A group of fifth graders at Berry Intermediate School in Lebanon are adding the five “W’s” – who, what, when, where and why – to the traditional slate of the “3 R’s” learned at school.

The quintet of students have started writing and publishing Warrior Pride, a monthly newspaper dedicated to events happening at Berry, written by and for fifth graders.

“It’s things going on in our class and stuff we think people need to know,” said aspiring journalist and contributor Colton Quantz.

Warrior Pride was the brainchild of Dwight Scheid and Kyle Clifton, both 10, who decided to start their own classroom newspaper after reading “The Landry News,” a book by Andrew Clements.

The first issue, which Dwight and Kyle and wrote published, was entirely handwritten. For the next issue, the duo decided to step up production by typing and printing the paper on a computer. They also added Colton Quantz, 11, Donovan Tebow, 10, and Charlie Norris, 10 to the Warrior Pride staff.

In the last two editions, Dwight has been responsible for writing editorials, posting events and doing the grunt work of physically typing the paper onto the computer. Kyle is in charge of each issue’s voter poll (this month’s topic was boys vs. girls, with boys taking an early lead in the vote, Kyle noted). Colton and Charlie write about sports. Donovan handles jokes, comics and riddle.

“It’s pretty exciting to see people read it,” Kyle said. “People get to know what’s going on and that’s important.”

The boys are all students of fifth grade teacher Melissa Hensley, but she gives them the entire credit for the newspaper.

“It was their idea to start it and they are in charge of what goes into it,” Hensley said. “They are five very extraordinary, creative boys who take a lot of pride in their work.”

The paper is distributed in the boys’ class, plus they make a few extra copies for friends.

Dwight is not afraid to suffer for his art. For the editorial in the second edition of “Warrior Pride”, he abstained from electronics, notably television, for an entire week to determine if Americans were spoiled by such amenities. His answer was a resounding yes. In the latest issue, Dwight tackled the heady topic of why people do good deeds, noting that many students were participating in a volunteer project at the school in order to get candy and not solely for the reward of doing good.

There has been a surprise downside to producing the paper for Dwight.

“For me, the worst part has been that there are no surprises when it comes out,” he said. “I know everything that’s going to be in it already. All my friends get to read it and find stuff out, but I already know it.”