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Program For Seven-Year-Olds: In A Suburban School, In A City School; New Books For Children, Evelyn Beyer, Lorna C. Reed, Jessie Stanton, Ellen W. Steele

69 Bank Street

Volume 2 Number 3, December, 1935

School life and activities for seven-year-olds in the suburbs and the city.

Also includes publications relevant to children between six and ten years old obtainable at 69 Bank Street.

Extending The Environment: Before The Trip And After; The Trip; Eight Days, Lucy Sprague Mitchell, Elizabeth Whitney Walther, Elsa Euland

69 Bank Street

Volume 1, Number 8, May 1935

Detailed description of Bank Street's "Long Trip" to Morgantown, West Virginia and Washington, D. C. in 1935.

"The trip to West Virginia and Washington in which is described in this issue of 69 Bank Street, first by a student teacher and then by a staff member, was part of our year's work with the student teachers on "environment" - part of an attempt to get in first-hand contact with some of the major work patterns and their accompanying psychological patterns which characterize our current American culture" -- Lucy Sprague Mitchell

A Summer Program For Five Year Olds, Jessie Stanton

69 Bank Street

Volume 1, Number 7, April 1935

"The Institute of Euthenics at Vassar College runs a summer session of six weeks for parents and children. In this number Jessie Stanton, a director of the Harriet Johnson Nursery School, 69 Bank Street, New York, describes her work with five- and six-year-old children in the Institute School for Little Children."

The Contribution Of Adolescents To The Literature Of Escape, Mildred Gignoux Finke

69 Bank Street

Volume 1 Number 6, March 1935

"Presents the writing of adolescents in terms of the emotional release which it has afforded children."

The Taking And Use Of Records, Louise P. Woodcock

69 Bank Street

Volume 1 Number 5, February, 1935

Describes the record taking process and the types of observational records the teachers at the Harriet Johnson Nursery School were taking. Includes excerpts of observations.

Play Making In The School Group; The Use Of Pantomime In Developing Acting Techniques, Ellen W. Steele, Charlotte Perry

69 Bank Street

Volume 1 Number 4, January 1935

"Play making in the school group" describes the kind of play that grows through the school experience (in this case, a field trip) and takes form in the school life."

"The use of pantomime in developing acting techniques" describes the teacher's first steps in guiding young children beyond pretend play toward dramatic form through the use of pantomime."