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[quote=Anonymous]I'm considering sending my 2-year-old to a day care with play-based learning. I've read various claims that play-based learning is better in the long run, but the only two actual scientific studies I could find about this said there's no conclusive evidence to find that it has any effect either positive or negative.

Does anyone here have any experience with this? Are they literally just playing all day and learning things as a bi-product? Are there no teacher-initiated lessons? Do kids experiencing play-based learning come home and talk about what they learned in school? Or does it not work that way? Is it more of a "learning how to learn" for later life, or learning facts, counting, math, etc?

Does a teacher ever say, "Okay everyone gather around for story time" or "math time" or "phonics time" and stuff like that? Or does that not exist in this kind of school?

Any help here would be appreciated. Thanks.

(And yes, I know he's only 2 and should be playing. I'm not arguing against this, just trying to get a better understanding.)[/quote]

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