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[quote=Anonymous]I think you definitely need to look at the particular school.

That said, at my children's "play-based" preschool there are parts of the day set aside for free play, but also plenty of teacher-facilitated activities with learning goals. For example, in my 4 year old's class, they are no math worksheets, but at lunch time the children take turns counting out the cups and napkins and may play games throughout the day that involve counting and adding and running around putting themselves in groups of certain numbers. In the 2 and 3 year old classes, there was no specific phonics or letter instruction, but there was plenty of story reading, exposure to songs and language, and art projects that develop the fine motor skills they'll eventually need for writing.

My sons definitely come home talking about what they "learned" at school, but it's typically more along the lines of "today we did science and we got to rip of newspapers and make them all gooey and we're going to wait for them to dry and then it's going to be new paper and that's recycling!!!" than "today we learned that G makes the "gguh" sound" (although they are doing a bit of that in the pre-K class even though in name it's a "play-based" school).[/quote]

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