From cave paintings to Instagram reels, humans have always found ways to say:this is important, don’t forget it.

The truth is, history isn’t just dusty dates and kings. It’s memories. It’s the stories we tell (and sometimes the ones we don’t). And it’s how each generation passes something on to the next.

So let’s dive in…

🛠️M – MAKE: Capture a Moment

Invite your young Knowmads to write, draw, or create something about a moment they’d like to remember. It could be something big, like a birthday, a trip, a family celebration, or something beautifully ordinary, like baking biscuits, climbing a tree, or cuddling the cat.

This simple activity shows that history doesn’t only belong in textbooks. We’re making it every single day.

Want to go further? Put everyone’s “moments” together in a family time capsule, scrapbook, or memory jar. What would your future selves want to remember about today?

💬A – ASK: How Do We Record the Past?

Humans havealwaysloved a good story, and have been finding ways to keep them alive throughoral traditions, music, art and symbols, writing, objects, buildings, technologyetc. Have fun looking at examples of some or all of them.

Here are a few questions you might explore together:

• Who decides what gets remembered and what’s forgotten?

• Is memory always reliable?

• What happens when people remember things differently?

• How might our time be remembered in 100 or 500 years? Through TikToks, cloud storage or something we can’t imagine yet?

🧭 Explore further:

Watch:What Is History For?(CrashCourse World History, short & thought-provoking)

Read:History Year by Year(DK Children’s) - a visual timeline that makes history feel alive

Visit: a local museum, archive, or even a monument or an old churchyard - look at the ways people in your area have left their mark

💛P – PAUSE: Our Everyday History

Here’s a gentle reminder:you are making history right now, even if it doesn’t feel like it.

Not in the sense of “famous events,” but in the little things your children will one day look back on and remember. The meals, the hugs, the messy projects, the way you showed up.

Sometimes home-ed feels like a race to “cover everything”, but the truth is, what your kids will remember most are the feelings, like being seen, being heard, being loved.

So this week, pause and ask yourself:

✨ What do I want my children to remember about these days?

✨ What’s one small thing I can do to make today a memory worth keeping?

Because history isn’t just in books. It’s a story of all of us.

So don’t underestimate the power of small, ordinary moments.

They’re the ones that stick.

Big hugs,

Anna xx