WW & 1st Year Humanities Foundations 2025-2026

To print a list of all your VOCABULARY to date, go to the 1st Year Vocabulary page OR play to study your words on Quizlet!

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.

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 2000-2023 HERE.

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

“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.

Pieces now in play:
(updated 9/18/25)

Danielle
Revisions = 5/6
Edits = 0/4

Pictures with words: Beach Day

Pink poetry: Pictures with words; Poem of Feeling; General to Specific; The Right Words

Elly
Revisions = 4/6
Edits = 0/4

poem of feeling (contest): Fall

Fibonacci: Bees
Pink poetry: Poem of Feeling; General to Specific; The Right Words

Aveer
Revisions = 3/6
Edits = 0/4

1st Person Narrative: Soccer

Fibonacci: Sunflowers, Rabbits, Bees
Pink poetry: Poem of Feeling; General to Specific; The Right Words

Peter
Revisions = 4/6
Edits = 0/4

poem of feeling: Winter

Fibonacci: Bees
Pink poetry: Poem of Feeling; General to Specific; The Right Words

Nikita
Revisions = 4/6
Edits = 0/4

1st Person Narrative: Hockey

Pink poetry: Pictures with words; Poem of Feeling; General to Specific; The Right Words