Child Observations Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GROUP IV. Ages between 5 and 6. 451. Frank. Age, 5 years. Prank carried an empty milk-can up the street, crying, "Two quart butter." 452. Grace. Age, about 5 years. I used to take a book of any kind, set it up in the window, draw my chair to the window, and play on the window-sill as on a piano. I thought I must roll my body and head around, and make my arms go up and down, because I had seen people play who made a great fuss over it. I usually sang at the top of my voice all the time I was playing. 453. Unknown. Age, about 5 or 6 years. This is what I saw three boys do. The largest boy had a spirally twisted wire, to each end of which was tied a brick. He held one brick in his left hand still, and the other brick he twisted round and round the first. He hummed all the time he did this. The other boys had on red and white caps. One had a piece of an old suspender hanging down from under his coat at the back. The suspender was a little turned up at the end. The other had a piece of an iron hoop hanging in the same way. The "player" would grind a few minutes, and the " monkeys " would hop about and walk on their hands and feet. When the music stopped they would try to climb up the side of the house, holding out their caps. Some children in the window above dropped something into the caps. An organ-grinder and monkey had been about the day before. 454. Several Boys. Age, about 5 years. On Decoration Day I saw four boys marching about the town to the music of a harmonica played by one of them, and drawing a small girl in a wagon. Strips of white cloth had been sewed on their trousers, and they wore newspaper caps well fringed. 455. Willie. Age, 5 years. When Willie saw me after his first day at school, he said, " We have to do awful hard things at school. The teacher...Read More