3V1013.2

3V1013.02 Past tenses: self-correction after pause (10/29/80) Remarking on some item of food, Peggy noted there was none, “I eat (short pause) …ate it.” 11/11: “I finded it.”

3V1013.1

3V1013.01 One to one correspondence (10/29/80) I found Peggy with the Train book, looking at a diagram of a locomotive. She was pointing to the numbers (denoting parts that were described below) and reciting random letters of the alphabet, one to each number: “B…E…K…D…” when I approached to see what she was doing, she pointed …

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3V1011.1

3V1011.01 Jumping Jacks and Counting (10/27/80) Peggy sometimes goes to gymnastics make up classes with Miriam. She has seen the girls do jumping jacks and counting them. Whenever she feels full of energy, Peggy is as likely to break into jumping jacks as any other activity. Usually Peggy counts, but with the numbers 16 and …

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3V1010.3

3V1010.03 Reading “good grief” in Peanuts book (10/26/80) Peggy asked me to read a Peanuts book to her. I did so. She was looking for instances of “Good Grief !” and would point to panels having a character with the appropriate expression and ask “Good Grief ” She would also point to the speech balloons …

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3V1010.2

3V1010.02 Singing (10/26/80) Peggy’s favorite song is “The fox went out on a chilly night.” This is her first song, (in the sense of having parts well enough known for her to begin singing). Her original version interleaved two lines, “The fox went out on a chilly night” and “town-o, town-o…(repeated a variable number of …

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