HONOLULU (KHON2) -- The Laulima Giving Program has a growing number of partners, including public schools. We now have five schools that have adopted and integrated into their teachings, the value of laulima to help others in need. Get Hawaii's latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You The morning started with a song and dance for parents and grandparents. Nearly 150 first-graders at Keone'ula Elementary School in Ewa Beach sat with them, got creative and learned a little math crafting ornaments. KHON2 Hosts Annual Laulima Telethon to Support Hawaii Families in Need "This is a great way to show kids how to compose and decompose shapes by creating these one-of-a-kind ornaments," said Nicole Duldulao first grade teacher at Keone'ula Elementary. The ornaments serve an even bigger purpose, each dedicated to a child in need, with a boy or girl and the age written on the back. They're hung on the school Christmas tree where parents, teachers, staff and the community take one, buy a gift for that child then bring it back to the school. "Just like Laulima, it's hands working together, helping together. That's what we're doing here, we're coming together, we're working together and helping each other out for the betterment of our community," Duldulao added. "I think it's so special that we can do this together, my daughter and I, that we can make these projects and help out kids at the same time and give to others in the community," said Joanna Udasco, mother of one first grader. The only thing more beautiful than this was to see the tree grow bare over three weeks with each ornament replaced with a donated gift to be picked up by Laulima and destined for the hands of children in need. Check out more news from around Hawaii "This is something that we want them to take away and keep doing for the rest of their lives. Our hope is that this will spark some small memory in their mind and they'll go ahead and keep sharing and helping out their community." "There's going to be a lot of people going to make everybody to get all the ornaments and all the presents. Thank you for doing this today," said Mason Takaki and Prince Brown, first graders at Keone'ula Elementary School