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Colours of the rainbow

Unfortunately when your Mum is a Teacher, everyday is a school day!

I have been teaching H colours over the last 3 months (she is also learning at nursery too). I started with blue and green - only because on most journeys to nursery, I told her that the trees are green and the sky is blue. I soon relaised that if this was my main teaching staretgy we would soon run into trouble quite quickly as we don't pass many pink, orange or purple things! So, I thought it might be a better idea to teach her the colours of the rainbow.

I am a lover of mindmaps (I am a complete saddo; I actually bought and read the Tony Buzan Mindmapping book) and used this to come up with little ideas to help me teach colours. It involved books, songs, rhymes, pictures, clothes, food and crafts all relating to the colours of the rainbow. I think I was a bit adventurous though, so will come back to some of the ideas when she is bigger. I decided to have colour weeks. My first task was to paint a rainbow to hang in the playroom. I then found loads of little clipart pictures in all the rainbow colours.The next day I then taught her the 'rainbow song'. I began teaching her the colours in the order that they come in the rainbow. We started with Red Week.

The wee fun things we did are in the next posts
Posted by Pamcake at 21:06 Labels: Colours, rainbow




I'm a the luckiest girl in the world! I am a Mummy to 2 beautiful children and married to the best husband in the world. I have a loving family, truly wonderful friends, a job I love and we all have our health. What more could I ask for? We are a family of singers and dancers and can often be found having impromptu discos or ceilidhs in the hall, having races through the living room and having a 'family squeeze'. I am doing this blog as a way of recording all the things we get up to. My hope is, that when my wee ones get bigger, they can see all the fun things we did as a family. This is a little space for our memories to be stored.
