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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think people are misunderstanding what is meant by "play" in this context.  It doesn't mean they let the kids loose to just do whatever they want all day, like they do at recess.  It is used more to distinguish between a program that has you draw a page of "A"s, then circle all the capital and small As on a sheet, or circle pictures of items that start with the A sound, then move on to working through addition problems, etc.  it is not a new term---my 18 year old went to a play-based preschool back in her day.  She also loved doing workbooks at home, so I didn't need her to do more of that kind of thing at school.  The important thing is that the kids think they are "playing" all day at school, whereas in reality, the teachers are encouraging specific activities that have set goals of what the kids are supposed to learn from them.  So yes, there will be some activities they have to do that they don't particularly want to do, but there will be other activities with much more freedom.  At our preschool, there were dress up clothes in one area, blocks in another, puzzles in another, a water table and/or sand table, cars and trucks, an easel with paint, etc. They would have some blocks of time that they could choose to play with whatever they wanted (and had to learn to wait their turn if someone else was already using those items) and [b]other times they would do a teacher-directed activity like a craft project or story time.  Play-based doesn't mean all play, all the time.[[/b]/quote]

I think this is what most people have in mind when they think of the term play based, but for those schools that take the term seriously, there are no teacher directed activities at all (outside of music and maybe a story). [/quote]

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