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RELATED EVENTS

ALUMNI REUNION
WSSB Alumni gathered recently for a reunion.
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THE PAPER BALL
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last year's event.
Curriculum

Each day begins with the Main Lesson, a two-hour period of concentrated activity focused around a particular subject of the curriculum. Movement, rhythmic activities, speech, singing, and recorder playing precede academic work.

New material is presented and received in a personal exchange between teacher and student rather than from a dry or abstract text book. Students work with the content of the lesson, creating their own books which contain written texts, original compositions, and artwork. Each main lesson subject is taught in a three or four week block of time.

The Main Lesson is followed by an outdoor recess after which there are two 40-minute classes in subjects such as Spanish, English or math skills, which require regular repetition. After lunch the children devote themselves to fine and practical arts, gardening, handwork, movement, and sports.

What is being studied in the main lesson is integrated into the curriculum of special subjects. Thus, the rhythm of the day starts with the work that requires intellectual focus, and ends with the more physical activities that engage the body and hands. In structuring the year, class teachers will order the main lessons so that the subjects unfold in a varied and orderly sequence.

First Grade

Pictorial and phonetic introduction to letters
Reading approached through writing
Arithmetic introduction to addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
Fairy tales, folk tales and nature stories

Second Grade

Reading
Writing
Multiplication tables
Numerical patterns and forms
Legends, fables and nature stories

Third Grade

Reading and Spelling
Simple descriptive writing and cursive writing
Grammar, punctuation and parts of speech
Time and Calendar work
Multiplication with higher numbers
Weight, measurement, money
Study of practical life - farming, housing, clothing
Hebrew stories as an introduction to history

Fourth Grade

Reading, spelling, writing, composition and grammar
Introduction to fractions
Study of animal kingdom
Local geography and map-making
Norse myths
Native American Studies

Fifth Grade

Reading, spelling, composition, grammar and letter writing
Poetry
Fractions, decimals, freehand geometry
Study of plant kingdom
Physical and economic geography of the United States
Ancient Civilizations through Greece

Sixth Grade

Letter writing, grammar and essay writing
Literature and library skills
Earth Science and astronomy
Business math, geometry, pre-algebra
Introduction to physics
Physical and economic geography of the Americas
Roman and medieval history

Seventh and Eight Grades

Grammar, creative writing, essays, poetry, drama, , and compositions
Algebra and geometry
Physics and chemistry
Introduction to chemistry
Biology - human physiology, anatomy and health
Cultural geography of Asia and Europe
History of the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery, to present
Cultural geography of Africa and Australia

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