Math Workshop 2023-2024

Class Sense Palette (Edible Aquifers on 2.26.24)

Touch: cold; wet; squishy; rough; compacted
Smell: unpleasant; water park; pee
Taste: delicious; bubbly; flavor; hard; sweet; bitter
Sound: silent; crunchy
Sight: pink; brown; blue; purple; layers

Class Diamante:

Layers
thick, wet
melting, compounding, dissolving
rocks, water, perfect, well
helping, freezing, bubbling
nature, wild
Aquifer

Please have your students read books from the 4th-6th Grade Reading List during the year.

Remember that these lists are not an indication of reading level, but are created to give students a background for their upcoming years of study at the NFS. Please do NOT have children read books from lists that are in their reading level, but above their NFS class level.

“Teaching is mostly listening, and learning is mostly telling.”

                                                            -- Deborah Meier, 1995

Cinquain
by Mary Parker (2006)

North Fork:
World History —
Continuously writing poems.
We learn without realizing:
Achievements.

Math Students

Lila
Harper
Lucas
Sebastian
Hazel

Fibonacci Links to explore:

Numbers in Nature reveals the secrets of the Fibonacci sequence in an exhibit from the Annenberg/CPB video.

Dr. Ron Knott's website on Fibonacci Numbers and the Golden Section in Nature is a great place to explore the Fibonacci sequence. His site allows you to see many of the ideas we discuss in WW and continue to explore in the 1st Year Program.

See pieces written by WW students (2nd-6th graders) from 2000-2022 HERE.

See pieces written by 1st Year classes (6th & 7th graders) from 2001-2020 HERE.