WW & 1st Year Humanities Foundations 2020-2021
Canoeing
by Nelson Witte (5th grade)
It sways, it rolls, it
rocks. The wind
pulling farther and farther away.
For the loneliness is unbearable.
The cold of winter
is settling in.
I must head north to my village
before day's end.
Lego Bridge
by Carter Erekson (3rd grade)
Legos make me feel happy. Whenever I have a chance, I work on my latest creation. This time, it's a multicolored bridge. It is very colorful, with grey train tracks on it. My sister built all the scenery around it, including trees, a river, and a campsite. We worked really hard on this Lego bridge. We built a train track and a boxcar to go with it, because we were reading The Boxcar Children Book 1.
Theo
by Dora Fortgang (3rd grade)
Sometimes being an older sister is fun, but sometimes it's very annoying. My brother Theo is six, and in first grade. His teacher is Mrs. Baker. Even though Theo can be SUPER annoying, it's nice to have someone to play with whom I can touch. Because of the Coronavirus, I can't touch my friends.
In September I got an L.O.L Dollhouse. My brother LOVED it and always dragged me into playing with it. In his defense, sometimes I do want to play with it.
Theo loves Cheezits but whenever he has them, I try not to be too close because I HATE the smell. I don't like to eat Cheezits, but I would much rather eat them than him.
My brother is very shy when he meets new people, so there's a lot of silence (which I can normally break). My brother also whines a lot, and I hate it because it sounds as bad as nails on a chalkboard. I do not share a room with him (Phew). Sometimes my brother is so easy to make cry: he's as fragile as glass.
Dora’s Nutcracker
by Esa Erekson
Dora possesses a nutcracker that her aunt bought for her. She received it, “like, two years ago.” She adds, “I was going to The Nutcracker with my cousin and my aunt, and we walked out during intermission.”
Apparently, they found some little tables with people selling things. Dora picked out a nutcracker but it doesn’t work. It’s more of a decoration. She named it Bob.
Dora watched the rest of the show knowing that Bob was hers. Today, he sits on a wooden dresser in Dora’s room, staring at everyone who walks by.
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.
“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.
Homework now in play:
(updated 6/2/21)
Nelson
Revisions = 100%
Edits = 100%
FINISHED!
Dora
Revisions = 100%
Edits = 100%
FINISHED!
Carter
Revisions = 100%
Edits = 100%
FINISHED!
Esa
Revisions = 100%
Edits = 100%
FINISHED!
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 2000-2020 HERE.
See pieces written by 1st Year classes (6th & 7th graders) from 2001-2020 HERE.
Dora
smart, cool
singing, writing, playing
Hillsdale, Portland, Cheezits, snake
watching, playing, talking
annoying, anger
Theo
Dog
soft, cute
licking, loving, petting
fur, bone, claw, mouse
scratching, purring, snuggling
swift, fast
Cat
Sky
blue, cloudy
raining, sowing, hiding
cloud, air, grass, dirt
circling, rotating, growing
round, colorful
Earth
-- Dora Fortgang
