{"id":22463,"date":"2017-05-12T17:57:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T07:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/?p=22463"},"modified":"2017-05-12T18:32:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T08:32:29","slug":"our-preschool-homeschool-days-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/our-preschool-homeschool-days-march\/","title":{"rendered":"our preschool homeschool days – {march 2017}"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where did all the time go? I intended to post this at the beginning of April but look what day it is now? May is almost over?? But as I look back at these images again,\u00a0this just somehow means we have been filling our days\u00a0with simple joys\u00a0as much as we could…and it gives me enough contentment.<\/p>\n

And earlier today, I sat on a picnic rug, under a tree with another wonderful homeschooling Mama, with her 2 girls playing along with Pixie, running around freely nearby and so engaged together. It was just a grateful feeling being able to witness that simple unstructured play and letting kids be.<\/p>\n

While Pixie napped, I have a bit of time to put this together and finish …so just sharing some bits & pieces of how our March went along… (will put together April next hopefully not too late!)<\/p>\n

\"\" Usual house chores on our mornings….Pixie doesn’t wash daily yet but hopefully it gets into her routine more….
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\n “Mama, let’s just leave the bike home, bring our umbrella and walk then ride the bus so we can go to the library.” Y<\/em>eah, she planned it all when i told her we cant go out coz it started drizzling. \"\"\ud83d\ude06<\/span><\/span> And it still surprises me how she’s looking so tall already being 4!\u00a0quick photo from a\u00a0library visit where we hauled some books and it felt like we may have read a hundred of childrens books there before we left.
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when I saw Pixie sketch a \"\"\ud83e\udd55<\/span><\/span> , i decided to bring out real ones from the fridge to invite her if she like to draw other veggies too–she was hesitant at first coz she only wanted drawing a carrot. Not needing to force her, I felt like trying to draw it myself anyway so thats mine on the top..\"\"\ud83d\ude02<\/span><\/span> she may have been inspired after seeing me finished and decided to draw her own too afterwards.<\/p>\n

“Mama, i made my potato smaller coz it didnt grow yet. And the zucchini color should be darker green.”<\/em> \"\"\ud83d\ude02<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nLiteracy journey using our DIY wooden letters…
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\nCaught this quickly before they knew\u00a0I’m taking a photo of them hehe Brian reminds me to brush Pixie’s hair more …but I admit i’m too lazy to brush Pixie’s hair daily haha Life’s too short to waste it on brushing hair , yes? \ud83d\ude1b
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\nNumbers & sea shells activity…
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\nGarderning with Papa…
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\nHarvesting Kale for soup…
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\n“Mama, look I can draw the herb. And that’s the soil where the herb grows..and there are wormies under the herbs.”<\/em> \"\"\ud83d\ude01<\/span><\/span> — #naturejournaling<\/a> again after breakfast and after she watered her own lil greenhouse daily where we planted herb seeds. \"\"
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“Mama, I love these books! my favorite is all of them!<\/em> \u263a— our happy library finds and tempted to buy our own copies to keep but since we are trying to live a #minimalism<\/a> approach gradually too, borrowing some books sure is a helpful idea \ud83d\ude42<\/span>
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\nI mostly just take candid photos of Pixie but one time,\u00a0I told Pixie to have a quick photo with me (while I set up a timer) because we rarely have photo together during our read-aloud times and I want her to look back one day at this.
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\nPixie has always love making freehand drawings since younger — and so when\u00a0i found out about @_artventure<\/a> (a walk thru online kid’s art class), i decided to sign up for a trial to foster more Pixie’s interests–what a delight to see within just a week, what she’s enjoyed creating so far and confidently saying — “Mama, see, I told you I can draw that.” And what amazes me more is whenever Pixie does freehands afterwards and telling me “Mama, look i made it without watching the video!” \ud83d\ude31\u263a\u2764 Thankful to the lovely artist Kirsty behind @_artventure<\/a> , we are definitely hooked! \ud83d\ude0d<\/p>\n

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\nSo, that one time and first time ever that we got lost in a bush walk, Pixie decided to write a story about it the next day… and I was so amused she drew this and only asked me how she can write the words… \ud83d\ude42
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\nFostering creativity by making her own little toys …
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\nmorning duties: mow 1\/8th of the backyard (yes, just 1\/8th \"\"\ud83d\ude02<\/span><\/span>) = \"\"\u2714\ufe0f<\/span><\/span>; hang all the laundry = \"\"\u2714\ufe0f<\/span><\/span>; biked to farmer’s market lunch playdate \"\"\ud83d\udeb2<\/span><\/span> = \"\"\u2714\ufe0f<\/span><\/span>…and backyard siesta to enjoy the rest of the\u00a0grateful sunny friday!<\/p>\n

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\n“Mama, i think a longer stick fits on this side..we need a shorter one here.. let’s move this one over there …so thats where I can go in and out…”<\/em> —we skipped the afternoon nap coz she decided to build a wooden tent after finding some branches. i only assisted in tying as she still needs to practice more on that area.. but love how she was simply passionate about finding ways to make it all work..and I suggested she find treasures to put on the top if she wanted …so she picked wild flowers and ferns in our own yard…then she thought of writing her name on a used wood and asked help to put a tie so she can hang it.<\/p>\n

oh the way her imagination works is always a delight, giving me so much fulfillment … i get to witness the way Pixie’s eyes beamed as she discovers that incredible feeling of achievement and confidence too leading to many more wonderful transformations that just happen naturally.<\/p>\n

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\nI\u00a0can’t be sure if she’s going to be a musician someday but I’m darn pretty sure she’s a passionate one.\u00a0\ud83d\ude42
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Where did all the time go? I intended to post this at the beginning of April but look what day it is now? May is almost over?? But as I look back at these images again,\u00a0this just somehow means we have been filling our days\u00a0with simple joys\u00a0as much as we could…and it gives me enough …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1169],"tags":[1020,976,1108,1107,1244],"class_list":{"0":"post-22463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-homeschooling-pixie","8":"tag-homeschool","9":"tag-homeschool-australia","10":"tag-homeschooling-journey","11":"tag-homeschooling-pixie","12":"tag-wild-and-free-children"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/2017-03-31_0029.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22463"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23053,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22463\/revisions\/23053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephinesicadphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}