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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The videos on the Appletree website (link provided by a prior poster) talk a lot about "scores" and "lessons" and show things like having the kids try to make the letter Q out of Popsicle sticks and teaching from the front of the room with the teacher writing on an easel.  All of these are foreign concepts in a play-based preschool. [/quote]

You really don't know what you're talking about.  I don't know anything about Appletree, but I do know a lot about play-based preschools.  Play-based teach through play, and might do something similar.  I seem to recall one of my DCs making letter shapes with his body in our play-based preschool.  Play-based preschool kids do just fine.

There is a difference between non-educators trying to pass themselves off as play-based and the play-based schools that are NAEYC-accredited.  There are many schools that aren't NAEYC-accredited that are still excellent play-based schools (the accreditation is expensive for some schools).  However, if you don't know enough about early childhood education to be able to distinguish, either educate yourself or use the NAEYC accreditation as a signal.   [/quote]

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