Montgomery County school retirees donate school supply kits to kids

Joan Donovan, a former Laytonsville Elementary School fourth grade teacher for 35 years, cleaned more than 10,000 bottle caps in her bathtub this summer.

Donovan said the bottle caps are trash to most people, but valuable learning tools to incoming kindergarten students learning to sort and count. So the bottle caps joined rulers, crayons, magnetic letters, play-doh and alphabet cards in school supply kits given by the Montgomery County Public School Retirees Association to more than 1,000 incoming kindergarten students attending schools in low-income areas.