On Realia in Teaching / myLot

September 7, 2025 11:36pm CST

Yesterday, we had our lesson on colors. we started with ten basic colors for our pre-semester. It is just a jumpstart for them to be able to familiarize with the ten basic colors. I employed realia so that can they easily remember the colors and that they can associate colors easily when they see them in reality. I used different colored pens an I had them do an activity one by one to check how they can easily remember the colors. There was a little bit of translation in their language at some point. It can be of help at times. What are your thoughts? How did you learn colors for the first time?

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The Horse

@TheHorse (230185)

• Walnut Creek, California

8 Sep

I had no idea there were ten basic colors.

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Neil

@Neil43 (4139)

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8 Sep

Yup. Usually taught first before going to dividing the groups of colors according which one is primary, secondary, and so on. It is included in the first book of my series.

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LindaOH

@LindaOHio (200165)

• United States

8 Sep

I don't remember how I learned colors. I'm assuming my mother taught me.

May2k8

@May2k8 (18797)

• Indonesia

8 Sep

Initially, I only remember being taught 4 colors, namely red, yellow, green and blue.

@DaddyEvil (159161)

• United States

8 Sep

In the US, we're taught that there are three primary colors; red, yellow and blue. All other colors are mixtures of those three basic colors.

Anindita Sengupta

@aninditasen (17651)

• Raurkela, India

8 Sep

Our teachers just showed us colour strips to teach us colours.

Arunima Singh

@arunima25 (92294)

• Bangalore, India

8 Sep

Ten basic colours? What are those? Being a teacher, you keep coming up with different creative ways to make learning fun. That's so nice thing about being an educator.

Judy Story

@jstory07 (145706)

• Roseburg, Oregon

8 Sep

Learning colors and working with them sounds like something that would be fun.