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As Christians, we know that our worldview shapes the way we see the world, including history. But is the Notgrass History program an accurate portrayal of the past or a biased, whitewashed version? Let’s delve into the concept of whitewashing and examine whether it applies to this Christian homeschool curriculum. As an affiliate with Notgrass History, it disturbed my to discover many people were googling the question ‘Is Notgrass History Whitewashed? Hence, I decided to write this article to answer the question.  What is Whitewashing? Whitewashing is like a bad paint job on a historical canvas. It’s like slapping a...

Hi! I’m Liesl! It is conference season again and I wanted to share our free conference handouts not only with those who are attending/attended this weekend’s conference, but for my audience in general! I hope you find some helpful resources here! If you attended the homeschool conference, you probably noticed that we have a lot of history and science resources as well as other packets for German, Spanish, math (K-2 math activities bundle and the huge multiplication/division bundle), spelling activities and more! In this post, I hope to help you find the units or bundles you might be interested in!...

More and more, children, long associated with innocence and joy, seem to terrify us. In the forthcoming novel Cutting Teeth, a group of bloodthirsty 4-year-olds are suspects in a murder case. Baby Teeth features a little girl who “may have a truly sinister agenda,” as the novel’s jacket copy explains. And on the 2022 HBO show The Baby, an adorable infant falls from the sky and then lots of people die. In these stories and the many others like them, maternal ambivalence, ordinary and healthy for a mother to express, is transmuted into a horror story in which children have...

One of the most frequent emails I get is over our  Homeschool Classroom. And the most common question is, WHERE DOES IT ALL GO? (as in, is that REALLY all you have in your homeschool classroom?) And the answer is YES. And the answer is also NO. You see, we homeschool in our dining room. so our classroom must be used for learning and eating, It MUST be clutter free. It also MUST be  a warm and friendly environment for learning. I keep only what is necessary for daily schoolwork in our classroom. The rest is very loosely organized in other...

Adding extra books to your homeschool related to the main topics you’re studying is a great way to enrich your children’s education. This simple practice is easy to implement and pays off in allowing your children to learn more about your topics outside of lesson time and instill in them a love of learning. A common practice in most homeschools is to have a curriculum spine that sets the overall topics and time periods about which we’ll be learning. In our family, we use AmblesideOnline (AO) for this and generally follow the book recommendations listed there for our primary reading...