Petals Childish journal was a handwritten production, made in single sheets of paper, held by the students of the primary school Coração de Jesus, a religious institution for girls in Florianópolis/SC and who's exemplary, between 1946 and 1952, were kept in a personal collection. This study focused on the analysis of the articles and comments that expressed precepts conveyed by the platoon of health, a complementary association of the school, legitimized by law, and whose purpose was to assist in the creation and maintenance of hygienic principles as part of the school culture of the period. The article connects to the search field of the history of education and education's history, both understood as writing discursive and school productions of a determined time and place that, as much by the stand in with it is presented to reading, as much as by the hygienist and civic precepts it laid in circulation, allow you to think of the importance of this material in the construction of a memory for the recognition of different practices, customs, rituals, actions that were part of the school ambient of the period.
childish journal; platoon of health; hygiene and school culture