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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Appletree is actually a mix of styles then.  The classrooms are organized around centers as described in the play based description.  The kids have child directed center time in both the morning and  afternoon.  One of the centers is "teachers center " which is teacher directed learning for about 10 minutes per group.  Each child goes to teachers center when called.  The morning meeting and closing circle are also teacher directed.  The teacher directed portions focus on literacy, math skills and the unit (such as space, dinosaurs, our community, etc.). The centers are truly play based learning and change with each theme.  For example, during dinosaurs, the library will have picture books about dinosaurs, the dramatic play center will be pretending to be archeologists, the art center will be dinosaur projects, etc.  the structure of the day is very similar to most preschools, there is just more teacher directed learning of (particularly) literacy skills included.[/quote]

Great description!  Thanks.  My son loves telling me what he did in "dramatic play" each day.  When they were working on "DC and community" he and his friends pretended they were on the metro and looking at the Washington Monument.  Now they are doing "archeology and paleontology" (cracks me up that my 3 year old says that instead of dinosaurs and fossils) he plays at being a paleontologist (yep, he says that too!) at the Natural History Museum.  The dramatic play nook has a pictures of dinosaur skeletons on the wall and other toys and dinosaurs around to help facilitate play along those themes.  With other topics there are sometimes hats or dress up clothes.[/quote]

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