Operation Head Start in United States. Children at Head Start Pre-school paint. Children play with dolls and toys. A girl colors a string. Children play with water and rabbit. Children play musical instruments and sing. A girl blows bubbles from a cup. Boys play. Children sit around table.
Operation Head Start in United States. Doctor asks questions of African American woman who is with her son for his medical examination at Head Start Pre-school. A doctor gives a vaccine shot to the African American boy and the child cries. A dentist examines a girl. Woman asks a girl whether she brushes her teeth regularly or not. She replies that she shares tooth brush with her sister. Woman tells her to stop sharing brush and brush after every meal. A girls eats at table. She uses knife for eating.
Operation Head Start in United States. Children sit at library in Head Start Pre-school. They read books. Some of the children are white and some are African American in the integrated school class. Volunteer teaches new words to children. She uses toys and charts to do so. She asks other words(synonyms) from children. A boy sits on chair and tells the story of the three little bears, children laugh.
Operation Head Start in United States. Volunteer demonstrates a rabbit to children at Head Start Pre-school. She asks a boy to hold it and tries to remove his suspicion and fear. Children hold rabbit. One teacher with two assistants in a class of 15 students. Teacher carries a boy and cuddles him. Volunteer plays guitar, sings in a class and children sing along. A boy stands aloof. He joins the group afterwards. Children build toy rail road and play in sandbox. They fight and teacher interrupts to resolve their fight. A boy rides cycle while another stands with teacher waiting for their turn. They stop the boy at 'Stop' board and exchange cycle. Two little girls play with dolls and shopping trolley. They wear hats and footwear bigger than their size. Children play role of doctor. Teacher helps a boy to listen to his own heartbeat with stethoscope. He uses it on his teacher too.
Operation Head Start in United States. Volunteers talk to families of deprived children at their home. African American woman with curlers in her hair holding a young child and meeting with a volunteer. Volunteers meeting with a family for counselling. Volunteers discuss about their problems at Head Start Center. Volunteers work in kitchen at the center and give food to the children. They play with the children in class and playground. A volunteer helps a little girl to wear clothes.
Operation Head Start in United States. Volunteers cross road with children and get on a bus. Teacher writes on a board in classroom. Replicas of fruits and vegetable lay on cabinet. Mothers of deprived children sit and listen to volunteers at Head Start Center. Volunteer asks a mother about her family members. She replies that her nine children live in a four-room house. Curtain at window. Exteriors of a building. Volunteer discusses the housing problem with a man and request to provide two apartments to this family. Interiors of the house of a rural woman with seven children and no job.