The STEM Times Moore Magnet eleMentary School Clarksville, Tennessee
VoluMe 1, ISSue 1
Spring 2016
‘Rescuing’ breakfast, serving others Moore students help feed hungry By BJ BARNES Fifth grade .
Two Moore Magnet students collect breakfast foods for the Manna Cafe. The food is used to help feed the hungry in Clarksville.
Photo by BJ Barnes
You’re probably asking, “Where does all the breakfast we don’t eat go?” Well, every school day, the breakfast club collects the unopened leftover food, then they donate it to Manna Café. Manna Café is a local program that provides food to the needy. The types of food they donate are milk, orange juice, fruit, and other breakfast foods like Pop Tarts and breakfast pizza. In the first semester, 10 students
helped collect the breakfast. In the second semester, 11 students help collect the breakfast. Students Parker Gibbs and Eddie Quintanilla said they volunteer because they understand the impact that a daily breakfast can have on people who are less fortunate. You’re probably also asking, “How did it all start?” Manna Café asked if we would like to help and we agreed. “Someone from CMCSS Central Office asked if other schools would like to volunteer to donate our leftover breakfast foods,” said Mrs. Hammond. See BREAKFAST on Page 2
Journalism Club new ‘first’ for Moore Magnet By KIM SMITH Moore Magnet Principal What an exciting time at Moore Magnet! Our elementary school on the hill believes in firsts! The idea for this newspaper was the brainchild of our fabulous academic coach, Patti Sinclair. She reached out to Dee Boaz and Patricia Ferrier, who previously worked for our local newspaper, The See JOURNALISM on Page 2
Members of the Moore Magnet Journalism Club celebrate finishing the first issue of The STEM Times, the first newspaper published by students at the school. Six students met after school once a week to produce The STEM Times. This newspaper was written by, from left, Brendon O’Bryant, Brady Cooper and Janey Stevens, all fourth-graders, BJ Barnes, fifth grade, and Mackenzie Fields and Anna Bradley, both fourth-graders.