Timeline: Let’s count!

In this post I am going to show you a timeline I created for my English classes. As a first cycle of Primary teacher, it is very difficult to develope an activity in which my students create their own timeline. This is why I decided to create it myself to work on numbers with my first graders and on days of the week with my second ones. You can see the timeline by clicking on the image below.

The aims of this timeline is to reinforce my student’s knowledge about numbers, as well as get them close to new basic vocabulary such as days of the week and food. Also, it is aimed to encourage my student’s interest in reading through a traditional English story book: “The very hungry caterpillar”.

Timetoast is very useful to achieve these aims because children can experience both numbers and days of the week as a sequence of words. It eases the acquisition of the new vocabulary.

These are the steps I followed to carry out the activity:

1. Present the real book to my students and find out what they know about it.
2. Read the book in front of the class with my students sitting on the floor.
3. Present the timeline by using the digital board.
4. Check what my students have learnt through different activities, both individual and group ones.

Although, in my case, my students could not do their own timelines due to their age, I think this kind of activity could be developed by second cycle students with our guide and by third cycle ones on their own. If we use timeline from early ages, pupils could get used to this format and feel curious about how to create their own ones.