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Home School in the Woods is the first thing that comes to my mind when a timeline is needed for history. They have a plethora of history timelines and hands-on history activities to help you teach history in your homeschool. If you need a timeline I recommend you look at the Individual Timeline Set (Grades K-12)

My daughter has been a bit obsessive with American history the last few years and I was thrilled to use Timeline Set: America's History (Explorers to 21st Century) with her. With her autism, I knew she would dig into this timeline and create something special for herself for her senior year.

You can purchase Individual Timeline Set (Grades K-12) and they are for all grade levels from K-12^th grade. All of the Timeline Sets below come as a downloadable PDF. 

Timeline Set: Creation to Christ  (Beginning - 100 AD)

Timeline Set: Resurrection to Revolution (0 -1799 AD)

Timeline Set: Napoleon to Now (1750 AD - Modern Day)

Timeline Set: America's History (Explorers to 21st Century)

If you’d rather have the whole timeline set you can also get a collection of all the timelines too.

Timeline Set: America's History (Explorers to 21st Century)

The set came in my email, I extracting the files and had 5 folders. You can print off the timeline figures as many times as needed for your family. You can print on card-stock, printer paper, or a peel and stick paper.

The first folder is the Introduction and Index file. In it you will find ideas on using and displaying your timeline. This file will go over ideas for coloring, notebook, or accordion timelines.

It also has a 2 page index for all the timeline figures included in your set.

Here you can see the two sizes available. The Notebook
size is on the left and the Wall size the right

Here are the timeline figures with the text and without the text. Both of them include the name and the date of the event

The other files are your timeline figures which include a wall and a notebook size. The wall (2.5” X 4”)or notebook (1.5” x 2.75”)  in size. You can also choose to have a text. The text will give you a brief synopsis of the figure’s history. Both of them have the Name of the person/event and the dates. All the timeline files each have 40 pages. The illustrations are fantastic. They are black and white drawings of a person or an event. Amy Pak is an amazing artist and you will love exploring all the details in each one. My daughter prefers the larger wall set with the text in the timeline. She likes to read the information. + The wall size is easier for her to color. You can have your child add their own information into their timeline if you don’t use the text. The possibilities are unlimited to your imagination.

My original plan was to put together a timeline from her American history curriculum last year. My daughter had her own plans. She didn’t want to choose figures/events and leave out so many after we compared it to her curriculum last year. She wanted to use the Timeline Set: America's History (Explorers to 21st Century) to create her own American history timeline book that she can refer back to and have access to each and every one.

I used white printer paper and put them in a three ring binder. She made herself a notebook and decorated the cover. On the back of the notebook, she added the cover of the set so she knows which timeline she has in her notebook.

She is coloring the timeline figures slowly and working on her book several times in the week.  She enjoys reading each one with some help from me. She will probably remember each one and will be able to recall the information. We also have her refer to her timeline when she is reading a book that relates to American History. It’s fun watching her refer to her timeline book when she hears something from a movie or on TV. She runs to get her book to look up the information.

We have used the timeline figures in the past as a biography/event page and adding information to the page about the topic. My son likes doing this to his book report. It's more like a notebook page but, that is how we have used them often. We have also made several accordion timelines over the years too. I’ve never had the wall space to do a timeline on my wall. We like to do the accordion style timeline and put it in a binder.  

I have used several products from Home School in the Woods in the past. What we have always enjoyed about Home School in the Woods is that they make history interactive with hands-on history learning. They have a wide variety of products available.

Project Passport World History Studies (Grades 3-8), Time Travelers U.S. History Studies (Grades 3- 8 ) and, Maps Combo-Pak (US & World Maps). This is just a few of the products you can use in your homeschool.

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The kids are learning about both of the World Wars the last few weeks. We have been reading a book, "You Wouldn't Want to Be a Secret Agent During World War II" by John Malam. Of course, I had to do some kind of activity with spying. How could I resist.

After searching Pinterest and the web I came up with this adventure for the kids. I did the preparation over the summer to for this big week! One activity I did was to make a book safe for the kids. I gathered and made lots of gadgets for this event.

Little Man was the first to notice this on the white board this week and he has literally been climbing the walls each morning wanting to get into action. Talk about motivation getting all the school stuff done.

We had target practice during camp to make sure they can take down the bad guys. 

Then they had to learn all the tricks of being a spy. I used TopSpySecret.com to sharpen the kids knowledge and terminology. We practiced how to do a, "dead drop" and how not to get, "burned" and pretty much everything in the spy dictionary. Here is the link to the spy dictionary.

Since Bug is the, "Bug expert" her expertise was debugging the scene so Little Man could move in and do his stuff. (She was pretty excited to collect all the bugs at each scene)!

 Next, the kids learned how to read and collect finger prints. 

 Bug remembered that my Kindle had finger prints all over it. I guess I need to clean it more often! 

I will post the mission that the kids had to go on in another post.

 I hope and pray everyone had a wonderful week. We had a fairly quiet week. Here are some of then highlights of our school week.

We are in Sonlight American History Part 2

Scripture memory verse:

Psalms 1

Bible

We are in the book of Kings and learning about the life of Elijah and Elisha. We have also been working on a workbook, "God's Puzzle".

Read out Louds

We finished reading, "The Great Wheel" by Robert Lawson.

This week we read, "You Wouldn't want to be a Skyscraper Builder! A Hazardous Job You'd Rather Not Take" by John Malam. If you have never read any of these books from this series you are missing out on some fun and educational books. I highly recommend them.

We started reading, "Brave Kids True Stories from America's Past Cora Frear" by Susan E. Goodman.

We read, "Into the Sky" by Ryan Ann Hunter".

For Poetry we are reading, "The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems" By Donald Hall.

