Little Homeschool on the Prairie: Home School in the Woods Review

My kids have always enjoyed timelines and we have a variety of them on our bookshelves. Home School in the Woods has some unique timelines that cover different time periods with their À La Carte Timelines. We have been using my kids favorite historical time period with The Middle Ages Timeline. I received this as a downloadable PDF.

I have used several products from Home School in the Woods. My family loves history. What we have always enjoyed about Home School in the Woods is that they make history interactive with being hands-on history learning. They have a wide variety of products available. Whether you are learning about a particular time period like Ancient Greece or the American Revolution or a full study you will most likely find what you need to enhance your history curriculum.

À La Carte Timelines are intended for 3^rd to 12^th grade. Currently they have it available for:

Ancient Greece Timeline
The Early Nineteenth Century Timeline
A Timeline of World War II
Timeline of the American Revolution
The War Between the States Timeline
Science, Invention, and Mathematicians Timeline
America's Progress into the 20th Century Timeline
The Middle Ages Timeline
The Renaissance and Reformation Timeline

The Middle Ages Timeline

With use being in our summer schooling we don’t typically do history unless we are playing catch up. My kids are enthralled with all things Middle Ages I knew that this would be a great summer activity. Like I mentioned earlier we are intrigued with timelines and excited to get started.

The PDF has 40 pages. This is meant for one family to print out as many times as needed for your immediate family. There are printing instructions and tips included like folding, cutting the cardstock, and other information.

There are actually two options for your timeline. One is making a notebook Time Line Photo Album: Page by Page which is putting the timeline paper in a notebook ring binder and then the Accordion-fold version. My kids love the accordion style and folding it completely out.

The file is organized nicely with instructions, a blank timeline that has the name of each timeline figure in smaller letters for placement. Next are the timeline figures which are in black and white. You can color the timeline figure if you want to. Also under each timeline figure is a historical event name with the year and a brief line or two of the event or person. You could cut this out or include it in your timeline. My kids wanted the information under the timeline figure.

After that there are completed pages of the timeline figures if you prefer not to cut and paste. I wanted to keep the kids involved and they wanted to color the timeline figures.

It is recommended that you print out the timeline on cardstock. The kids wanted the paper to be colored and I was a bit short on colored cardstock so we had a few that pages that are printed on standard colored paper. The contrast of the colored background makes the timeline figures pop out.

After I printed the papers out I handed them over to the kids to color as they liked. I helped them with cutting them out.

We glued them and assembled the timeline using packaging tape.

We have a kitty who is obsessed with all things tape and we have to hide the tape and lock him up sometimes when taping items. After we defeated Twitch with the tape battle we laid out the timeline to look at it. The kids were pleased with the final results as was Twitch who insisted being on the timeline.

Since, we didn’t have any particular curriculum going we decided to start at the first item on the timeline figure and find out more about the event in our many Middle Ages books we have on hand. If it was something we couldn’t locate we found it on the internet. We did this several times a week until we got through the timeline. Now that the timeline is on our bookshelf we will pull it out next time we come across something in the Middle Ages time period.

Home School in the Woods is a wonderful enhancement to your history studies. They are affordable also. My family is so grateful for the creativity behind Home School in the Woods. We have used several of their items throughout the years and haven’t been disappointed.

Home School in the Woods has a lot of hands on history to explore. One of their newest projects is Project Passport: Ancient Rome.