Big Picture Bible Timeline

We have it and love it. We use it with Catherine Vos’s The Child’s Story Bible in first grade. We are proceeding through the Old Testament chapters right now. We use Sonya’s scroll idea presented in the module in which the timeline is suggested. I bought mine through Amazon. I suggest buying a used book in very good condition or a new one. Hope that helps.

May the Lord bless your homeschool, Mollie

Yes, it is. It is also available from Rainbow Resource but you may want to call first because they were on back order recently. 🙂 I cut the binding and had it spiral bound so I could reproduce it easily for my three year old to make her own if she wanted to. 🙂

Abbynellie,

From page 10 of Joshua – Malachi & Ancient Greece by Sonya Shafer (which is Module 2): 

• The Big Picture Bible Time Line by Carol Eide (grades 1–6)If you want a time line for the younger children while the older children add entries to their Books of Centuries, the pages in this book will be a great help. The drawings and captions are simple and will help the children rememberthe people and events of Joshua through Malachi in order. Ancient Greece events are not included in this time line,but could easily be added if desired. An easy way to store these pictures as the timeline grows is to tape them end to end and wrap them around a dowel rod, making the timeline into a scroll. It saves a lot of space, and students can still unroll the scroll to various places and look at the events in chronological order. Note: Some dates may not be identical to the ones listed in the Book of Centuries column in this book. But you can still follow the captions to note when to use the pictures.

• The Child’s Story Bible by Catherine Vos (grades 1–3)Recommended for portions of the Old Testament account that might best be reworded to be appropriate for younger children. (See Living Books explanation on page 120.)

 You said: I’m confused. Do you use it as a scroll or get it spiral bound?

Answer: Both. The Big Picture Bible Time Line comes as a “perfect bound” book with perforated pages that you can tear out and post on the wall, etc.  You can reproduce” (photo copy) the pages within the immediate use of your family or for ministry purposes.  I don’t like perfect bound books so I get many of my school books’ bindings cut off and spiral bound at an office supply store. I like my book to stay flat when reading it or photo copying it. 

 

I photocopy the current page to give my three year an opportunity to make her own scroll (as mentioned in the above quote from Sonya’s book. The scroll is fun to make and it saves space because you can roll it up and put it away when you aren’t using it. 

Does that help? I think I assumed that you got the idea for buying the timeline book from the history module. I apologize if I confused you.