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!
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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!
Exhausted
by Peter Toebe
(3rd grade)
As the lake begins to freeze,
frost grows all around.
It is finally time.
Coming home after a long journey
through deep snow: covered
in small crystals.
Heavy snow-covered boots fly
across the room.
An unzipped coat falls
to the floor. Fluffy snow
sprinkles off gloves
like little moths
fluttering around.
There is steam coming
from the kitchen. A warm
cup of hot chocolate
waits to be drunk.
Inspirational
by Aveer Sood
(4th grade)
Soccer is my favorite sport, because you get exercise and let out your annoyance. The sport makes me feel fantastic and jovial. Whenever you kick a great shot, most likely it goes in, and it feels good.
My favorite thing about soccer is shooting and corner kicks. Whenever you score a goal, it makes a swish. But when you hit the crossbar, it goes doink or boing.
Relaxed
by Danielle Gurbacki
(4th grade)
Hot air is so exhausting.
Little kids splash in my path:
they move out of the way as I come
running through rough sand.
The sky looks so cheerful and blue:
It is cool and relaxing when I hit
the water.
Free
by Elly Toebe
(5th grade)
Swimming is my happy place. It is somewhere that I can let my imagination free and just be myself. When I'm swimming, it feels like all my fears and worries are being washed away. As soon as I jump into the cold water, my body is being refreshed like old, dry flowers when a rainstorm comes.
As soon as I jump out of my car, I run on the hot stones to the chocolate-brown dock. I can hear voices yelling, "No running on the dock!" But all I can really hear are the voices in my head, saying: "Don't stop!"
Then it hits me: the cold lake like my body is being shocked by frigid waves that soon turn warmer. I can taste the small amount of liquid that slips into my mouth. Once I pop my head out of the tide, I can see the sand underwater. My feet hit the bottom and rocks pierce my feet: yet no blood! Water smells very refreshing, just like rain on a summer day. I can hear the splash! of liquid and the pounding of feet on the dock.
Content
by Danielle Gurbacki
(4th grade)
I love Drama. When I'm acting, I feel amazing. I also feel like I am being let free. The sounds of acting burst through my ears like waves crashing on the shore. I love being able to express my character with my body. When I am expressing myself, I feel like I am in a new world.
Acting helps me think calming thoughts. When I'm eating lunch at Drama Camp, the food tasted so good because I am hungry after all the action.
Emotional
by Peter Toebe
(3rd grade)
Music is a kind of mixture of onomatopoeia and happiness. It sounds like you can be free from sadness and madness. You can smell the delicious food your parents are about to serve you. You can see the music video you are about to watch. You can feel your fingers snapping to the beat of the song. Then, when you are ready, you walk over to the table, and eat your food.
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 10/7/25)
Danielle
Revisions = 100%
Edits = 0/4
Interview: Peter
Science: Fingerprint Crime Scene
Pink poetry: Poem of Feeling; General to Specific; The Right Words
Elly
Revisions = 4/6
Edits = 0/4
poem of feeling (contest): Fall
Interview: Lian Nu
Science: Fingerprint Crime Scene
Fibonacci: Bees
Pink poetry: Poem of Feeling; General to Specific; The Right Words
Aveer
Revisions = 4/6
Edits = 0/4
Interview: Danielle
Science: Fingerprint Crime Scene
Fibonacci: Sunflowers, Rabbits, Bees
Pink poetry: Poem of Feeling; General to Specific; The Right Words
Peter
Revisions = 100%
Edits = 0/4
Interview: Elly
Science: Fingerprint Crime Scene
Fibonacci: Bees
Pink poetry: General to Specific; The Right Words
Nikita
Revisions = 4/6
Edits = 0/4
Interview: Aveer
Science: Fingerprint Crime Scene
Pink poetry: Pictures with words; Poem of Feeling; General to Specific; The Right Words
