Toddler

Flash cards

I use what he is interested in. He loves cars so I’ve always described the car by I clouding the color and now he knows red, blue, green, yellow, black, orange. Similar technique can be used with fruit and veggies or things outside. A lot of learning is repetition. This a yellow car. The yellow car drives on the road. The yellow car is going fast. Numbers- we just practice counting and saying how many do you have - then counting it. He can count to 4 and understands one and two conceptually. Words - same thing as colors. Narrate and repeat things that would be redundant for an adult but not for them. Avoid it or that and try to use the word each time even if you just said it in the previous sentence. They are sponges and will absorb so much from this.

Better to learn organically from the environment. Counting and pointing out colours in every day life will stick faster than specific toys/books. My daughter figured out counting just by me always using my fingers to count and she wanting to mimic me. She knows up to 10 and has started actually pointing things out and counting them individually. She has just gotten the hang of all the colours too. She would repeatedly ask me what the colour of something was? I would always ask her and then answer it myself to model it for her. Just naming the colours in her toys and books worked for her. Don’t push, they learn better when they’re ready and their curiosity is sparked. Lots of repetition.

We for sure use the cars as colors because he has soooo many and their not the new cars their the old classic cars that actually have one solid color And he loves to read not the words exactly lol but the “monkey” and make monkey songs I figured maybe their was other ways to help. Thanks ladies