What Kids Say
“When was the first newspaper created and what did it look like?”
Scott Mitchell Johnson talked to children at Pine Street Elementary School
Matthew Hedrich
Kindergarten
Age: 6
Teacher: Debra Wright
“1944. They probably had a lot of pictures and a lot of words. The pictures were probably of 30-story buildings.”
Felicia Lafave
Kindergarten
Age: 6
Teacher: Rhonda Tweed
“March 2001. There were pictures of famous people like Taylor Swift.”
Maxwell Claire
Kindergarten
Age: 6
Teacher: Tammy Willey
“Thirteen years ago. It had recipes and was 18 pages.
It also had stories about Transformers and Spider-Man.”
McKenna Mathie
Pre-Kindergarten
Age: 5
Teacher: Amy Spinning
“March 23. It probably had
pictures of a dog that got hit
by a car or something happy like somebody who came
back to life.”
Cade Ennis
Pre-Kindergarten
Age: 4
Teacher: Amy Spinning
“It was created when I was zero years old. It probably had pictures of dogs and people.”
Cody Chasse
Pre-Kindergarten
Age: 4
Teacher: Amy Spinning
“The first newspaper was The Star-Herald and it was created 100 years ago.
Maybe there were pictures of houses inside.”