First Year of Kid Scoop News a Success at McAndrew Elementary School

Third through fifth grade students at McAndrew Elementary, 100 students in total, received monthly editions of Kids Scoop News this year provided by the Ainsworth Star-Journal in partnership with the Nebraska Press Association, at no cost to the school. The first year of Kid Scoop News in Nebraska was located in mostly Northeast and North Central Nebraska, but for the 2022-23 school year, the Nebraska Press Association’s Kid Scoop News partnership will be going statewide.

Here is an example of the History section of Kid Scoop News, which asks kids to think and inquire about how family home kitchens, cooking and meals have changed – and stayed the same – in the last few generations.

Diego Godoy’s favorite part of this edition of Kid Scoop News was the maze called “Cloud Confusion – and it WAS confusing. I had to restart a couple times, but I finished it!”

Ursula Morales says her favorite part of each Kid Scoop News is the word searches. But she loves completing all of the challenging activities in her newspaper and added, “Mazes don’t stand a chance against me.”

The sport section is a simple introduction to learning about Venn diagrams, which kids learn during school.

Blake Hansmeyer’s favorite part of his newspaper is the word scrambles - this month’s answer was a funny joke.

The November edition had a Veterans Day theme, but also included sections on fitness, the science of leaves changing color in the fall, sharks, the aerodynamics of football, the founding fathers, peanut butter’s invention and manufacturing and saving money.