 O owl
R rabbit |
First Graders Create the Living Alphabet The pictures that first graders have created are inspired by Famke Zonnefeld’s book “The Living Alphabet” and the drawings of local artist, Kristin Harvey. Here, the letters are introduced and re-introduced as lively “characters” that bridge from the pictures consciousness of childhood to geometric symbols conveying various sounds. Originally letters were pictorial. Prior to becoming fixed symbols for specific sounds, people used pictograms. Ideograms designated aspects of the phenomenal world and corresponding attributes. The letters that are joyfully produced provide a transition between the picture script of nature, the imagination, and the abstract symbols yo the alphabet that children are eager to learn.
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