By Elizabeth Barrett, Isabel Retsinas and Alex Washington

We interviewed Farris Turner and Katherine Grill from the newly-elected student council.

Farris said she wanted to run for president be-cause of all the wonderful people at TMSE.

Kathrine said she

wanted to be vice president because she thinks it will be exciting.

When the elec-tion was over, Far-ris won the office of president, but Kathrine did not win vice president.

Katherine and Farris said they had a good time trying.

Congratulations Farris and Kathrine!

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GiGi’s Cupcakes a special treat!

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Magnet ExpressVolume 1/No.1 Fall/Winter 2009

UA and TMSE partnerships kick off

UA CLUBScontinued on page 3

Vol. 3/No.1 PULLING IN NEWS Fall 2011

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Pictures and stories from

UA Partnership classes

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New 2011-12 SGA officers elected

By Elizabeth Barrett

Welcome and all aboard to this issue of the Mag-net Express!

Here, you will see

articles and stories on UA partnerships.

Our school is happy to have 22 partnerships this year, and thank you to the teachers from the Univer-

sity of Alabama for com-ing to our school to make this all happen.

Also check out the articles about different partnership classes inside.

Climb aboard the Magnet Express and learn more!

Farris Turner was elected SGA President.

Photo by Lisa SmithThe new Student Governement Association sold pumpkin pops as one of their first acts in office. The pops were sold to raise money for United Way.

Teacher spotlight

By Krystin Glass

Mrs. Tonya Hester is a 5th grade teacher that teaches at the Tuscaloosa Magnet School.

Hester’s favorite color is red. Her favorite food is Mexican food. She has been to Dallas, Texas. She says she loves working at the Tuscaloosa Magnet School.

She used to be on the gymnastics team and likes to watch gymnastics. She

also likes to play softball and watch it too. Mrs. Hester is a great teacher!

TMSE’s Hester is a former gymnastBy Takiyah Jerido

I learned from Mrs. Sanberg that she liked coming here but liked vactions more, and I was surprised when she said she worked at three diferent places then here which are Wood-land Forest, University Place. Also I asked her what the title would be for a song about her life and she said that it would be “Happy Trails” or “Fly Me to

the Moon.” Her favorite book is a biography of Abraham Lincon called Team of rivals. Her favorite foods are Mexi-can and fish tacos. She is different than what she looks like!

Photo by Krystin Glass

Mrs. Sandberg says, “Fly Me To The Moon!”

Photo by Takiyah Jerido

By Molly ElliottI interviewed Coach

Haney. He has been teaching gym at this school for almost a year now. He said it’s hard

working with kids, but it is fun.

Haney’s favorite part about working here is getting to know all the children that go to

school here. It bothers him

when the kids in P.E. don’t follow directions, even after he explained

the whole thing to them. I asked him if he could

have any other job at this school what would it be?

He said that he would teach technology.

Coach Haney enjoys time with P.E. students

By Magnet Express Staff

Mrs. Ezell is getting new books for the library.

On Dec. 10th the library had a book fair, Ms. Ezell, the librarian, will be ordering 150-200 fiction and nonfiction books with $3,000 dollars that were earned from the book fair.

Journalists Hastin and Mariah interviewed Mrs. Ezell about the books.

“The reason we had a book fair is to raise money for more books,” said Ezell.

“The reason why we want to order more books is for new reading mat- erial for the students” said Ezell.

We also interviewed David Barrett.

David Barrett said “I think it’s a great thing to expand your reading and branch out to try new things.”

”Josh Mozzell says he’s very excited about new books.

Ezell: Library to get new books

UA partnerships continue

By Elizabeth Barrett

I interviewed Jenna Jack-son from anthropology.

She says that they are learning about different people and their symbols

and clans (different groups of people).

She really feels like this is an exciting thing to learn about because she is curious to know what other people are like.

By Elizabeth Barrett, Isabel Retsinas and Alex Washington

We interviewed Josue Garcia from the french UA class.

He said he decided to take French because he was interested in learning a new language.

In French class, he said, they’re learning about how to say people’s feelings and animals.

He said that maybe one day in the future he can translate for other people.

He likes french so much he took it last year.

By Isabel Retsinas and Alex Washington

We interviewed Merrill Fitts from interior design.

She said that the first week that her teacher told them to design a dream room of their very own.

Merrill said that she thought that this was very interesting thing to do because she likes making different things – especially a dream room!

