Curriculum Areas
This curriculum area supports fine motor skills and strengthening the muscles of the hand.
What is Practical Life?
What sound does ‘a’ make?
What is ah?
What are the four building blocks of the bank system in our math curriculum that are sometimes called the golden bead decimal system but may also be made from wooden cubes?
What is unit, ten bar, hundred square and thousand cube.
Number of floors at the 309 West 92nd building.
What is 6?
A wel-known motto of Maria Montessori about how to teach in the classroom is, "Follow the _______"
What is child?
This curriculum area includes pre-math activities, including grading, sorting and also involves activities with a distinct purpose and method to its use to develop either a specific or combination of the child sense.
What is the Sensorial area?
Can you name one pre-literacy skill?
What is Rhyming, Sequencing, Categorizing, etc.?
This work in the math area clarifies the idea that the symbols represent a certain quantity of separate objects and introduces the concept of zero and its symbol by using wooden sticks and a separated tray.
What are the spindle boxes?
You will hear from this person if your child's medical forms are expired.
Who is Desiree Care?
What do many children call Friday due to a special treat at lunch?
What is "smoothie day".
This curriculum area includes activities which promote a child’s ability to create imaginative play scenarios and promote creativity through dramatic play.
What is the Language curriculum?
The acronym CVC stands for this format of words.
What is consonant-vowel-consonant?
The term for being able to determine quantity without counting.
What is subitizing?
The year WSMS was established.
What is 1963?
What language may be used when a child runs in the classroom?
What is "please use your walking feet."
The curriculum area that incorporates science, geography, peace, and cultures of the world.
What is the Cultural area?
These are the four domains of language.
What is expressive, receptive, reading and writing?
The first goal in teaching arithmetic.
What is counting 1-10?
Traditionally, a child's favorite day of the month.
What is their host day?
Teachers may say this in group when people are talking over one another.
What is "Our words are bumping."
The subject areas which we call "sisters."
What is Sensorial (pre-math) and Math?
The direct correspondence between symbols and sounds.
What is phonetics?
This mathematical system of sets can be seen throughout both our sensorial and mathematics curriculum, and often carries over into other areas as well.
What is the base ten system?
The email address you use to inform the front desk regarding sickness and absences of your child.
What is frontdesk@wsmsnyc.org
Statement we use when there is something important to say.
What is "I have a message!?"