It sounds like a typical newspaper: editors, reporters, photos and deadlines. But there's something a little different about the Eisenhower Extreme. Everyone on staff is a fourth-grader.

The pupils, who attend Eisenhower Elementary School in Upper St. Clair, are planning to turn out four issues and a final recap during the school year. Principal Mark Miller and Student Media Coordinator Denise Naumann said Eisenhower is the only school they know of that has a paper with a fourth-grade staff.

The school started the paper in 2005. This year, Mrs. Naumann and three other parent volunteers -- Carole King, Sue Ravasio and Mary Schmitt -- are helping pupils to organize their work, lay out the paper, review drafts of articles and film commercials, which are shown during morning announcements.

After an information meeting in September, which about 77 of the school's 108 pupils attended, about 44 decided to join. They then had to fill out applications for positions.

The paper takes a good deal of work, Mrs. Naumann said. Pupils meet every day.

"This is a very energetic, very enthusiastic group," Mrs. Naumann said. During meetings, she introduces the youngsters to professional style guides and journalistic techniques, including how to write headlines.

Because the paper's audience is the entire school, kindergarten through grade 4, the Extreme Team interviews teachers and pupils from different grades and covers school and township events.

The budding journalists may think up their own ideas or use one from a story idea bank. Maura Brody, 10, recently wrote an article about virtual pets called Webkinz. She surveyed different classrooms to find out which Webkinz were the most popular.

"I love to write," she said, adding that she has wanted to be on the paper since the school started it.

Sometimes a reporter will do a mystery interview with a teacher, and classmates have to figure out who the person is.

Fact-checker Ciara Eiriz, 9, who uses dictionaries and the Internet for her task, said the paper can get busy, but the work isn't too much to handle.

The art department includes student photographers and artists.

Photographer Emma Hasco, 9, decided to join the paper after seeing its commercials as a third-grader. Two reporters were in the video, talking about sports and events in Upper St. Clair.

The hardest part of being on the paper, she said, is choosing material that everyone in the school can enjoy. "You don't want it to be boring," she said.

Because pupils don't have publishing software on their computers at the school, Mrs. Naumann pieces together the paper, which can be three double-sided pages or more, with Print Shop software before the school prints it.