Anthropology class studies symbols

Dream room is fun for ID students

French UA partnership is tres amusant!

Photos by Lisa Smith. Clockwise from top left: Hand-bells, violin, digital storytelling, world drumming, interior design.

GiGi’s Cupcakes offers a tasty local treatBy Isabel Retsinas

At your birthday you had like 20 cupcakes, but Gigi’s cupcakes makes 600 a day!

To find out more I inter-viewed Melissa, the head baker of Gigi’s along with the other bakers: Molly, Heather, Tammy,and Haley.

Gigi’s Cupcakes has stores across the nation,

but the one who inspired all the cupcakes was Gina Butler.

Melisa, Molly and Heather bake the cup-cakes and Tammy and Haley decorate them

Their newest cupcake is the cannoli.

They are also making a pumpkin on for Hallow-een. Melissa’s favorite is the S’more cupcake and Molly’s favorite is But-terscotch and Southern Comfort.

“Its like a pecan pie”Molly said.

Out of all the cupcake stores Gigi’s is the best. When you’re in Tus-caloosa, go visit Gigi’s Cupcakes!

Photo By Isabel RetsinasGiGi’s Cupcakes offers banana creme pie, chocolate covered cherry, chocolate salted caramel, grasshopper, italian creme, wedding cake and midnight magic to name just some of the cupcakes that are made fresh daily.

GiGi’s Cupcakes is open Mon-Sat: 10 am - 8 pm and is closed Sunday. They are located at 1800 McFarland Blvd.in Midtown Village.

Technology tops the Christmas lists!What students want and like about Christmas

1. Nintendo DS

2. 3-headed Nessie

3. Stuffed animal

4.Phone

5. Kindle

6.iPad

7. iPod

8. Laptop

Survey by Elizabeth Barrett, Isabel Retsinas, Lisa Smith and Alex Washington

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Student spotlight

Elizabeth Barrett

Molly Elliott

Krystin Glass

Takiyah Jerido

Isabel Retsinas

Lisa Smith

Alex Washington

Joshua Williams

Magnet Express staff:

By Lisa Smith

Josh Fording is in the 5th grade here at the Magnet School.

For Halloween he dressed as Voldemort. His favorite candy is jelly beans. He usually trick-

or-treats for about 45 minutes to an hour. Josh is in the SGA.

By Lisa Smith

Katherine Grill is in the 4th grade here at the Magnet School.

For Halloween she dressed as Princess Leia.

Her favorite candy is Butterfinger. She likes to trick-or-treat in her neighborhood.

She likes to go trick-or-treating with Anna Adams. They usually

make their costumes. Katherine ran for Vice President of SGA.

Photo by Isabel Retsinas

Want more?We’ll see you in the next issue of The Magnet Express!

(More fun! more stories! more information!)

By Takiyah Jerido

Noa Jordan came to this school August 10,2011. Noa felt nervous when she first came in the school and was also ner-vous about meeting her teacher.

Noa’s teacher’s name is Mrs.Sandberg. Her fa-vorite colors are blue and pink (mine too)!

Her old school was called Narvie J. Harris. It

is in Alanta, Georgia. Her favorite food is mac and cheese (also my favorite food)!

Photo by Takiyah Jerido

KATHERINE GRILL NOA JORDAN

JOSH FORDING

By Joshua Williams

The Tuscaloosa Magnet School SGA came up an idea to have a canned food drive for the people that don’t have food in other

countries, like Africa. The students that I interviewed

were Cole, Amelia, and Allison. The students said they feel good about helping because they feel hopeful that people will survive

with the food students gave. Mrs. Poe’s class won because they collected 109 cans.

The class runner up was Mrs.Gerkin’s class, which collected 99 cans.

By Elizabeth Barrett, Isabel Retsinas and Alex Washington

Hi there muggles(that means non wizard)! We interviewed Tai Msoses. She went to the Quid-ditch on the Quad. (That is a Harry Poter-theamed sport.) Her favorite thing about it was drinking but-ter beer. Tai has only read the first three books of Harry Potter. Her favorite character in Harry Pot-ter is Ron. She also liked Snape. She cried when he died in the movie. Her least favorite was a dog that was licking her dur-ing the Quidditch game. Her least favorite charac-ter is Voldemort because he tried to kill Harry Potter and killed Harry’s parents. Off to Hogwarts!

Poe’s class wins SGA canned food drive

Quidditch on the Quad fun for muggles