OLOL Junior Students Celebrate A Fun FROSTY Day!

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OLOL Junior Students Celebrate A Fun FROSTY Day!

Written by admin on 14 February 2012

Teams listen intently to the instructions for their next challenging activity. Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

This team member was quite surprised to see the art they had created while blindfolded - all the kids had impressive skills even with their eyes covered! WAY TO GO!! Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

MANITOUWADGE, ON – Friday, February 10^th Frosty Days, Manitouwadge’s Annual Winter Carnival, was scheduled to begin with activities planned at each of the 4 local schools until Mother Nature decided to throw a curve ball – or maybe a snow ball would be a better description. Though residents had, until this past weekend, enjoyed an untypically mild winter, Frosty Days kicked off with a frigid Friday forcing the Kiwissa Ski Centre, as well as most outdoor activities at local schools cancelled. Cancellations included the outdoor activities which senior students (Grades 4 through 8) at Our Lady of Lourdes school had been looking forward to, most of these classes finding other, creative ways to recognize the special day.

The afternoon’s plans for Junior and Senior Kindergarten through Grade 3 classes had been primarily indoor activities anyways however and so these were extended to include indoor fun through their regular afternoon recess, keeping the kids safe from frostbite or other risks which would have accompanied playing in the below -20°C temps outside.

Students gathered in the gymnasium where Ms. Gorges and Mme. Campbell, with the help of other teachers and parents in attendance, split the kids into teams and announced their group names which were in following with the winter carnival theme; The Crazy Carpets, The Snowbanks, Snowball Troupe, Snowflakes and similar fun titles had the kids roaring with cheers and laughter before a single game even started!

The first challenge they would face, building snowmen… Remember of course they were indoors and so their clever teachers had come up with variations to all the kids favourite outdoor winter activities. This first had them, one at a time,

Facing a large piece of paper on the wall on which were drawn stacked snowballs – perfect for a snowperson but missing its details;
Picking a snowperson body-part from a bag;
Being blindfolded;
Receiving a marker;
Drawing the body-part they had chosen from the bag;
Giggling & cheering on their team-mates

All teams having completed their challenge admired their work and that of other teams before taking photos, as a team, with their masterpieces.

Backwards beanbag fun! Senior Kindergarten Emeraude tries peeking over her shoulder to land her bean bags. Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

Alyssa lands a 15 point toss without even glancing back! WOW! Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

Yet another friend with serious beanbag skills - these teams were unstoppable, it's no surprise it ended in a 5-way tie for first place! Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

Parent and teacher Lisa Whiteway helps one of her team members collect her beanbags for the toss. Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

Next up was a bean bag toss, again with a special twist following the ‘Frosty Days” theme. there were three large circles (made of a hoola-hoop and/or masking tape) one above the other, the children would, one at a time with their back to the circles, toss one bean bag at a time over their shoulder or head behind them to score 5, 10 or 15 points depending on the circle in which their bean bag landed. The student then reclaimed the 3 bean bags they threw during their turn, handed them over to the team mate next in line and took their place at the back of the line. The kids enjoyed this game very much and so they continued to play until it was announced that the game was over and it was time to determine who had earned the highest score as an adult volunteer in each group had been keeping count on their trusty clipboard. Image their surprise when, one after another each team-leader announced their total score of ONE-HUNDRED-FORTY-FIVE (145) !! What a wonderful coincidence!

This set the tone well for yet another challenging team activity. Teams lined up next to each other in front of 2 pilons about 15 feet appart. Each team had a spoon and a’snowball‘ or ‘egg’ (actually a ping-pong ball) for one team-mate at a time to balance, holding the spoon with just one hand, as they walked as quickly as possible to the opposing pilon and back before handing the spoon & ‘snowball’ over to the next friend in line. This game to was a big hit, the kids finding the bounciness of their ‘egg’/’snowballs’ quite amusing!

"Skating" around Mrs.Campbell's rink. Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

EVERYONE really enjoyed skating, boys, girls, parents, teachers - it was a huge hit! Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

Some were 'figure skating' others practicing their 'hockey skating' moves... Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

There were a few more activities that rounded off the afternoon including quite a bit of ‘skating’ on Mrs. Campbell’s interior rink (sheets of paper under foot served as skates on the gymnasium floor, a.k.a. the ‘rink’) but the most popular by far was a Snowball fight which involved paper snowballs and just two teams who enthusiastically tried to send more snowballs on the opposing team’s side of the gym. Finally it was time for a snack as everyone had worked up quite an appetite. The students re-grouped at the lunch stop where each found:

a cup of chocolate milk,
3 large marshmallows;
mini chocolate chips;
2 pretzel sticks
a popsicle stick to help with using their white icing ‘glue’

with this they built their snowperson snacks before a few photos and YUM! the snowpeople were history.

Friends + Marshmallows = FROSTY DAYS FUN at OLOL!! Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

More super-marshmallow-yummyness... Were they as yummy as they were well-crafted? These gentlemen said YES! Definately! Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

The time to go home had come with everyone quite tuckered out and thouroughly prepared to enjoy a great Frosty Days weekend which would begin later in the evening with Opening Ceremonies at Kiwissa. CLICK HERE to read about that and the 2011 Citizen of the Year announced Friday evening.

**PLEASE NOTE: Video from the OLOL Frosty Days afternoon fun will be posted Tuesday evening check back after then to see all the ACTION!

MORE INFO

Learn more about Catholic Education in Northwestern Ontario

Read about the Manitouwadge Public School’s 2012 Frosty Days activities
Read about Manitouwadge 2012 Frosty Days Opening Ceremonies (inlc. 2011 Citizen of the Year presentation)

: Parent and teacher Lisa Whiteway helps one of her team members collect her beanbags for the toss. Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

: Yet another friend with serious beanbag skills – these teams were unstoppable, it’s no surprise it ended in a 5-way tie for first place! Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

: This team member was quite surprised to see the art they had created while blindfolded – all the kids had impressive skills even with their eyes covered! WAY TO GO!! Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

: Teams listen intently to the instructions for their next challenging activity. Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

: Alyssa lands a 15 point toss without even glancing back! WOW! Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

: Backwards beanbag fun! Senior Kindergarten Emeraude tries peeking over her shoulder to land her bean bags. Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

: “Skating” around Mrs.Campbell’s rink. Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

: EVERYONE really enjoyed skating, boys, girls, parents, teachers – it was a huge hit! Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

: Some were ‘figure skating’ others practicing their ‘hockey skating’ moves… Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com

: More super-marshmallow-yummyness… Were they as yummy as they were well-crafted? These gentlemen said YES! Definately! Photo OntarioNewsNorth.com