How Children Interact

  During my observation the teacher had the kids paint. Most of them shared all of the supplies but worked on their own, there were two kids though who were chatting throughout the whole activity, they got along very well, it was interesting to me to watch them have a conversation about what it was they were doing. One of the little boys had more to say than the other. He seemed to be very proud of himself, I say this because as he painted he said then standing up smiling, "look at my picture, I've never seen that one!" He knows all of his colors already, every time he would pick a different color he would say the name of it, he was then unconsciously helping the other boy practice saying the right colors who kept saying the wrong colors at first and made it fun for him.
  When the kids were allowed to play any activity in/outdoors, two girls and one boy stayed in the "science center" area, one of the little girls was the one to tell the others what to do. She told them each that she would say who's turn it was to be able to look at the walking stick, surprisingly, the other two children waited their turn until she said it was OK for them to look.
  Based on my observations, if I had to plan activities out  for these kids I would definitely use paint again in a similar project since they have fun with it and they are learning at the same time. Songs tend to stick to a child in pre-k, I would look up different songs that have the names on the colors and sing it with them as they do the project. Other than paint, so that all of the kids could practice their colors I would have them play with blocks that have different colors.