Note the April Fool's prank in the third piece of the bottom row — the errant K that forms the corner of one 3x3 grid.

“Up and down, up and down, like the first of March,” hints Miss April. The solution was to gather the highlighted letters from the map pieces along a M-shaped path. Letters within any given map piece were in jumbled order, however.

Here is the correctly assembled map.
Here are the letters filled in correctly.
Here is the "up and down, up and down, like the first of March" path of highlighted letters.
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