It’s Planting Time! Linking Generations is very grateful to our wonderful partnership with Greenland Garden Centre. This year, Greenland ensured that our spring annuals were ready to go for our senior and student planting visits. Each team painted a terracotta pot and filled it with a different assortment of annuals. These will now stay with… Continue reading It’s Planting Time at Linking Generations
What are some of the first signs of Spring? What are some of your special memories of Spring as a child? What do you look forward to with the arrival of spring? Spring represents renewal and new beginnings – How do you celebrate Spring? If I had a flower for every time you made me… Continue reading Spring Has Arrived to Linking Generations
What is a Proverb? Proverbs , maxim are terms for short, pithy sayings. A proverb is such a saying popularly known and repeated, usually expressing simply and concretely, though often metaphorically, a truth based on common sense or the practical. Check out the pictures in the Gallery !!
What’s a Limerick? A limerick is a short, comical, and almost musical poem that can be particularly fun to read and to write. Limericks are often humorous, or border on nonsensical. Limericks consist of five lines. The rhyme scheme is aabba. In other words, Lines One, Two, and Five all rhyme with each other, and… Continue reading Linking Generations – Seniors from Summerwood Seniors Residence write Limericks with students from OLPH Junior High
“A person is known by the company he keeps….” …And you all have great company at your visit! Come play our Sayings & Proverbs Game! Seniors Test your knowledge and your students while reminiscing over common phrases. Check out the pictures in the Gallery !!
Linking Generations wishes to extend appreciation and utmost thanks to the Sherwood Park Rotary Club. It is always a pleasure to share our updates and news of our program operations. We look forward to our continued partnership.
What a great way to celebrate ! A wee bit of the Irish for St. Patrick's Day ... and playing games with each other. Students from Archbishop Jordan Catholic High School and their seniors from Chartwell Country Cottage Retirement Residence enjoyed their time together visiting, playing bingo, and enjoying a wee bit of St Patrick's… Continue reading Linking Generations – St Patrick’s Day with ABJ Students and Country Cottage Seniors
Seniors from Sherwood Care and Students from Salisbury High School, spend some quite moments together playing old fashion board games. These seniors are natural winners – they win by opening up to our youth and sharing those special moments that normally stay locked away ! Check out the pictures in the Gallery !!
B-I-N-G-O A game in which players mark off numbers on cards as the numbers are drawn randomly by a caller, the winner being the first person to mark off five numbers in a row or another required pattern. Students from Lakeland Ridge School were dressed up for the Howler Ball...a school dance in the afternoon.… Continue reading Linking Generations – Bingo with Silver Birch Manor and Lodge and Lakeland Ridge School
bin·go noun A game in which players mark off numbers on cards as the numbers are drawn randomly by a caller, the winner being the first person to mark off five numbers in a row or another required pattern. Get ready, get set …. B-I-N-G-O !!!! Check out the pictures in the Gallery !!
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