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School holds ‘Fun Across Canada’ games
Mac Olsen
for South Peace News
Students at Joussard
School enjoyed their
Fun Across Canada
games June 18, participating
in the Nova Scotia
Bluenoser Kickball,
the Alberta Rodeo Relay,
the Nunavut Fishing
Frenzy, the B.C.
Billy Goats Mountain
Challenge, the Assembling
the Great Lakes
sponge and water relay
race and Quebec
French Cricket.
“It’s about co-operation
and school spirit,”
says organizer and
Grade 5-6 teacher
Anastasia Jorquera.
“It’s also about being
the best you can be,”
she adds.
The older students
get to help the younger
students, she adds.
The students divided
into groups, with a mixture
of younger and
older children. Each
group took the name of
a province and created
one game for the event.
In the Billy Goats
Mountain Challenge, a
timed event, the students
wore a backpack
and climbed over and
through the playground
equipment.
In the Nunavut Fishing
Frenzy, the students
formed pairs and one
member ran in a
hula-hoop while the
other ran behind them,
like a dog sled team.
They had to run to a
hula-hoop filled with different
sizes of “fish”
and had three tries with
rods to pull them out.
Each fish had a different
point value.
The Alberta Rodeo
Relay consisted of four
pylons, a lasso, three
hurdles and target
shooting. Each student
mounted a stick horse
and went around the pylons,
stopped at the
“lasso” and threw up to
three hula-hoops at a
pylon, then jumped over
the hurdles and finished
by shooting four
foam balls at bulls-eyes
on a hockey net.
The Bluenoser
Kickball was like a regular
game of kickball,
but with small replicas
of the Nova Scotia flag
dotting the diamond.
The group which created
the game painted
their noses blue.
In the Assembling the
Great Lakes Game, the
students formed two
lines with large buckets
at both ends of the lines.
The students soaked
the sponges at one end,
passed them down the
lines and the students
at the other end rung
them out, then took
them back to the start
and repeated the process.
The team with the
most water in their
bucket at the end won
the game.
The students played
French Cricket using a
tennis racket and a
dodge ball.
The Fun Across Canada
event started at 11
a.m. and the teams rotated
through the
games every 30 minutes.
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Jaden Giroux has fun in the Alberta Rodeo Relay.
She was with the Alberta All Stars Team. |
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In the photo tothe left,
Kennedy Sutherland,
left, and Destin Willier
try to “fish” during the
Nunavut Fishing
Frenzy. |
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Delany Lauck put on the backpack and went
through the B.C. Billy Goats Mountain Challenge. |
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Lezane Okimaw, in front, and Tristin Chalifoux participate
in Assembling the Great Lakes. |
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Mythias Giroux, 7, takes his turn in the Nova Scotia
Bluenoser Kickball event. |
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