Gemma is the third child I have taught their colors*. Each and every time I have worked on colors with a child I am blown away by the complexity of our world. There are not just 3-5 simple colors in our world. No. There are hundreds of colors and a multitude of variation. Is that shirt blue? Or green? Buses are usually portrayed as yellow, the one in this book appears orange. What color is it? The overlap and sheer volume of possibilities is staggering. Especially when you are trying to break it down and explain it to a one year old.
*I use the word taught here loosely as I'm not sure that I did much. It seems months go by of prompting, instructing, and standing on my head with no response. Then boom. Without warning in the course of a day, the child knows all the colors. Did I assist? Yes. Did they learn it because of me? No. This was true with all 3 of the kids.
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