Does he like to color? My 3 yo does and when we do i'll say "can you pass me the red crayon please?" or "wow, that's a nice yellow crayon you have!"
That is true too Jackie. But, I personally don't think it matters which you say first. What I think the point would be, is to distinguish differences. The red apple. When hearing it that can sound like one word. As in redapple is the name of it. The apple is red, I think is the way we distinguish it as two separate things, the apple is red, not the redapple being one thing. So red is the house, would still break it up in to two parts. At least that is what I thinking.
Never thought of it like that, but I know what you mean. When I taught preschool, we had the kids talking about their "Happybirthday". As in, "I'm going to Chucky Cheese for my Happybirthday!" And it WAS just one word!
yes exactly. I can see in a child's mind, going on hearing alone how that can be. Where we know the words in their written parts, so we have that firmly embedded in our minds that it is two separate things. For years as a child, when ever we would go out of town, I would be looking for lemon trees.....because we were in the city lemons...hahaha (city limits!). Funny how children's minds work. Especially when they have to only relate words to what they know. haha
oh and just thought of something funny. We rarely eat at Mc Donald's. But, I have read to my children since birth. But, I only like older type books, the children's classics if you will. Like Old Mac Donald had a Farm, and such as that. So for the longest time, my DD thought that Mc D's was Old Mac Donald's and was some how related to the Old Mac Donald song/book! lol haha So when we would pass a Mc D's, she would always say there's Old Mac Donald's! lol haha People would give us very odd looks! haha
My middle son was very slow to learn the correct names for colors. Instead, he'd call the colors by their corresponding Thomas the Tank Engine character. Thomas color meant blue. Percy color meant green. James color meant red, and so on. I didn't worry about it, because I knew he could see the colors, and the fact that he could store details about each Thomas character in his brain meant that his memory was fine. I think knowing that "Thumper color" was actually orange was just not that important to him then.
Did you ever see the movie...Time after Time, maybe.... Anyway, it was about HG Wells chasing Jack the Ripper in his time machine, and ending up in modern-day San Francisco. Wells walks into a McDonald's for lunch, and does exactly what the guy ahead of him in line does. Then he ends of meeting this girl, who takes him somewhere fancy for dinner. He comments on how the food was much better than what he had for lunch. She asks where he went, and he replies, "Some Scottish place...." Anyway, it your comments reminded me of that!
I knew my 9 yo was colorblind, and I just did the test for my 4 year old. He can't see any of the shapes, or numbers!