Physical and Health Education

Little Man did Karate this week. We didn't make it to PE this week as daddy needed the van. His battery went out on his truck. We did some jumping on the mini trampoline and jump roping. 

Therapy and Appointments

We had a quite week with appointments. Bug did do speech, occupational, and physical therapy this week.

I canceled horse therapy this week as Bug was a little under the weather. We will have a few weeks off of horse therapy until January.

History and Geography

This has been a full week of building things. We have learned about skyscrapers and how they are built. The kids wanted to know what the tallest one was. I let the kids get on the internet and search it out for themselves.

Little Man is fascinated with bridges after last week. He ended up making the suspension bridge his task this last week. He really took ownership of this craft.

             He worked hard getting it all together. Mom helped when he needed it.

 I found this craft from Confession of a Homeschooler blog and we tweaked it some to fit our needs. You can get the instruction from her site.

Bug thought it was difficult and didn't want anything to do with it so she made a skyscraper.

He is pretty proud of himself. He wants to take it to the county fair come this spring for 4-H. He wants to find some more realistic boats and glue some cars on the bridge. You did a great job Little Man!

The kids also created a Ferris wheel. It was a pretty simple task. I prepared a lot of it before hand over the summer. 

 It was kinda of a little crude craft. It was fun after learning about the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

 As far as Bug was concerned is that it works and can go real fast. She tested it out for us.

 I will show you in another post how we made our Ferris wheel. Way to go Bug.

The kids also reminded me this week that we haven't done much in our passport book lately so we played catch up and them mapped out the states that we missed. I love that my kids keep me on track when I get off course.

Language Arts and Math

Bug is revisiting rounding off, estimating, and greater than less than in math this week. She had a hard start remembering some of it. After a few days it clicked with her again.

I did a big review on phonemes with Bug this week as this is something I have to do with her often. It's very helpful as she tends to regress with her skills from time to time. She did awesome with the review.

I also decided to review phonemes with Little Man and he must of had his mind on other things like building his bridge. He knew it just didn't want to do them. 

We played catch this week while remembering are math facts. The kids love it when we add action into math. I don't blame them. I may have to do this with Little Man on his karate vocabulary for his next belt he needs to test out on.

Science

We did science this week! The kids are learning about the sun and what it does for our planet. The kids got to be Environmental Scientist this week. We read a few books that I had on the sun.

Hebrew, Art, Misc.. Studies

We did a lot of drawing this week. Little Man still had bridges on his mind and did an awful lot of drawing of bridges. Bug did her favorite thing with drawing insects.  

Hebrew is still doing good. Bug is learning some of her Torah portion for her upcoming Bat Mitzvah next year. Little Man is doing awesome in Hebrew.





 

We finally did our gold panning activity after we learned about the gold rush. I am a week behind on this activity. This is an easy activity to do at home.

Supplies:

Strainers
Large Pan like a dish pan
Beans all kinds
Gold Paint
Plastic bag 
Rocks of various sizes
Sand (optional)
Water is optional 
Scales (optional)

You will need to paint the beans and rocks in advance. All you need to do is to add some of the gold paint to a baggie and put the beans and rocks you want painted gold into the baggie and shake! Don't paint them all gold as you need to have something to hide the gold ones.

You can also use sand. I didn't use sand since I knew it would be cold outside when we did this activity. Y'all know how messy sand is inside and it's not very fun to clean up.

 I bought my strainers at the dollar store in the summer time. We already had our math scales.

See all the gold beans! Okay, so I made it some what easy for the kids. I didn't want to spend hours at this activity!

 Bug had fun looking for the gold nugget. I actually had a fools gold nugget that I picked up a long time ago. I had them search for that first before they pulled out the painted beans and rocks!

 Bug was the first one to find her gold nugget. Way to go Bug!

Then she got to see how many ounces of gold she had. Well it didn't actually register on the scale.

So we added more gold to the scale.

 Little Man is not one to hold back! He made it known that he found gold and is rich! He did tell me that, "he would share his fortune with his family":+)

He had already added all his gold to the scale.

 It entertained them for a good hour after we finished up our activities. Which included weights and how to use a scale.

A fun filled activity that's easy to do and makes learning about the gold rush fun.

During our Civil War studies we did a canteen craft. I found the idea on Pinterest and it took me to this website. I changed a few things on the craft.

Supplies:

• 3 paper plates
• Markers, paint, or crayons
• Stapler
• Water bottle lid 
• Yarn
• Hole punch
• Newspaper

 I stapled the water bottle on one of the plates.

 I stapled three plates together and left the top open.

 We stuffed newspaper into the canteen. That's why I used three plates instead of two. You can find the rest of the instructions from the website I found the craft.

 I suspect Little Man will have many adventures with this project.

Blessings and have a wonderful day!

The kids are studying about cowboys, and the cattle drive. I found this real neat craft for the kids. This is the link to where I found the craft.

The supplies that you need are as follows:

• Cowboy Template*
• Coffee filter
• Food coloring- orange, yellow, and red
• Wax Paper
• Dropper or straw
• Paper plate
• Glue Stick
• Scissors 

Th kids had fun watching the coffee filters transform into the many different colors. We also used a craft stick to smear around the colors.

We let them dry overnight.

It would of been fun to put some rope around the edges of the plate. Like I said in a previous post I would love to Modge Podge  this silhouette on a piece of wood or an old piece of fence wood. No wood available-unfortunately.

Last week the kids made a Native American Indian Bag Craft. 

 This is a craft kit that I picked up at Hobby Lobby for around $5.00. This was definitely a craft I had to do a lot of it. The sewing is quite a bit. That is okay they kids loved helping with it. The bag is actually real sturdy.

 Little Man is thinking of all the stuff he can carry in his new pouch!

 Bug is more interested in trying to figure out how to make it more girly!