OBJECTIVES

 To say words, sentences, texts, related to a familiar theme.
 To adapt the writing of those words, sentences, texts, to the constraints of the project’s specifications.

MATERIALS

 « Script » and capital letters cut out of a collection of pictures taken from magazines illustrating the theme of plants.
 The first name by which the children are called
 Dried clovers and daisies
 White paper sheets, pastels and green ink
 Dried leaves, pieces of natural raffia and green felt-tip pens for all supports
 Green paper strips (50 cm x 3 cm), green felt-tip pens

REFERENCES

Works by Sandrine Morsillo

PROCEDURES

Search for the words, sentences or texts that can be written on the theme of plants. Make the children justify their choices.

The children’s suggestions :

 To write one’s first name in order to show one’s taking part in the work’s production.
 To write a poem learnt on the theme of the “garden".
 To produce a sentence about life in a garden.
 List the various devices of plastic written expression.
 Reconstituting words using letters cut out of magazines
 Writing in capital letters for younger children and in cursive for elder ones, using a scripting tool.
 Define various projects.

1) (for 3-year-olds) : to reconstitute one’s first name using letter-labels cut out of magazines about the garden.

2) (for 4-year-olds) : to write one’s first name in block letters

 either on a tree leaf, that will later be hung up on a board ;

 or on a paper sheet, with green pastel that will later be covered with ink.

3 ) (for 5-year-olds) : to write one’s first name in cursive writing on a tree leaf.

The children carry out the project they have suggested individually.

4) : to choose a poem that will be reconstituted from labels cut out of magazines, which will be stuck to a background evoking the word “meadow".

5 ) : To produce a sentence on the general theme of the « garden ». To write it on a green paper strip in capital letters or in cursive writing, according to the children’s capacities.

To search for possibilities of staging it, associating it with the colour green.

To introduce copies of works, such as the copybook pages painted by Sandrine Morsillo, in which the plastic and the verbal codes are articulated.

Draw parallels with the children’s productions.

ASSESSMENT

To make the children become aware of the fact that they can

 Use letters, words, sentences or texts as plastic elements in a composition.

 Produce an individual plastic composition where the text and the picture are linked through their meaning.

Blandine Tissier Alsace Nursery School Saint Germain -en- Laye Yvelines France