BRIEF: Elderton Elementary Students mold gifts for seniors

The students watched as the teachers poured warm soap in liquid form into molds, while adding glitter and trinkets.

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Dec. 15--Holiday trinkets, glitter and creative first-graders were the ingredients Monday in a project for the Elderton Senior Center.

Elderton Elementary teachers Jill Tedesco and Alicia Donatelli led their students in a soap-making activity yesterday afternoon that highlighted science and character lessons. Thirty bars of holiday-themed soap made by the students will be given as gifts at the senior center Wednesday.

"They were so fascinated with this whole lesson," Donatelli said.

The students watched as the teachers poured warm soap in liquid form into molds, while adding glitter and trinkets. The soaps had begun to harden during the end of the activity, and students popped the finished products from the molds, Tedesco said. Students will wrap the soaps in preparation for delivery to the senior center.

The giving spirit fits in with character education lessons throughout the year in all Armstrong School District classrooms, Tedesco said. December's theme is "Celebrate Community, Family and Friends."

Renatta Signorini can be reached at rsignorini@tribweb.com or 724-543-1303, ext. 219.

Credit: The Leader-Times, Kittanning, Pa.

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