible without including history, that is fine for now. However, Bible Study becomes sooo miraculous by showing God's hand in history and by showing the background events in history that made the Bible stories happen. For example, studying about Moses is not nearly as full without also studying about the oppressive reign of the Pharoahs. Studying about the pyramids (that the Israelites were helping to build) shows how TOUGH the slavery was for the Israelites--people God had called to rule and reign! OHHH! The book of Daniel is simply a mystery without historical studies. Those descriptions of "beasts" are actually descriptions of REAL LEADERS and REAL WORLD EMPIRES! Not only can Bible studies become REAL, but also History finally makes sense!

Does this make any sense? Hope this helps a bit!

Love,
Cindy

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