Two and a Half Weeks of Red

Here are some pictures of our last couple of weeks learning the color red. (More on our photo website in the May 2008-Sam, 20 months album.) I had a conversation with a friend a few weeks ago that prompted us to start teaching Sam his colors and shapes. I took what I've been reading about in Young at Art, and I'm turning it into color lessons for Sam...nothing complicated, just pointing out everything red in our day-to-day activities, painting with red finger paints, coloring with red on white paper and with white on red paper. I also put a pocket chart on the wall in Sam's playroom with the word red on the top to put red things in. And so far so good. I think we've mastered red and are ready to move on to blue.