Over the last few months, the third grade has been working hard on a small school newspaper. The class brainstormed topics of interest in our school, made lists of people who might know about these subjects, learned about the “5 Ws” (who, what, when, where, why), and used these questions to create lists of interview questions. After conducting interviews in teams and making notes about what they learned, students worked together to compose, revise and edit newspaper articles. Students practiced writing interesting lead sentences, made sure each paragraph had a topic sentence and tried to conclude the article with something for the reader to think about. The third grade students put a lot of work into the newspaper and are so proud of the results!