Explain to me the difference, is it in the way things are taught??

We are looking into augmenting katrina w/ HS or US work...

Unschooling is basically child-led learning by experience ie instead of using books to learn from, you go out & experience things. For example, say you are learning about crabs. You would then go to the beach & search for them & talk with the adult about them. Some people choose to use curricula but it is based on what the child wants or needs.

Homeschooling is generally the term that covers any kind of schooling at home however most people who unschool with so that instead of homeschooling.

Does that help at all?

We are looking into augmenting katrina w/ HS or US work...

That's great!

As another example, when children are younger like infant/toddler-age, we could all say that, in a way, we unschooled them simply because we taught them different skills based on experience. We taught them to eat by feeding them with the spoon, showing them how to do it & allowing them to use the spoon on their own. We let the child use the spoon on their own when we saw they were ready...in a sense unschooling.

Does that help at all or make it more confusing?! :dunno

Unschooling is more child lead rather than parent lead.
http://www.unschooling.com/library/faq/index.shtml

When our children were younger we were what they call "relaxed homeschoolers" The only "structured" curriculum we used was math. Everything else was topic based (lots of unit studies) and literature based. Science was nature study.

As they've gotten older though of course we're much more structured now. We have curriculum for every subject and I use lit based curriculum wherever we can (history and literature studies)

Unschooling is more child lead rather than parent lead.
http://www.unschooling.com/library/faq/index.shtml

When our children were younger we were what they call "relaxed homeschoolers" The only "structured" curriculum we used was math. Everything else was topic based (lots of unit studies) and literature based. Science was nature study.

As they've gotten older though of course we're much more structured now. We have curriculum for every subject and I use lit based curriculum wherever we can (history and literature studies)

That's awesome! How old are your kiddos now? Just curious! :)

I never knew there was such a thing. I guess you do learn something every day!

That's awesome! How old are your kiddos now? Just curious! :)

Teenagers. We're almost done :( Ages 17, 15 and 13 (11th, 10th and 8th grades)

I was "homeschooled" from 4th grade until graduation. I don't really know what "unschooled" is, but based on what the girls here have said, it sounds like that is actually more like the way it was for me. I taught myself. I had a parent who was not really interested in helping (don't know why she took me out of school if she didn't want to teach me), so I ended up doing 90% of the work myself. I also tested in the 90th percentile for students in the whole country, and managed to graduate a year early.

I did "independant study" which was pretty much the same as home schooling in High School for a few years unil we moved. My Mum also home schooled my little brother and sister last year until they got into the school they are in now. It was wonderful!!