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!
HF Zoom code: 828 0533 4144 passcode: 220840
WW Zoom code: 839 4917 4596 passcode: 711714
Elly
by Elly Toebe
(5th grade)
Dirty blonde hair like a river:
framing ocean-deep
eyes that view the world from a messy --
yet kind -- point of view. Stained
white teeth disguise themselves
as a crooked smile: kind, funny,
and adventurous. Thoughts
of how other people know me
dwell in my head, yet never
take over. "Never give up,"
says my dad: a saying that will
get me through this
imperfect world.
Tournament
by Nikita Davydov
(3rd grade)
I'm going to my hockey tournament in Moscow tomorrow! I feel cheerful, jolly, joyful, overjoyed, and happy!!! We pack up and get ready to go. It takes hours to arrive: good thing I have a TV in my car. We watch DVD movies.
When I arrive, I don't go to the rink right away. First, I go to my mom's brother's home and unpack there. Then I put my equipment on, except my helmet, gloves, and skates. Finally, I go to the ice rink. There I put my skates on, my helmet on, and my gloves on. Last, I wait with my team until it's time to get on the ice rink and skate!
Quiet
by Peter Toebe
(3rd grade)
Over soft forest floors,
scarlet, burgundy, lemon, and apricot
hover like sprinkles
on a cupcake.
It's time to let go.
People watch lazily
out small windows slumped
at the bottom of a hill
as leaves
fall
down
down
down.
Sundaes
by Aveer Sood
(4th grade)
At Sweet Peaks, I order
a sundae in a cup.
I pick as my flavor mint
chocolate chip with normal
chocolate. The
mint feels refreshing and
the chocolate makes it a little
sweet. It feels like a dream.
Missoula is lucky to have
Sweet Peaks.
Peter
by Danielle Gurbacki
(4th grade)
Peter Toebe loves sports, but he mostly likes Four Square and soccer. As a nine-year-old boy in McCall, he surprisingly likes orange chicken: "It has a sweet, sour, savory, and delicious taste," he says. Peter lived in Connecticut before he moved to Idaho. He was born in his own house and he likes to play a game he made up called Room Catch. "It is fun," he says, "but my sister changes the rules as we play." Peter is interested in books like Dog Man and Captain Underpants. His friends are Laken, Logan, Luke, and Atlas, but when he plays Room Catch with Elly, "I feel mad and revengeful," Peter says. "I storm out of the room and tell my mom what happened. My mom talks to my sister, and then we all get over it."
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 2/5/26)
Danielle
Grecco/Roman Times: NEWS (gods/goddesses); ADVERTISEMENT (Roman Bathhouses);
Pink poetry: General to Specific; The Right Words
Elly
Grecco/Roman Times: NEWS (Persian Wars); ADVERTISEMENT (restaurant); FEATURES (Greek Theater review + coloring picture);
Pink poetry: The Right Words
Aveer
Grecco/Roman Times: NEWS (Pelopponesian Wars); FEATURES (Word Search);
Pink poetry: General to Specific; The Right Words
Peter
Grecco/Roman Times: NEWS (Trojan War); ADVERTISEMENT (Gladiator weapons);FEATURES (Crossword + Comic);
Green poetry: Haiku; Tanka; Tercets; Quatrains; Cinquain; Limericks
Nikita
Grecco/Roman Times: NEWS (Greek Trade); FEATURES (Greek Theater review); FEATURES (Maze);
Pink poetry: Pictures with words; Poem of Feeling; General to Specific; The Right Words
