Pictogram of the Tropes in Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests

Image showing the rating for the tropes in Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests. Battle Couple, Wedding Planning, and Superheroes is about 90%, Monsters is about 75%, and Spicy is about 40%. At the bottom, there’s a “Vibes”, which has an image from the movie Argylle (2024).

Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests by Jen and Éric Desmarais is available now!

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Week 28 – Rise of the Guardians

This is such a fun and diverse movie (visually), and I love the activities with it. Making ice cream is a new one, so I’m looking forward to trying that out!

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!)

MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
make ice creamWatch moviedesign DreamlandFlexlearn about moon

Summary of the week

Daily details:

Dance

Ballet and martial arts on alternate days

Music

Singing, listening to different pieces, learning piano, learning guitar

Crochet

On break

Basic Information

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.

Printing words

Download material

Counting objects/math-type activities

Practice counting objects and writing how many of each type – (in download material)

Addition and pattern – worksheet

Storytime

Activity

Make ice cream (link)
Design Dreamland
Learn about the moon – telescope, link

Next week: Mulan

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“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! https://www.jeneric-designs.ca/books-and-timeline/universal-book-links/#MIWG Cover art by @pinkpiggy93 #MonstersIncidentalWeddingGuests #JenDesmarais #ÉricDesmarais #authors #book #PressesRenaissancePress #pinkpiggy93 #artist #UrbanFantasy #RomanceBook #superheroes #BattleCouple #original #booktok

♬ Shadows Live for the Light (From the Book “Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests: The Gates of Westmeath, Book 2”) – Jen Desmarais
“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!
https://www.jeneric-designs.ca/books-and-timeline/universal-book-links/#MIWG
Cover art by @pinkpiggy93

#MonstersIncidentalWeddingGuests #JenDesmarais #ÉricDesmarais #authors #book #PressesRenaissancePress #pinkpiggy93 #artist #UrbanFantasy #RomanceBook #superheroes #BattleCouple #original #booktok

Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests by Jen and Éric Desmarais is available now!

Indigo Books Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests
Archambault Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests
Amazon Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests
Rakuten Kobo Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests
Apple Books Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests

Add it to your “Want to read” on Goodreads here!

Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests Puzzle

There’s this site that allows for any picture to be transformed into a digital puzzle. For free. And you can play for free.

I used it for the cover of Assassins! Accidental Matchmakers (see that puzzle here) and Crushing It (see that puzzle here)

And now, here is the puzzle for Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests

Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests by Jen and Éric Desmarais is available now!

Indigo Books Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests
Archambault Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests
Amazon Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests
Rakuten Kobo Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests
Apple Books Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests

Add it to your “Want to read” on Goodreads here!

Week 27 – Inside Out

Pegasus has been excited about making a touch and feel book ever since Dragon made hers.

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!)

MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
papier macheWatch movieplan touch and feel bookFlexmake book

Summary of the week

Daily details:

Dance

Ballet and martial arts on alternate days

Music

Singing, listening to different pieces, learning piano, learning guitar

Crochet

On break

Basic Information

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.

Printing words

Download material

Counting objects/math-type activities

Practice counting objects and writing how many of each type – (in download material)

Addition and pattern – worksheet

Storytime

Activity

Paper maché emotion balls – link
Write touch and feel book
Put touch and feel book together – link

Next week: Rise of the Guardians

Week 26 – Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest Results

Pegasus liked this movie, although Hexus scared him, and he thought the gloopy Hexus was a different character from the human-like Hexus, so that was kinda funny to discover.

Dance

As per usual, I didn’t do anything specific for this.

Music

His scales are coming along nicely and he willingly practises both his scales and the pieces in the book.

Crochet

We haven’t started this yet.

Basic Information

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.

Printing words

We’re working on spacing and keeping the words on the bottom line. I’m going to go over where letters belong on the line during March Break, I think.

Counting objects/math-type activities

He still has no problems with counting these, and I feel like his numbers have improved. He didn’t need my help with drawing the numbers.

Math worksheets. He REALLY likes these. He did them both on Monday because he was so excited to do them once again.

Storytime

We read 1 of the French library books this week.

Activity

Learn about the 3 R’s – Pegasus is incredibly enthusiastic about reusing materials (should I be worried?) after learning about how much it helps the environment. We’ll see what he comes up with.

Learn about the Amazon rainforest – When I asked him after we watched a video about the rainforest what he’d learned, he said, “Rainforests are important for breathing and need to be protected.” I think he got the important parts.

Plant bean seeds indoors – We planted yellow and green beans. I took out the yellow beans first, which were white, and then Pegasus thought that the green beans might be blue. He was surprised when they were black. He carefully placed the seeds in the bags and helped me water them.

Tropes of “Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests”

@jendesmaraisauthor

“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! Universal book link: https://www.jeneric-designs.ca/books-and-timeline/universal-book-links/#MIWG #MonstersIncidentalWeddingGuests #JenDesmarais #ÉricDesmarais #authors #book #PressesRenaissancePress #pinkpiggy93 #artist #UrbanFantasy #RomanceBook #superheroes #BattleCouple #original #booktok

♬ Shadows Live for the Light (From the Book “Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests: The Gates of Westmeath, Book 2”) – Jen Desmarais
Every book utilizes tropes, even if it’s to subvert them, and Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests is no exception. This book covers: Urban Fantasy, No angst romance, Wedding, Detailed worldbuilding, Battle couple, superheroes, hidden magical world, and dual POV.

Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests by Jen and Éric Desmarais is available now!

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Archambault Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests
Amazon Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests
Rakuten Kobo Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests
Apple Books Monsters! Incidental Wedding Guests

Add it to your “Want to read” on Goodreads here!

Thoughts on the second semester of homeschool

This comes a couple weeks earlier than the end of second semester, but I have an empty week here due to March Break, and I don’t have one later, so here we are.

I am extremely pleased with how well homeschooling went this semester.

The worksheets were a great success, and I won’t be changing how they worked. Pegasus loves the math worksheets especially. I’m happy that removing the tracing printing and counting worksheets turned out so well. Pegasus was getting annoyed with them and I wasn’t enjoying the fight. This whole year is supposed to be fun!

I have also lowered the amount of cooking that we’re doing. He loves baking, but cooking is too boring. (And he’s scared of burning himself. We’ll have to figure out how to help him get over that fear.)

The biggest struggle we’ve got is convincing Pegasus to speak French. He seems convinced that he can’t do it, exactly like his sister. Although he knows individual words, he can’t seem to pick them out when people are talking to him, and he doesn’t try to meld them into sentences on his own either. We’re just continuing to soldier on.

He has taken quite well to reading, when I break words down into syllables. This is with both French and English reading.