Deborah replied: Aw, thanks Deb! } – Phonics Guide To CNR
I am frequently working on multiple projects at one time. I have no idea why I do this. I mean it’s not like I don’t already have enough on my plate with my nine eight children.
Wow, do I miss Anna.
For example, right now I should be sewing a new dress design for the JMJ site. I have the pattern cut out and all ready to go but I was a little side-tracked today. Forgive me Lady Seamstress! It’s coming! Oh, I and guess that goes to the site browsers as well who are waiting. Mea culpa!
Instead I was clearing out my virtual school folder in my documents when I came across a phonics book I was working on last year. To my surprise, I had actually finished it but then did nothing with it. So I’ve decided to make it available to everyone and anyone.
The book is called, “Phonics Guide to Catholic National Reader,” and it’s pretty much exactly what its title says. The CNR Primer and Book I are taught through the whole word method. Many parents, and rightly so, were not happy with this book because it didn’t take the phonics approach. I was included with this group.
So I decided to not throw the baby out with the bathwater, (yes, another reference from my mother) and write a guide to introduce the phonics before each chapter. You will see on the example pages below that after each lesson or two, there is a reference to the chapter number in the CNR. My lessons in the guide follow the lessons in the CNR book to make it easy to follow.
Sample 1 – Primer
Sample 2 – Book One
And much to the chagrin of my daughter, I’m not selling this book but rather making it available for free via email in PDF format for anyone interested. This does NOT mean its public domain. It is copyrighted material. And here I go with the official mumbo-jumbo . . .
I do not give permission for anyone to do the following to this book: sell, reproduce, alter, copy, transfer in any form by any means or store in a retrieval system. And I never will. Amen.
The book is made up of sixty-four pages (260 KB) in PDF format. If you would like a free copy, email me at books@randazzofamily.com with “Phonics Guide to The CNR” in your subject line and I’ll have it on its way!
Does It Not
Does it not look like the ocean is on the ceiling in my backyard?
Just out of the blue today on the way home from the farm . . .
Dominican: Mama, is Jesus is a boy?
Me: Yes, Dominican. Jesus is a boy.
Dominican: And is Mary is a girl?
Me: Yes, she is a girl.
Dominican: [pause] Oh.
These Catechism lessons are sooooo paying off.
This is what it really looked like. But since it looked more like the red tide hit the ocean, I preferred the black and white instead.
Yes, two totally different topics at the same time but my mother always tells me that women think with both sides of their brain at the same time so I’m going to guess that the majority of you were totally keeping up with me here.
She Shares His Day
I’m feeling a little picturesque tonight. Just wanted to give you heads up in case you were wondering what happened to my more solemn demeanor. Sorry, it happens. When carrying another human being alongside me for twenty-two months (yes, 22!) I tend to get into moods. Imagine that.
So today is her birthday. The one who is actually paying attention to the camera. She’s seven. Because if the other one was seven, the Guinness book people might be knocking at my door any day now. Strange to name a record-holding book the same name as a brand of beer.
Ah! Looked it up just now. You knew I would. Turns out the founder of the record-holding organization was first the managing director of the brewery. It all started over a shooting party. So figures. It’s exactly how I imagined it started. Shooting. Uh-huh.
Why oh why do I branch? Focus.
Back to birthday girl. She shares her day with Saint Valentine. How cool is that?!
Her day:
1) Panera in the AM.
2) Birthday cake, birthday song and candle (yes, one) at noon.
3) Panera in the PM.
4) Pink heart cookie, monkey song and candle (yes, STILL ONE) later in the PM.
By the way, she missed blowing out the one candle on both first tries so by the second go-around, her baby sister blew it out for her. And you thought one candle would be too easy.
5) And then there was this . . .
Um, her big sister wrapped around her and a walker. Or, er, uh, a skater? Well, hey, if it works. Right? Right???
This one tagged along on the PM Panera trip and from her expression was most unimpressed.
No matter. As long as when she returned she was enamored by the lady holding her sans no make-up, no sleep in four months and gaining weight at record-breaking speed . . . then we’re golden!
Happy Saint Valentine’s Day everyone!
Thank you GQ ♥