Publisher
Fillmore County Journal
jason@fillmorecountyjournal.com
Our team at the Fillmore County Journal is excited to introduce a completely new feature in this week’s newspaper that is geared toward our next generation of readers.
Over the past few years, parents have asked us to include something interactive in the newspaper for their children. Do you remember the Mini-Pages that used to run in all of the daily newspapers years ago?
As a child, I felt like that was my own newspaper within the pages of the regular newspaper that my parents read. A newspaper for kids. It was full of puzzles and brainteasers.
We’ve been searching for something similar to that concept, and we found it. We have signed on with a syndicated national feature known as Kid Scoop, published in newspapers all over the United States.
Starting today, Kid Scoop will be published every week in full color in the Fillmore County Journal. This feature is intended to be an interactive experience that promotes literacy, developed by Kid Scoop founder and former Third Grade teacher Vicki Whiting. The Kid Scoop feature provides a number of interactive experiences revolving around mathematics, reading, science, writing, and problem solving – all important.
I have checked with other newspapers publishing this feature, and they are receiving tremendously positive feedback from children, parents and teachers. The Kid Scoop feature presents a great opportunity for kids to break away from screen time and do something interactive in the newspaper.
We are quite pleased to roll out this feature for students in the following school districts: Grand Meadow, Kingsland, LeRoy-Ostrander, Chatfield, Fillmore Central, Lanesboro, Mabel-Canton, Houston, Spring Grove, and Rushford-Peterson.
I should mention that the new Kid Scoop feature would not be possible without the support of sponsors. Thank you to those businesses helping to make Kid Scoop possible in the Fillmore County Journal each week.
We’d love to hear feedback from our readers on this new feature. As always, you can e-mail me at jason@fillmorecountyjournal.com or call our office at (507) 765-2151.