The Stockbridge Plain School Newspaper Project
 

The Stockbridge Plain School Newspaper is an interest based student project. There are 200 fourth and fifth grade students who will have the opportunity to participate and submit works for publishing. Some of the students are interested in photojournalism, some enjoy writing lead and feature articles. Other students want to report on events and classes at the Plain School. Interviews with new students and teachers are also planned. We hope to showcase art work, too, by using our scanner. Along with the actual writing of the paper, there is another element that the students can involve themselves with, and that is the web publishing facet of the project. The most exciting part of this project for me is that the students will own this newspaper, and it will reflect their interests and concerns. It is my hope that this will be an ongoing enrichment project that the fourth and fifth grade students will continue to develop and expand as the years go on.

We recently invited local professionals from the field of newspaper publishing into the fifth grades to introduce the students to the this dynamic and challenging area of interest. The students were given the opportunity to discuss various aspects of newspapers, and then worked on layout design for a front page. The students in both fourth and fifth grades have been submitting works for publication in the soon-to-be-published paper, which as of this writing remains nameless. There is spirited balloting occuring however, and a clear winner should be decided soon. Student editing of student work is next on the agenda, as well as retrieving images from the digital camera and the scanner. A few of the images captured by student photjournalists are previewed below.

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Kenya Project, 3rd grade, Plain School

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