This week was not originally intended to be deer themed – but when I saw that the Full Moon for July is the Buck Moon, I decided to switch it up. We started this small study with the new moon, and I loved the symmetry of it. I love it when a theme comes together!
We are still schooling over the summer, but taking it a little easier – less table work, more play. Although my boy asks for table work so I had to find more as the week went on. I guess I love a theme, and he loves a routine. We worked on the letter D, pattern recognition, handwriting, counting and number identification, and read a few cute books. We learned simple facts about white-tailed deer, about their white-tails, how they have hooves, about antlers. That a male deer is a buck, a female a doe, and a baby is a fawn. That they live in herds, and eat plants. All in all, it was a pretty easy-going week, with lots of opportunity for whimsy and drama, with his deer mask and antler crown.
Our art projects this week were particularly fun. We had bought sun art paper to play with for the summer solstice, and we had some leftover, so we pulled that back out and made some deer sun art. Then last year, when we were participating fully in the Kid’s Moon Club, we made an antler crown for Wyatt, which he loves to wear still. So this year, we made one for his little toy badger Henry, that he loves to pieces and sleeps with. So now they both have little antler crowns. My cousin said that Wyatt looks like a character from Peter Pan in his crown!
Resource Round Up:
White-Tailed Deer Unit – Stephanie Hathaway Designs
Deer themed books that we read:
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Imogene’s Antlers || The Deer in the Wood
Extras:
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And that is about it for our week of deer! Next week we start birds!
Still Life, With Cracker Crumbs.. 
I adore the crown. Adore it. What a great idea with the deer. He’s so darling, Erin, and you’re dong such a fabulous job with the teaching. If I was Wyatt I’m not sure I’d want to go back to real school!
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Aw thanks Jeannie! I have to admit, I am really enjoying our learning time too! And if I have my way, he might not, or at least not for a few years… he is really thriving right now, and part of me wonders if he just needed the space and time to grow and explore. He has never really had that time, in therapy since he was a baby three times a week, then add in preschool at three plus the therapy, he was busy! I think this has been good for him in some ways – although traumatic in others, like missing my family and being so isolated. 😦 I told Billy about Rick’s planned ride and he thought it sounded like such a cool thing to do!
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Great photos, and what fun you had! Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks Laurel-Rain!
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Deer are such beautiful creatures. That looks like a fun unit.
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They really are! One of my girl names I had picked out for Wyatt was Faline.. which I love, first for the meaning (catlike!) and also because Bambi! 🙂
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This is adorable! And your little one looks so content ❤
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Thank you! And he loves his little badger Henry. 🙂
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Love how he asked for table work. Wyatt is a high achiever and a go-getter!
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Man, it’s posts like these that make me miss teaching. Although, I don’t think I’d ever survive homeschooling. Sounds like it turned out to be a great week of learning!
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Lol! I definitely don’t think I could handle teaching a classroom of students! Just one is good for me. I am so glad that you enjoyed this post and to have such good feedback from a teacher too! 🙂 Thank you!
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