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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 follow the teaching principles mapped out by the <em><span class="yshortcuts">National Association for the Education of Young Children</span> </em> and their roadmap, <em><span class="yshortcuts">Developmentally Appropriate Practice</span> </em> . This includes some direct instruction to make sure that students are getting the social and academic skills they will need to be successful in all their school years.
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