Jen Desmarais 
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The last new movie! The first time I saw this, I knew exactly what I was looking at once they descended into the caves. I look forward to this week.
Here is the link for the downloadable materials. (I hope this works…please let me know if you have any problems so I can fix it!)
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| learn about body systems | Watch movie | gardening | Flex | draw by numbers |
Summary of the week
Daily details:
Ballet and martial arts on alternate days
Singing, listening to different pieces, learning piano, learning guitar
We talk about the days of the week and play games with the cutouts of the names. We do the same thing with the names of the months of the year. You can find the print-outs here.
Download material
Practice counting objects and writing how many of each type – (in download material)
Addition and pattern – worksheet
Gardening
Learn about body systems (digestion, respiration, circulation, nerves)
Draw by numbers – in download materials
Next week: Curious George
Caitlyn from League of Legends visited with her cupcake (fitting, since it was this cosplayer’s birthday yesterday!). Go follow Princess of the North on all the socials – she’s awesome!
Pegasus was entranced by this movie, rightfully so. The worldbuilding in this is absolutely brilliant, as are the animations.
As per usual, I didn’t do anything specific for this.
His scales are coming along nicely and he willingly practises both his scales and the pieces in the book.
We are working on the day before and the day after any given day. The months of the year is going well. All months have proper pronounciation now, and we’re working on the month before and after any given month. That’s coming slowly.
We practised the seasons, but he still needs help remembering them in French.
I feel like his dangling letters (g, y) are doing better. He still doesn’t care about spaces or keeping the letters within the space required.
He did a great job with this one this week.
Math worksheets. He did them both on Monday morning because he was so excited to do them once again. He did need a little help with the 3D shapes and with seeing the pattern for the 33, 43, but once I showed him the basic shapes and helped him see the pattern for the numbers, he didn’t need my help beyond that.
We have no French library books this week, so he read some French books through Boukili.
Learn about immigration – he understood the concept and seemed surprised that it happens in real life too (I clarified that it wasn’t fire people in real life, and he seemed less surprised after that).
Make a mini zine – This activity was to write a book, but unfortunately due to sickness, we didn’t spend as much time on this as I had wanted. We only got the outline down on Thursday, and then we used images that he had already manipulated, or unmanipulated images in order to build the picture book. This was entirely Pegasus’s idea, I had absolutely nothing to do with it. I have no idea where he got the idea to be eaten by a bear, or cutting a bear open from the inside.
If Instagram existed in 2003, this is what Kennedy would’ve posted during the book Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests.
Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests is an Urban Fantasy Romance. What happens when superheroes plan a wedding? Monsters, that’s what.
Kennedy and Jason are ready to get married. They just have to deal with evaporating monsters first.
Available for pre-order now!
Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests by Jen and Éric Desmarais is available now!
This movie is perfect for playing around with the elements of a fairy tale, and I look forward to teaching it.
Here is the link for the downloadable materials. (I hope this works…please let me know if you have any problems so I can fix it!)
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| elements of a fairy tale | Watch movie | bake spell cake | Flex | learn about bears |
Summary of the week
Daily details:
Ballet and martial arts on alternate days
Singing, listening to different pieces, learning piano, learning guitar
We talk about the days of the week and play games with the cutouts of the names. We do the same thing with the names of the months of the year. You can find the print-outs here.
Download material
Practice counting objects and writing how many of each type – (in download material)
Addition and pattern – worksheet
Elements of a Fairy Tale – sheet found in download materials
Bake Spell Cake – link to recipes
Learn about bears – link to references, link to video
Next week: Strange World
I adore these outfits, especially the gorgeousness of the dress. I think (correct me if I’m wrong) these might be based on the movie versions at the end.
I also got a picture of Dragon with these two, once she got over her shyness and came out from hiding behind me!
Pegasus was VERY invested in this movie. At the Rainbow Road, and again at the end, he kept hopping around as if he was trying to help the characters. He definitely followed the story, as he told me all about it afterward (even though I half-watched it with him).
As per usual, I didn’t do anything specific for this.
His scales are coming along nicely and he willingly practises both his scales and the pieces in the book. He’s only 20 pages away from finishing the first book.
We are working on the day before and the day after any given day. The months of the year is going well. All months have proper pronounciation now, and we’re working on the month before and after any given month. That’s coming slowly.
We practised the seasons, but he still needs help remembering them in French.
He tried harder to leave a space between the words this week, which was a nice change. Still not paying attention to the bottom line though.
This was an easy one because I wanted him to practise the smaller numbers. He did a great job.
Math worksheets. He did them both on Monday morning because he was so excited to do them once again. He didn’t need my help at all. He wrote one 7 backward, but fixed it when I pointed it out.
We have no French library books this week, so he read some French books through Boukili.
Learn about friction – We watched the video about friction twice, and he was engrossed. I think he understood; he answered the questions I asked him about it afterward correctly. Who knows how long the information will stick though.
Make a board game – He started off wanting the board to look like “Snakes and Ladders”, but after realizing how much work it was going to be to colour in 100 squares, he decided to change it to a pathway board. Sunk-cost fallacy didn’t play into this decision, which I found interesting. He was quite enthusiastic about colouring the new board and completed it in two days. He was enthusiastic about making the dice and his mind was blown when it folded up into 3D. He is very happy with how this turned out.
With a wedding book, there are many characters that show up from the first book, but there are also some new faces, or at least new faces that deserve introducing. We already introduced some of the family members last month, so here are some of the other new faces that are important in Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests.
Age: unknown
Appearance: Grey hair, pale blue eyes, average, white
Job: Reverend at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Anglican Church in East Westmeath, professor at Westmeath University (Ethics and Mythology), sits on the Oldtown Council, Watcher
Family: Niece Veronica Giles
Age: unknown
Appearance: Golden brown hair cut in a bob a shade darker than her skin, light brown eyes with flecks of gold, average height
Job: museum curator at the Royal Canadian Museum of Natural and Cultural History (NCH, or Niche)
Age: 27
Date of Birth: November 22, 1975
Appearance: Red hair, tall, white
Job: CEO of Door Technology, main office in Westmeath
Parents: Margery Door and Robin
Siblings: 11 older siblings
Age: unknown
Appearance: Curly light brown hair, average height, white
Job: Archeologist, works for Door Technology Foundational Technology Division
Sibling: Brother Jacob
Age: unknown
Appearance: Brown hair, average, white
Job: head of Door Technology Foundational Technology Division
Sibling: sister Carol
Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests by Jen and Éric Desmarais is available now!
Another new movie, but this one I adored. Pegasus wanted to make another zine-sized book, so that will be the main activity this week.
Here is the link for the downloadable materials. (I hope this works…please let me know if you have any problems so I can fix it!)
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| learn about immigration | Watch movie | make book | Flex | cont. making book |
Summary of the week
Daily details:
Ballet and martial arts on alternate days
Singing, listening to different pieces, learning piano, learning guitar
On break
We talk about the days of the week and play games with the cutouts of the names. We do the same thing with the names of the months of the year. You can find the print-outs here.
Download material
Practice counting objects and writing how many of each type – (in download material)
Addition and pattern – worksheet
Learn about immigration
Make and put book together (using Canva)
Next week: Brave
