{"id":22337,"date":"2014-06-16T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T18:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=22337"},"modified":"2014-06-16T14:34:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T18:34:02","slug":"patton-students-build-chairs-for-kindergarteners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=22337","title":{"rendered":"Patton students build chairs for kindergarteners"},"content":{"rendered":"

Year-long project culminates in a series of in-person deliveries<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Kindergarten students from Hillendale Elementary School with the new chairs, hand-made by seventh and eighth grade students at Patton Middle School, after the older students delivered them in person earlier this month.<\/p><\/div>\n

PENNSBURY \u2014 It was a special, end of the year, chance for some Patton Middle School students to give back \u2014 to other, younger students.<\/p>\n

More than 50 Charles Patton Middle School students helped in the designing, building and painting of “Kinder chairs” that were delivered to each of the Unionville-Chadds Ford School District elementary schools earlier this month.<\/p>\n

The chair delivery \u2014 which the middle school students able to directly interact with kindergartners \u2014 was the final step\u00a0 a year-long cooperative project between Patton\u2019s Technology Education, led by teacher Jason Palo, and the Art Department, led by Ann Ferron.<\/p>\n

One fun detail is that many of the students were able to present chairs to the elementary school \u2014 and even the same kindergarten class \u2014 they attended some years ago.<\/p>\n

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It seems like all of these Hillendale kindergarten students wanted to try sitting on their new Husky chair.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cI think our kids are well known for giving back to the greater community,\u201d Palo said. \u201cBut this was a great opportunity to give back to the school community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The chairs got their distinctive shapes (all were unique, related to subject matter) through student work in the Tech Ed. department. Once the chairs were built, they went to the Art Department to get a custom, one-of-a-kind paint job.<\/p>\n

At each of the four elementary schools, the middle school students brought in the chairs with covers (provided with assistance from Patton\u2019s Family Consumer Science department) and had the kids guess what the chairs represented. As an example, at Hillendale, where the school mascot is a husky dog, there were a couple of variations on that theme, along with other animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Year-long project culminates in a series of in-person deliveries PENNSBURY \u2014 It was a special, end of the year, chance for some Patton Middle School students to give back \u2014 to other, younger students. More than 50 Charles Patton Middle School students helped in the designing, building and painting of “Kinder chairs” that were delivered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[1982,7428,5704],"class_list":["post-22337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-hillendale-elementary-school","tag-patton-middle-school","tag-unionvill-echadds-ford-school-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}