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<p style="text-align: center">Welcome to our web blog for preschool room 413. We hope you enjoy learning about what we're doing each week. Please check out our "blogroll" to the right and our special pages, including our Handbook. Like all the preschools in Chicago Public Schools, our program is <span><span><strong><em>play-based</em> </strong> which means we understand that children learn best when they are emotionally engaged in their learning and have some control over what they do and learn. We do projects, use scientific inquiry to discover how our world works, read all kinds of books including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, magazines, and books of our own creation.  We learn through doing art, music, dance. We learn about all kinds of math, including counting, general number sense, measurement, geometry, even foundations of algebra! Best of all, we learn about ourselves and each other. We learn about community, starting with our own. We learn to take risks by trying new things and finding out that it's OK to make mistakes. We learn to take care of ourselves, each other and our classroom.
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