40 - TEACHING PHONICS

TEACHING PHONICS

13 ¾ x 21 inches

(Country School District 35, near Uehling, Nebraska)

Mother attended Midland Lutheran College to fulfill her dream of becoming a schoolteacher. This is the country school near her childhood farm where she taught. Mother’s college classes had stressed sight-reading, but when it didn’t work with her students, she reverted to the phonics system she had been taught as a child. Her students responded instantly to. The tracks in this painting symbolize different paths and life lessons, all intertwined. the old, logical phonics method. She discovered keeping things simple and at an intuitive level opened her students’ channels to learning.

Mother always figured out a wMother attended Midland Lutheran College to become a schoolteacher nearay to make things work. The tracks in this painting crisscross, representing different paths of reaching goals. Life lessons—intertwined and connected.