Preparing Our Jewish History Timeline - Day 1

Yesterday, our Edot students began to work on an oversized Jewish History Timeline, which will become a major prop in our Edot Fair skit this coming Sunday, May 3rd.  I had blocked out the time periods on a long sheet of butcher block paper ahead of time, and now it's the students' turn to translate the major Jewish historical events and eras we've studied this year and last (a good review for 6th graders who were in Edot class last year) into an illustrated timeline.

While several students at a time worked in Room 202 on the timeline, the other students had plenty of work to do in Room 201. Each student was given a large envelope with a specific date or era and description of what occurred at that time in history written on the front. The students were asked to go through all the magazine clippings cut out during our past two weekday sessions, and find those most appropriate to their assigned historical event/era, which they were then to put into the envelope. Once they had finished this assignment, they were asked to create two illustrations for their event/era which would be added to the timeline. Some students decided to continue looking through the magazines, to find more pictures to cut out.

Both sessions flew by quickly, but a lot was accomplished. We have two more days to work on the timeline before the Fair, so stay tuned to watch how a blank piece of butcher block paper is transformed into an amazing Jewish History timeline!