Colour affects your learning by the way your brain functions and uses colour to develop pattern recognition, memory and absorbing new information. RED – Powerful and attention-grabbing, the colour red creates alertness and excitement. It encourages creativity and can also increase appetite.
As any rainbow will demonstrate, black isn't on the visible spectrum of color. Black is the absence of light. Unlike white and other hues, pure black can exist in nature without any light at all. Some consider white to be a color, because white light comprises all hues on the visible light spectrum.
Color plays a vitally important role in the world in which we live. Color can sway thinking, change actions, and cause reactions. It can irritate or soothe your eyes, raise your blood pressure or suppress your appetite. As a powerful form of communication, color is irreplaceable.
Early Symptoms
- using the wrong colours for an object – e.g. purple leaves on trees, particularly using dark colours inappropriately.
- low attention span when colouring in work sheets.
- denial of colour issues.
- problems in identifying red or green colour pencils or any colour pencil with red or green in its composition. (
Complex processing of information: A gifted child is able to perceive relationships, comprehend implications, and process a large amount of information. Ability to think abstractly: The child can often move from concrete to symbolic representation very comfortably and at an earlier age than most children.
Your child's ability to recognize different colors heats up at around 18 months, the same time he begins to notice similarities and differences in shape, size, and texture. But it will be a while longer before he's able to name the colors; most children can name at least one color by age 3.
Blue is best used for learning situations which are challenging. Blue paper, blue ink, or blue highlighting can be used to help improve reading comprehension too. Blue in general it seems is a relaxing and calming color, but lighter shades will seem more 'friendly' while darker ones seem a little more somber.
Three Primary Colors (Ps): Red, Yellow, Blue. Three Secondary Colors (S'): Orange, Green, Violet. Six Tertiary Colors (Ts): Red-Orange, Yellow-Orange, Yellow-Green, Blue-Green, Blue-Violet, Red-Violet, which are formed by mixing a primary with a secondary.
How can you teach your toddler to talk?
- Read together.
- Use sign language.
- Use language whenever possible.
- Refrain from baby talk.
- Name items.
- Expand on their responses.
- Give your child choices.
- Limit screen time.
By age 2: Kids start recognizing some letters and can sing or say aloud the “ABC” song. By age 3: Kids may recognize about half the letters in the alphabet and start to connect letters to their sounds. (Like s makes the /s/ sound.) By age 4: Kids often know all the letters of the alphabet and their correct order.
Five-year-olds are transitioning into elementary school mathematics. At this age, a child can often count up to twenty and beyond, and they'll start to apply this knowledge every week at school.
The naming of 2 body parts is normal for an 18 month old. Between 18 and 30 months the toddler should learn to identify 6 out of 8 body parts.
Typically, by the age of three, children should be able to recite the alphabet. However, every child is different. Some toddlers may learn in their twos, and others might not pick it up until the late threes. Children generally learn how to recite the alphabet through repetition.
Talk with your toddler: naming and talking about everyday things – body parts, toys and household items like spoons or chairs – helps develop language skills. At this age, you can teach your toddler that a 'chair' can be a 'big chair', 'red chair' or even a 'big red chair'.
There are many different levels to teaching and learning pattern skills, here's the developmental sequence for teaching patterning skills to your Preschool or Pre-K students.
- Stage 1: Recognize a pattern.
- Stage 2: Describe a pattern.
- Stage 3: Copy a pattern.
- Stage 4: Extend a pattern.
- Stage 5: Create a pattern.
I recommend 3 as a great age to start teaching numbers, but just like letters, there is no pressure to learn them all fast. Your child should be able to count up to 20 and identify numbers 1-10 before kindergarten.
Tertiary Colors: Mix each primary color with the secondary color next to it to create the tertiary colors, which are: blue-green, yellow-green, yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet, and blue-violet. Talk about the differences in these colors. Make a Color Wheel with all 12 of the colors you've created.
If white is added, the lighter version of the color is called a tint of the color. On the other hand, if black is added the, darker version of the color is called a shade of the color.
