The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Editor's note: Last week, Ecole McIsaac School Grade 7 student Indra Wood spent an afternoon at The Reminder learning the ins and outs of journalism. It was part of the school's Light Up Your Learning campaign to introduce students to different occupations. As part of her experience, we had Indra write an article on the campaign. * * * On Thursday, May 10, students at Ecole McIsaac School from Grades 4 through 8 participated in Light Up Your Learning. 'It's a good way for kids to experience something they haven't done before,' said organizer Cindi Lee. 'They have to (choose) something they haven't done before.' There were activities held in the school like cake decorating with icing or fondant, juggling, mad science, geocaching, sushi making, cooking and much more. There where also activities held outside the school such as fire making at the Rotary Wheel, sculpture and mask making at the NorVa Centre, journalism at The Reminder, fishing, and broadcasting at CFAR 590. 'It was an idea that started in 1997 at Ruth Betts,' said Lee, who started the project after she saw the program while student-teaching in Brandon. The Light up your Learning program stopped for a couple of years. 'It was filtered through all four schools, but slowly drifted away,' said Lee. 'Now that I'm at McIsaac, I thought I should do it again.' Light up Your Learning was created to get kids involved in different activities. 'Hopefully they will like it and want to do it again as a hobby or a future career,' Lee said. This year, she thought the program went really well. 'I enjoyed seeing all the kids having fun and trying something they haven't done before.' Roughly 190 students participated in this event. 'Everything is going good,' Lee said close to the end of the day. 'I've had lots of feedback that was good.' If she had her choice, Lee says she would have taken the geocaching lesson. Though Lee put the program together, she says it couldn't have run without the volunteers in the school and the community.
