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January & February,
Welcome back:
Friday Reading Meetings White Oak Clubs!
Starting Friday, March 5th, White Oak will be Beginning Wednesday, March 10th, White Oak
reinstituting our Friday Reading Meetings! A School will incorporate social clubs back into
staple of the White Oak program, these our school days! These clubs will rotate through
meetings allow students the opportunity to 3rd, 4th, and 5th periods on Wednesdays.
prepare for and to practice presenting short Students will have 7 different clubs to choose
readings or presentations in front of a group. from initially. Clubs include pottery, fitness,
This incorporates many of the language skills script reading/drama, mentoring club, abstract
covered throughout our program, including oral art, international exploration, or beginning
reading fluency and oral expression skills. These drumming! These periods will serve as
meetings will take place on a rotating schedule enrichment and social opportunities for our
(1st period one week, 2nd period the next), and students.
students are assigned to reading weeks. They
will prepare their readings with the help of their Benefits of school club
tutorial teachers. membership:
After the readers have finished, the students in
grades 5-8 will participate in a literature circle
with Ms. Michalski. The high school students
will have the opportunity to work on their
executive functioning skills by using their
remaining time to complete unfinished class and
homework assignments from the week with the
guidance of their teachers. This will be
facilitated by Mr. McGovern.
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The characters are also likable. Our main characters Joe and 22
Movie Review: Soul make for great leads. Their dynamic is funny but gets sentimental
later on. Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey also do a great job as their
By Spencer Carroll characters and have really good chemistry with each other. Lastly,
the message about life is very strong. Not only is it strong, but it’s
quite mature and will resonate more with older audiences than it
will for kids. In fact, the movie is more aimed at older audiences
than it is kids. Not that it’s inappropriate and kids can’t watch it
but more that kids won’t connect with it or understand it as much
as older audiences will.
Overall, Soul was another big hit for Pixar that shows that they
haven’t lost their touch. The story subverted my expectations, the
animation is gorgeous, the characters are likable, and the message
about life is quite mature and will resonate with older audiences.
It has to be one of Pixar’s most mature movies they’ve ever made.
It’s an uplifting movie that’ll cheer you up if you’re feeling blue or
Soul is an animated fantasy comedy-drama, released Dec 25, if you’re going through some tough times in life.
2020, and directed by Pete Docter, whose previous directing
works include Monsters Inc, Up, and Inside Out. It came out the
same year as Pixar’s other movie, Onward. It stars Jamie Foxx,
Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House, and Angela Bassett.
In Soul, Joe Gardner (voiced by Jamie Foxx) is a musician who Lower School News
works as a middle school music teacher. He dreams of playing ~Mrs. Saloio
jazz, but his mother doesn’t seem to like that. One day, he learns
of an opening gig to perform in the band of a saxophone player Our Lower School students recently returned from February
named Dorothea Williams (voiced by Angela Bassett) and vacation. Many of them had the opportunity to spend time with
their families. Others were able to watch new movies and Facetime
auditions for it. Impressed by his piano playing, Mrs. Williams
some of their friends.
offers him the gig as she has a show later that night. As he leaves
excited for the performance, he accidentally falls down a manhole. Our students have been doing a great job wearing their masks in
He finds himself as a soul and ends up in the Great Before, a place school and practicing social distance from their peers. Some
where soul counselors prepare unborn souls for life. Joe meets a students are still learning remotely but are looking forward to
soul named 22 (voiced by Tina Fey) and they try to return to joining their classmates when they return.
Earth so Joe can get back in his body and perform at the music
In our Science class students have been working on creating
show. ecosystems for the animals of their choice. They have been
researching each ecosystem and will be presenting the information
I remember when I first saw the teaser trailer for this movie, lots to their classmates and displaying them in the school.
of people weren’t so excited about it. They said it started to look
interesting but then were disappointed when they found out that
the main character falls down a manhole and turns into a soul.
Many were saying that it was going to be a disappointing dud. I
could understand where they were coming from but was having
some hope for it since it’s Pixar and they’ve shown plenty of times
what they could do. And I’m glad to say that Pixar did not
disappoint me! The one thing that really surprised me the most
about Soul was its story. Not to give away what happens, but the
majority of it doesn’t take place in the Great Before as I was
expecting and played out how I didn’t think it would.
During this difficult time everyone is working hard to stay safe and
Once again, Pixar knocks it out of the park with the animation. It’s healthy. Teachers and students have adjusted to the temporary
amazing how far they’ve come with their animation since their changes that have occurred within our school. Everyone is excited
first movie, Toy Story. The animation looks gorgeous and the about our return to clubs and Friday meetings! Students are also
looking forward to the warmer temperatures that will allow them
human characters have great textures to them. The world of New
to participate in more outside activities.
York City also looks excellent. It’s almost to the point where it
looks photorealistic with CG characters in the environment. 2
People learned they could use computers instead of handwriting
How the First Computers and using typewriters. The computers got easier to carry and
smarter than they used to be before.
Were Made
By Derryn Miller
Computing means solving math problems. The first computers
were humans. Catherine Johnson’s computing skills helped the
first astronaut to land on the moon. Even though the humans
were good at math, some of the math problems were too hard for
them. Scientists wondered how to build a machine to help the
human computers.
It took the scientists hundreds of years to make the first machine
computers. The first machine computers didn't have any
keyboards, and the computers were really big. The space of the
first computer took up a whole room. It weighed thirty tons. Math An early home computer
was all the first computer could do.
Today there are computers that can fit in your pocket that are
called phones. You can also communicate on today's computers.
Today we have better computers than back then. What will
computers look like in the future?
ENIAC -- the first programmable computer
The first game on the computer was called Zorc. It was different
from today's games because you had to type in the actions of the
story and because that game didn't have pictures.
What will computers of the future look like?
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