I also get what you are saying and question myself all the time. I think of myself as play-based, but I do do weekly themes and we do activities that correlate with the themes and we have a weekly letter, number, shape, and color that I introduce to the kids and throughout the day, find things that have to do with them, such as having them find a blue ball, things like that. We do a calendar-which the kids love. We have circle time every day, but it's their choice to join or not. Most of them do anyways and if they don't, they are still listening. My ds doesn't like to sit in circle, but he always seems to know what we are talking about.

I don't do a "preschool curriculum" and try to only have kids infant to around 3/3.5 so I feel that play based learning is best for those ages, but then get myself confused about if what I'm doing is considered play based, and then decide it is and then get confused...lol

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