The colours of the rainbow
TSCD: Okay, sit down nicely on this chair
Stardust: I sit down.
TSCD: You can have this to play with...(jams a finger puppet on Stardust's thumb)
Stardust: Fish!
TSCD: Yes, it's a fish. What colour is it?
Stardust: (scrutinises fish) Green. Green fish.
TSCD: Um, no. It's a pink and orange fish.
Stardust: Green fish.
TSCD: No, it's a pink and orange fish.
Stardust: Pink
TSCD: And?
Stardust: Or....
TSCD: Pink and orange
Stardust: N'orange
TSCD: That's right! (starts singing)
I'm a pink and orange fish
I'm swimming in the sea
I'm a pink and orange fish
Just take a look at me
I'm a pink and orange fish and
I'm happy just to beeeeeeee
A pink and orange fish who is
Swimming in the sea!!
Stardust: (chimes in) The sea!!!
TSCD: Good! (second verse!)
I'm a pink and orange fish
Come and play with me
I'm a pink and orange fish
Just look and you will see
A pink and orange fish
Happy as can beeeeeeee
To be so pink and so orange
And so fishy in the sea!!!
Stardust: (chimes in) The sea!!!
TSCD: Good! So, what colour is the fish?
Stardust: Green.
(On a more serious note, Stardust is probably colour blind. Red-green colour blindness runs in the family and I am probably a carrier of the gene. I have problems with colours myself, but probably at a different level from true colour-blindness. I can see red and green but I occasionally have difficulty differentiating shades of brown from shades of dark red. I have noticed that Stardust almost always identifys the colour green incorrectly but at his age it is too early to tell. When he's older, I will probably have to get him formally tested.)
Stardust: I sit down.
TSCD: You can have this to play with...(jams a finger puppet on Stardust's thumb)
Stardust: Fish!
TSCD: Yes, it's a fish. What colour is it?
Stardust: (scrutinises fish) Green. Green fish.
TSCD: Um, no. It's a pink and orange fish.
Stardust: Green fish.
TSCD: No, it's a pink and orange fish.
Stardust: Pink
TSCD: And?
Stardust: Or....
TSCD: Pink and orange
Stardust: N'orange
TSCD: That's right! (starts singing)
I'm a pink and orange fish
I'm swimming in the sea
I'm a pink and orange fish
Just take a look at me
I'm a pink and orange fish and
I'm happy just to beeeeeeee
A pink and orange fish who is
Swimming in the sea!!
Stardust: (chimes in) The sea!!!
TSCD: Good! (second verse!)
I'm a pink and orange fish
Come and play with me
I'm a pink and orange fish
Just look and you will see
A pink and orange fish
Happy as can beeeeeeee
To be so pink and so orange
And so fishy in the sea!!!
Stardust: (chimes in) The sea!!!
TSCD: Good! So, what colour is the fish?
Stardust: Green.
(On a more serious note, Stardust is probably colour blind. Red-green colour blindness runs in the family and I am probably a carrier of the gene. I have problems with colours myself, but probably at a different level from true colour-blindness. I can see red and green but I occasionally have difficulty differentiating shades of brown from shades of dark red. I have noticed that Stardust almost always identifys the colour green incorrectly but at his age it is too early to tell. When he's older, I will probably have to get him formally tested.)
Labels: Stardust
posted by tscd at 10:28 pm
2 Comments:
That is so cute!!!
Did you make that song up by yourself or is it a real one?
At what age would you get him tested for color differentiating?
Ms Ellisa: yes, I made it up. I do that to help him remember new things (although it didn't seem to work this time).
I'll probably formally test him when he's around 3 or 4 and can express himself more fluently.
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