l’alphabet

Hynes UNO Kindergarten, Language Arts & Visual Arts, Ms. Brigid/Madame Berthelot

Madame Berthelot’s kindergarten class spent the semester gaining familiarity with the relationship between sounds, letters, and the everyday things that they represent - as well as with drawing letters themselves. They also had the added challenge of doing all this in French! We created a multi-week project that helped students meet the academic objective of learning letters and their sounds, while also learning to use collage and drawing to create images that correspond with those sounds.

First, each student was assigned a letter. We spent a day exploring the sounds that each letter makes, and each student came up with a thing or creature that corresponded with their letter — “I” and “igloo,” or “E” and “elephanté,” for example. They used lines and drawing to create an image of that object.

Next, students used collage to create a large card of their individual letter. They created the shape of the letter using glue and scraps of paper, and became familiar with the routine of using a glue stick.

The following class, students returned to their original drawings and added them to their individual letter cards.

Over the course of a few classes, Madame Berthelot and I worked together to record each student speaking the sound of their assigned letter, as well as the word that they created an image of. I edited these together into a video, and we were able to watch it together and celebrate our young artists’ collaborative alphabet. See the video here. Bravo, la classe de Madame Berthelot!