Dia Garland

Liz,
 
I try to use the same gibberish that teachers use when describing learning.  Things like "self-directed exploration involving animal science" instead of "learning about different animals".  You can also use "student selected biographical reading" instead of "reading what he wants to",  "practical mathematics" instead of "finding the best buy at the grocery store".  I do have some high school level text books that we use a references.  For me, it helps put things in a chronological order.  I list these texts (American history, world history, biology, physics, chemistry, and Saxon math) in the appropriate areas.  They don't need to know that it is the same book I've listed for the last several years.  I just put "Abeka American history", no title.  My oldest son has read the science texts in their entirety, and refers to them periodically.  My personal view is that text books have their place, others disagree.
 
Hope that helps,
 
Dia

Pam Sorooshian

I took Carol Narigon's unschooling curriculum and fooled with it to make it
more generic and also sort of melded it with some other curriculum stuff to
satisfy the California requirement for private schools to keep a "course of
study" for each child (I recently started a private ISP for unschoolers).
In case anybody else has need of such a thing, I'll upload that to the
files area of this list, too. There is an elementary level document and a
secondary level document. Thank you to Carol for use of her initial document!!!

Pam Sorooshian
National Home Education Network
www.NHEN.org
Changing the Way the World Sees Homeschooling