6 | THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2025 FOREST LAKE TIMES
The Fifth Grade students at Forest Lake Middle School recently learned about the importance of their community newspapers in partnership with teachers through an initiative with your Forest Lake Times.
Each year the Forest Lake Middle School 5th grade teachers share with their students the importance of local reporters and the newspapers. They explained the design elements of the newspaper and its approach to community journalism while inviting the students to design an actual ad that would be used by the newspaper’ s advertisers. The teachers, in coordination with the Forest Lake Times, taught students how to design an advertisement. Each student was then assigned to design one for a local business. Four students were selected as winners.
We’ d like to thank all the teachers and students for participating, as we loved the creativity that went into each design. We would also like to thank the advertisers that sponsored the students’ ads.
Newspaper In Education is a cooperative effort between a newspaper and a local school system to use the newspaper as a tool for instruction. Each Newspaper in Education program differs according to the needs of the local educational community and paper. Newspapers are used as instructional tools in many subjects and grade levels. The Newspaper in Education programs often focus on a specific grade level or area, such as middle school, when launching a program. The goal of the Newspaper in Education program is to use the newspaper to help teachers with the subjects they are already teaching.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR KIDS IN THE TIMES WINNERS FOR THEIR CREATIVE ADS!
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