Magnet Express By N’Dia Wilder In student council this year, TMSE has J. Mike Comer and Jasmine Kelly. The student council decided what fundraisers to students would do and other things like that. Mrs. Deanna Poe is in charge of the student council. J. Mike said student council is thinking about new ideas like helping the United Way and Boys and Girls Club through fundraisers. TMSE 2010-11 student council works on fundraising Vol. 2 No.1 PULLING IN NEWS Fall 2010 INSIDE THIS ISSUE Your favorite cafeteria food Field trip fun By Maddie Johnson and Kayla Smith TMSE is doing many found raisers this year. We have spoken with both Mrs. Gerkin and Ms. Hester about a fundraiser called Pennies for Peace. Each classroom has jars that can be filled with coins by the students. “I feel it is a wonderful opportunity for are students to give to children especially girls, so they may get a education like we do,” she said. TMSE does fundraisers throughout the year to raise money for books, computers and various other things the school needs. However, Pennies for Peace money will go to Afghanistan and Pakistan. “I think they will use the money to build new schools,” Mrs. Gerkin said. “Fundraisers [like Pennies for Peace] are an easy, great and fun way to raise money,” Ms. Hester said. Students donate Pennies for Peace TMSE Fall 2010 Staff Charlie Clark Staff Writer Kinsley Houzer Staff Writer Maddie Johnson Staff Writer Kayla Smith Staff Writer N’Dia Wilder Staff Writer Peyton Reilly Staff Photographer Photo by Peyton Reilly Pennies for Peace jars collect money from students.
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Magnet ExpressVolume 1/No.1 Fall/Winter 2009
By N’Dia Wilder
In student council this year, TMSE has J. Mike Comer and Jasmine Kelly. The student council decided what fundraisers to students would do and other things like that. Mrs. Deanna Poe is in charge of the student council. J. Mike said student council is thinking about new ideas like helping the United Way and Boys and Girls Club through fundraisers.
TMSE 2010-11 student council
works on fundraising
Vol. 2 No.1 PULLING IN NEWS Fall 2010INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Your favorite cafeteria foodField trip fun
By Maddie Johnson and Kayla Smith
TMSE is doing many found raisers this year. We have spoken with both Mrs. Gerkin and Ms. Hester about a fundraiser called Pennies for Peace. Each classroom has jars that can be filled with coins by the students. “I feel it is a wonderful opportunity for are students to give to children especially girls, so they may get a education like we do,” she said. TMSE does fundraisers throughout the year to raise money for books, computers and various other things the school needs. However, Pennies for Peace money will go to Afghanistan and Pakistan. “I think they will use the money to build new schools,” Mrs. Gerkin said. “Fundraisers [like Pennies for Peace] are an easy, great and fun way to raise money,” Ms. Hester said.
Students donate Pennies for Peace
TMSE Fall 2010 StaffCharlie Clark Staff WriterKinsley Houzer Staff WriterMaddie Johnson Staff WriterKayla Smith Staff WriterN’Dia Wilder Staff Writer
Peyton Reilly Staff Photographer
Photo by Peyton ReillyPennies for Peace jars collect money from students.
Survey shows: Pizza and burgers popular cafeteria favorites at TMSE
By Charlie Clark
Miss Bohon is a new homeroom teacher at the magnet school. She was inspired by her dad’s love for lifelong learning. Her advantages to teaching are getting to spend the day with kids, learning with her students and having the summer off. Her disadvantages are having a
hard time letting the day go. The hardest thing about being a teacher is fitting everything into one day. The hardest behavior to handle is defiance. She handles defiance by encouraging students to make the right choice. “I am blessed to be a teacher at the Magnet School,” she said.
By N’Dia Wilder
10. Myspace9. Fox News8. Bing7. Yahoo6. Google5. Disney channel4. Nickelodeon2. Glogster1. youTube
N’Dia’s Top 10 Website Recommendations
By Maddie Johnson
We surveyed the fourth graders at TMSE. We asked them what their favorite food was in the cafeteria. We found it interesting that both pizza and burgers were the most popular choices. They had 14 votes each. Only three kids bring their lunch according to the survey answers. The following foods also got two or more votes: watermelon, tacos, steak, barbecue, crispetos, hotdog/corndogs, potato smiles, chicken. Six other options were mentioned by students and are included in the “other” category. We also asked if we should offer more fruit in the cafeteria. 30 students said our cafeteria should offer more fruit. Five said less fruit should be offered and 21 said the amount of food the cafeteria serves now is fine.
New teacher, Miss Bohon, happy to be at TMSE
Opinion and Reviews
By Charlie Clark
If you ask me if we should have homework I’ll say no. Because when I get home I have no time to play, I can’t do homework before dinner and after dinner I’m way to tired to do homework to. Anyway I would rather have school start at 7:00 and end at 3:00 so the extra time will be used to do what is now called homework. So I can go home play outside then have dinner and go to bed.
By Kinzley Houzer
The book series I am reviewing is Diary of a Wimpy Kid. The author of this series is Jeff Kinney. The first book is called Diary of a Wimpy Kid. I like this book because it was very hilarious and it is a very unique book. The second one is Rodrick Rules. This book is one of my
favorite books of all time. The third book is Last Straw. This is my number one book. The fourth book is Dog Days. This book is fun to read and is very exciting. The newest book is The Ugly Truth. I have not read this book yet but based on how the others are I think you should read it. Most of the books
take place in Greg’s school. There are several characters in this book. Their names are Greg, Manny, Rodrick, Holly, Rowley. My favorite character is Greg. I think that Greg is smart, funny, and weird. This book series is my favorite and that is why I recommend it to you!
By Kayla Smith
The movie Marmaduke is about a dog and a family. In the movie, Marmaduke talks and in the movie Marmaduke has a dog world that he goes to every night. The other dogs in the movie also talks too, Marmaduke is one of the funniest characters in the movie. One of the dogs in the movie doesn’t get along with Marmaduke. Marmaduke is a light colored dog, he is also a tall dog too. In the movie, Marmaduke is the messiest and most unorganized dog you will ever see when you get finished watching this movie.
Marmaduke loves to wear sunglasses everyday when he goes outside to play. Marmaduke is a funny movie. If you ever go see it, I hope you like it.
An alternative to homework leaves time for more play
Review: New Diary of a Wimpy Kid published
Review: Marmaduke on DVD is family-friendly fun
The latest book, The Ugly Truth, was re-leased in November.
By Kinzley Houzer
This year 4th grade has been on many field trips such as the Coosa River Science School, Bama Theater, and many more. Renee Moreman says that it is great to go on so many field trips. She also says that at her old school she didn’t get to go on many field trips. Renee thinks that it is fun to have more hands on and interactive trips to places. Jada Betts says that the upcoming
field trips will be fun and great. In October the 4th graders went on a field trip to the Westervelt Warner Museum. When we got back to the school a lot of students were saying how great it was to see all that art work at the museum. Mrs. Gerkin is the one who is in charge for making decisions of where the fourth grade will go for the field trips. She is also in charge of collecting the money to go on field trips. In November we went on a trip
to the Coosa River Science School. The trip lasted for three days. We had so much fun and got to share cabins with our friends. There were two cabins. There was a boy cabin and a girl cabin. Both of the cabins had two floors. The first day we were there we talked about what we are going to be doing while we were on this trip and what we are supposed to do during breakfast, lunch, and dinner. After we had lunch we did our activities. My favorite activity was lake living.
Fourth grade field trip wrap-up:Science, theater, art and more
Students participate in a group activity.
Students sit in a circle during an activity at the Coosa River Science School.
