Yellow, Yellow, Everywhere

This week is the last week that I will be implementing my Action Research in the classroom. The color of the week this week is yellow. The first few days this week have not started off to a good start, but it was to be expected. Since the student I work with has Autism, I anticipated this being a hard week for him after being home from school all last week for the holiday. On Monday, the student was very agitated and would not focus at all when we attempted to explore through the color i.d boxes. On Tuesday, we worked on a computer game in which the child began on a good start, but soon became unfocused and wanted no part of the game. With that said, he can identify that a banana is yellow, but needs to be prompted to say the color "yellow". I usually prompt him with the beginning sounds. I also noticed that when asked what color a yellow object is, the student would respond with "banana" as the color. Although he was unable to state the word "yellow", I was happy that he was able to identify the color being the same color as a banana. I feel that it is at least important for him to be able to identify the color with the surrounding world.