This page is in the process of being updated. Our family has had a bit of restructuring, so I need to write up a new piece about who Guest Hollow is. I’m dealing with some significant changes right now, so I’ll get to this when I can. In the meantime, I left a bit of the old page up. There isn’t much there right now and it’s not very coherent, but you’re welcome to scroll through the remnants while it’s waiting to be rewritten. 😉
Guest Hollow products include numerous award-winning curriculum schedules, printable worksheets, books, workbooks, and lots more.
Guest Hollow: The Company –
A brief introduction …
A Little History
Early Guest Hollow offerings included worksheets, printables, some hints and tips, and a couple of other items that we had custom-created for our three students as they make their way through the Pre-K through High School homeschooling adventure.
An early curriculum I created for my son and shared on Guest Hollow 
“Otter” was my son’s online nickname – He loved botany, so I created a curriculum for him and shared it.
Guest Hollow Today
a moose and her calf
Guest Hollow: The People
Jennifer
Before Guest Hollow, I homeschooled my three kids.
Some highlights of our homeschool graduates are as follows:
Oldest Daughter
While in homeschool, she spent years volunteering for a local convalescent home. After homeschooling, she obtained a Psychology degree, International Studies degree, and TESL/TEFL Certificate. She did all of this while holding student government office at the college and being named ‘student of the year’ TWICE while she was in college. Later she interned in Japan teaching English to Japanese students through Osaka University of Economics and Law. She is fluent in reading, writing and speaking Japanese, is a published writer, taught English to 7-11th graders at a private school in Japan, and now owns and operates a couple of small businesses in Japan. She married a wonderful Japanese Christian who runs the family businesses with her and is involved in Christian ministry. She has 2 precious boys and a daughter who are homeschooled.
Middle Son
He is a retired Army sergeant who later went back to school, earning a degree in collision repair and refinishing with honors, as well as a master’s degree in business. He now works in law enforcement. He has a wonderful son and a lovely daughter and is married to the sweetest daughter-in-law.
Youngest Son
He’s our last homeschool graduate. While he was homeschooled, he earned his Eagle Scout rank, was a Police Explorer, a CHP Explorer, worked for a local veterinarian, and participated in innumerable community events. He currently works in a law enforcement career.
You can contact me at support@guesthollow.com or via the Contact Guest Hollow page.
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Hi! I always liked your printable lined paper, with the cute graphics surrounding the blank area for drawing. But I can’t find it anymore on the site. I hope you can make that available again, maybe as a purchase-able pdf — I’d be happy to buy one!
Hi Esther, I plan on putting a free package of printables together that includes those at some point. In the meantime, I’ll send some to you via the email address you used to make your comment. 🙂
I’ve been telling new group of homeschoolers on GAB, about your site – I told them to go to your site because you had reviews about curriculums from your 3 kids – I don’t see those reviews anymore – am I missing them? I do love your new website! Fun, beautiful. Hopefully I am just overlooking your kids’ reviews somewhere
Hi Shannon – thank you SO much for telling others about us and for the compliments about the new site. 🙂 We took down the old reviews. They were way out-of-date as our kids are all grown up now and have been for some time. We may be adding new reviews at another time, though!
I am looking forward to purchasing and using your grammar and LA program this coming year! It looks like so much fun. Do you still have the Ancient history curriculum pictured above available? My son really wants to learn about Greek mythology and I noticed it is incorporated in it.
Thanks!
I hope you enjoy our Language Arts! I’m sorry, I don’t have the ancient history curriculum available on the site, however, I will email you a copy. 😉 I’ll use the email you used to make the comment, so be on the lookout for it!
Do you still have an ancient history?
No, we took that down as it was something I created for my son and the links, etc. were totally out of date. 🙂 It will be redone at some point! I’ll email you more details.
Do you still have Facebook & high school group page?I click on links, but it keeps saying “page not found”. This is my first time here, recommended by someone. I took a look at the Biology course & I’m in awe. I know you don’t have one, but I would LOVE a physical copy of that textbook!
Where are you clicking on the links from? 🙂
Here is a full list of the other Guest Hollow Groups: https://www.facebook.com/guesthollow/groups
Are you a Christian company?
Thank you for contacting us and letting us know you are interested in learning what (if any) religious position the curriculum choices created by Guest Hollow, LLC take.
The answer is somewhat complex 🙂
In short, because of the vagaries of definition and interpretation we cannot give you a solid “YES or NO answer.
We want to make one thing absolutely clear to both religious and non-religious customers alike: We do not guarantee either a completely secular-free-experience with our Christian-leaning curriculum, nor do we guarantee a totally religion-free-curriculum even in cases where our materials are not intended to be specifically ‘Christian’ or ‘religious’.
Because such labels have very different interpretations and even very specific meanings in certain circles or situations, we choose NOT to label or market our material as either “religious” or “secular”. At Guest Hollow, we do not nor try to determine, beyond prima facie lines, if labels such as “secular”, “Christian”, or “religious” apply to any of our materials. We leave that determination up to the end-user and customers.
Having said that, SOME of our curriculum are designed to be from a Christian Viewpoint, like Guest Hollow’s Biology Curriculum, and SOME are designed with the intention of being pretty-much neutral – like for instance Guest Hollow’s Chemistry in the Kitchen Curriculum. It simply depends on the specific curriculum you are interested in.
Each curriculum product page contains some level of helpful information. To see this information go to the specific product page for the material you are interested in and look under the FAQ section and you will see the heading: “Is this curriculum Christian or secular”. Click on that heading and a drop-down should pop open with information specific to that particular curriculum.
By way of example here is the FAQ entry from Guest Hollow’s Chemistry in the Kitchen:
https://guesthollow.com/store/high-school-chemistry-curriculum/
Guest Hollow’s Chemistry in the Kitchen Curriculum is not intended to be a “Christian resource”. However, there may be infrequent (or what we consider to be) minor references or links to resources that mention Christian ideas, values, or sectarian topics even in our secular/non-religious/neutral curriculums.
If we schedule in a Christian book, we try to give you notice of such in the books and resources page.
Christians and non-Christians should preview the scheduled books and all other resources such as videos, etc. to make sure they are compatible with your beliefs, philosophies, and values.
And here by way of contrast is a similar FAQ entry from Guest Hollow’s Biology Curriculum:
https://guesthollow.com/store/high-school-biology-curriculum/
Guest Hollow’s High School Biology uses a *spine book that is Christian.
*A spine book is a book that is used as a backbone of a study that students will use often.
Secular families can also use our schedule with the original CK-12 biology book. Click here for more info.
Some of the extra books and resources we schedule in are non-religious in nature.
If we schedule in a Christian book, we try to give you notice of such in the books and resources page.
Christians and non-Christians should preview the scheduled books and all other resources such as videos, etc. to make sure they are compatible with your beliefs, philosophies, and values.
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IMPORTANT: You will also find links to each curriculum’s book and material lists linked on each curriculum’s product page. Customers who are concerned about these issues should thoroughly go through and study those booklists and their associated FAQs in detail. You will need to determine for yourself, book by book, if the books required for any given curriculum contain material that you feel is not appropriate for your audience/student(s).
I hope this helps you to understand our position on this issue.
Again, Guest Hollow, LLC will not claim a completely religious-free nor a completely secular-free experience with any of our materials. Some of our materials do definitely have specific leaning, and we believe we have made that clear on each individual curriculum page.
Thank you for the opportunity to correspond with you about this. If you have any other questions, or if I have not been clear with anything I explained above, please DO let me know and we will make certain you get all of your questions answered