Football To Continue!

Vuvuzelas are silent and doors to stadiums, where Football World Cup happened, are closed, but we have just opened for us a wonderful toy – a BALL! Maria is fan of it, all the time she brings a ball for me to throw it high in the sky or in her hands. We are also improvising football play by trying to push ball forward shouting GOAL!!!

Studying Colours

Uffff, that’s quite uneasy task…We started studying colors about 1.5 month ago but the results are seen just now and not always 100% correct. I recently found out the reason: children start to see clear differences between colours when they are older than 1.5 years. Maria is just 1y.2m.o. I guess, we will postpone a bit our colourful life.

But I will shortly tell you how we proceeded with colours.

1. We had two triangles: yellow and green. I explained that one is yellow, other is green and asked to give me yellow, then green. When this task was done moreless successfully, we increased number of colours to 4 basic ones: blue, yellow, green and red.

2. The game was as follows: one needed to find in our flat as many blue-coloured things as possible. Of course, we did it together, but Mary liked the game.

3. On the piece of cloth (to save space compared to paper) circles were drawn and coloured in 4 basic colours. So, I asked Mary to step in yellow, blue… etc., first doing it together. Then, we went through our toys and sorted them by colours, putting them on the according circle.

4. When being outside, I pointed out the things, which were of the colours she knows: Look! Here is a RED car coming!... Though, this is rather passive learning, anyway it should develop Maria’s understanding of the colours.