Author: Linking Generations

Valentines Day!  It originated as a Christian feast day honoring a martyr named Valentine, and through later folk traditions it has also become a significant cultural, religious and commercial celebration of romance and love in many regions of the world. Happy Valentines Day Country Cottage residents and ABJ Students !  Click here to see more pictures… Continue reading Valentines Day with Archbishop Jordan Catholic High School & Country Cottage Retirement Residence

There are lots of reasons that playing games is great for both seniors and students. Short-term memory, especially games that require strategy and thinking ahead. Playing checkers and chess, putting together a puzzle, or playing card games regularly have been proven to improve short-term memory and cognitive skills. Games also help critical reasoning skills necessary… Continue reading Linking Generations – Strathcona Christian Secondary Academy & Summerwood Village Retirement Residence Playing Games

Linking Generations Share and Care Programs allow our younger generations of students to visit regularly with seniors who are now in their latter stages of life and living in a long-term care facility. Students read their "easy readers" to our seniors or sit at a table playing snakes and ladders. Both activities bring the seniors so much joy, and a sense of belonging… Continue reading Linking Generations Share and Care Program – École Père Kenneth Kearns Catholic Elementary School & Capital Care Strathcona

Linking Generations and Ecole Pere Kenneth Kearns Elementary School (EPK) collaborated to assist Adopt A Senior Sherwood Park Program in the collection of Valentine Day Cards for Seniors in Care. Students each created a Valentines Day Card with shared messages of kindness and love so as to cheer our seniors in care facilities. Thank you… Continue reading Linking Generations and Ecole Pere Kenneth Kearns Elementary School (EPK) created 250 Valentines Cards for the Adopt A Senior Sherwood Park Program

Simply put, it’s a 60-second game – Participants attempt to see who can finish a challenge first or who can complete a task the most times in under a minute. The students of St. John Paul II Junior High School and the seniors from Heartland Housing Dr. Turner Lodge played games. Click here to see… Continue reading Linking Generations Students and Seniors play “Minute to Win It”

Simply put, it’s a 60-second game – Participants attempt to see who can finish a challenge first or who can complete a task the most times in under a minute. The students of St. Theresa Catholic School played games with the seniors of Christenson Developments Bedford Village! Click here to see more pictures !

Simply put, it’s a 60-second game – Participants attempt to see who can finish a challenge first or who can complete a task the most times in under a minute. The students of St. John Paul II Junior High School and the seniors from Heartland Housing Dr. Turner Lodge played games. Click here to see… Continue reading Linking Generations Students and Seniors play “Minute to Win It”

Playing games is a great way to let conversation start. These students and seniors from Linking Generations enjoyed playing games like Sorry, Jenga, Trouble, and card games. The students of St. Theresa Catholic School played games with the seniors of Christenson Developments Bedford Village! Click here to see more pictures !

The Volunteer Grandparent Program provides senior volunteers assignments in elementary schools in our community. Senior volunteers enjoy the chance to share life skills, knowledge and experience, while providing a valuable community service to our youth. Linking Generations Volunteer Grandparent Programs works in partnership with educators to develop, place and support volunteers in the Grandparent Program.… Continue reading Linking Generations Volunteer Grandparent Program 2023-2024

Thank you to the Fort Saskatchewan Rotary Club for your continued support for our Fort Saskatchewan Programs. Linking Generations is about stories. The stories that we hear from seniors and the stories that our students tell. This is the passing on of our local oral history and the new insights that youth can provide to… Continue reading Fort Saskatchewan Rotary Club continued support for Linking Generations Fort Saskatchewan Programs