Chiang Family Life: Homeschool Antics

For the last four years I have homeschooled the girls. At first while I was working for the church I attended I did a hybrid of local school and some days at home. Since moving on from my job, thankfully, homeschooling has been the number one priority and it's the joy of our lives. We are free from the shackles of traditional schooling and revel in learning everyday. It's a joy to learn along side the girls and hopefully here I can share the beauty of it. We follow the Charlotte Mason method of learning and it's truly God's gift to us. As soon as Evie turned four she was at the right time in the year to go to kindergarten. Looking back she was too young, unlike Tilly who was raring to go.

Evie is a homebody and a lot more introverted than Tills, in fact they are polar opposites. However, I guess she survived the school kindi system and did have some teachers who loved her and cared for her. It was only for the mornings and she still spent all of her afternoons with me. Here are some photos of her kindergarten life. After she had spent two years there. At first, the teachers assumed something was wrong with her. She refused to speak. Indeed she refused to speak for the entire two years. Despite this fact, she was well liked and did have a few friends. They were very kind and patient with her. Because of her refusal to speak the teachers assumed she had developmental problems. They told me I could get her checked out, see if she had autism, or something like this. I reassured them that she spoke happily at home and her not wanting to speak to them was probably due to the fact that her Mandarin wasn't strong and she is very shy. So they just accepted her the way she was.