Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Know Your Colors

This morning, Brianna and I went to Cardio Kids, a kids indoor gym, with our play group. Bree had such a blast running around and doing all the activities. At one point the teachers were talking about colors. They had big stars that were different colors and they were teaching the kids the names for the colors in both English and Hawaiian. But before that they were asking, "What is this color?" for each one. Having a colors book at home and with me talking to her about colors a lot lately, Brianna is getting pretty good at naming colors. She uses them fairly frequently in her speech and more often than not these days, the color she's saying is actually the color of the item she's talking about. But, I was still surprised (but pleasantly so!) when today she got every color right except purple, which she thought was blue. But she correctly named, red, blue, yellow, orange, and green, which made me feel pretty good! The funny part was when they were telling the kids that the Hawaiian name for purple is poonee (ok that's a totally phonetic spelling, I have no idea what the correct spelling is) at which point Brianna blew through her lips and made her pony noise!

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