Taylor Road Middle School dturco@trms.k12.fulton.ga.net
5150 Taylor Road Fax (770) 740-7062
Alpharetta, GA 30202 USA Voice (770) 740-7090
URL http://trms.k12.ga.net/~dturco/
Hi! This is Oxford Elementary School,Claremont N,C. On Earth Day we decorated over 500 bags! We decorated the bags for Lowes Foods.We also decorated them for Food Lion. They said stuff like, the three R's, Reduce Reuse, Recycle! They also said , save the earth, dont be a litter bug. And Happy Earth Day.
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Rose_Bulau@catawba.k12.nc.us
Students at Ramsey Elementary decorated 1200 grocery bags to be used at LeTourneau's Super Value Store in Ramsey. A group of fifth graders also made a banner to be hung in the store window. The owner of the store started using the bags on Monday and plans to use them all week or until they are gone, whichever comes first.
Gordy Sironen (sironen@anoka.k12.mn.us)
Ramsey Elementary
Ramsey, MN
Thurgood Marshall Middle School again enjoyed participating in this years Earth Day Grocery Bag project. The Reid /Bennett/Hackstadt 7th grade team, the West/Hoonan 8th grade team, the Horton/Wells 8th grade team, and the McKechnie/Havens multi-age teams decorated 322 bags for our local Westside Safeway store.
Virginia Reid (vreid@osd.wednet.edu)
Thurgood Marshall Middle School
http://kids.osd.wednet.edu/Marshall/
Olympia, Washington
Students at Poulsbo Elementary School decorated 426 grocery bags. They were passed out at Poulsbo Market Place to celebrate Earth Day.
Nancy Bale (nbale@orca.esd114.wednet.edu)
Poulsbo Elementary
18531 Noll Road N.E.
Poulsbo, WA
I'd heard of your project in previous years, but maybe it was the Learning Space connection that just got me inspired this time.
Here at Lake Stickney Elementary (Mukilteo School District), students in all grades (except 4th - too busy preparing for WASL) decorated bags for the nearby Albertson's. We turned over about 440 bags to the store on Earth Day morning. The clerks immediately started going through and reading all the messages!
Thanks for launching such an easy and fun project.
Thom Garrard GARRARDT%A1%MSD2%MR@MSD3.MUKILTEO.WEDNET.EDU
5th grade teacher
Hello! This is our first year with the Earth Day project.We really had a great time with this project. We are a small school located about 45 minutes southwest of Columbus, Ohio. We are a K-8 school with our Jr. High and High school building attached. We have about 450 students in the Elementary, offering both traditional and multiage classes. This year the 6 multiage classes participated in the project. We decorated 123 bagsfor our local IGA store(Chet's IGA). We hope to have more classes participate next year. Great project!!
Kelly Logan logank@mburg.woco.ohio.gov
1-2 multiage
Dohron Wilson Elementary
http://www.mburg.woco.ohio.gov
60 High St.
Mechanicsburg, Ohio 43044
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Dear Earth Day Grocery Project Organizers:
Kruse Cares!
In partnership with our local Jewel/Osco Store, students received paper grocery bags to distribute in classrooms to decorate for Earth Day 1998. Kruse Education Center is part of Community Consolidated School District 146 incorporating sections of Orland Park and Tinley Park, Illinois. Our student population is 452.
Our students decorated a total of 437 grocery bags for Earth Day 1998! 21 classrooms participated in the event, including students from Kindergarten through 6th grade. Students included individual messages on the bags that showed that Kruse students really care about our earth. They learned that part of being earth conscious is to share their message with the community. Students were very proud of their work. Student Council officers delivered the brightly decorated bags to the grocery store in time for Earth Day distribution.
This is the first year Kruse Education Center participated in this great project. Thanks for starting this great idea! We look forward to participating again next year.
Debbie Brennan Brende04@ccsd146.k12.il.us
The students at Amelia Earhart Elementary in Lafayette, Indiana had a lot of fun decorating grocery bags. We made this a school wide project and decorated 464 bags!
Lesley Dause (ldause@lsc.k12.in.us)
Amelia Earhart Elementary
Lafayette, Indiana
Our class decorated 23 grocery bags for earth day. We really enjoyed the activity as well as being able to encourage others to take care of our planet for everyone who will be living here for years to come.
Mrs. Riney's Class (lriney@washington.k12.ky.us)
Willisburg Elementary School
Willisburg, Kentucky
After watching a short video on the history of Earth Day during our regularly scheduled weekly media/library classes, we searched the internet for more information on Earth Day. That's when we discovered the Earth Day Groceries Project! Students were eager to participate. The AAFES Shopette on Ft. Clayton donated 75 bags for our kindergarden students to decorate. First to fifth grade students decorated brown paper bags from the local Army Commissary. A total of 685 bags were decorated for Earth Day!
Anita Seifert (anita_b._seifert@odedodea.edu)
Curundu Elementary School
http://curundu.odedodea.edu/directory.htm
Rep of Panama, Dep. of Defense Dependent Schools
This was a great project. Our school is decorating 500 bags to be used at Publix. This has made our students more aware of how they can make a difference in making their world a better place to live.
Carla Sisk (sisk@forsyth.k12.ga.us)
Midway Elementary
Alpharetta, Georgia
My Kindergarten class decorated the bags from a local Albertsons grocery store and then we walked to the store to deliver the bags. Along the way we collected litter and put them in some clear plastic bags. The store manager was enthusiastic and welcomed us! He then let the children go to the produce area and pick out one piece of fruit to eat on our trip back to school! We colored 30 bags and hope the community enjoyed them. They were darling! One of the students thought it would be funny if her mom actually got "her" bag back! Thank you! We had fun and the students learned about keeping our Earth clean!
Michele Severo MAS0316@aol.com
Kindergarten Teacher
Woodcrest Preschool
Newbury Park, CA
As rookies to this Earthly project, we had only two days to complete it. We are proud to report that our school designed 560 grocery bags that were distributed by our Sterk's Supermarket. Thanks to them and to Arbor Heights Elementary School.
Kay Sarti (kaysarti@jorsm.com)
Lafayette Elementary
Hammond, Indiana
Hi! We would like to add our results to your tally for 1998. The students at Inverness Elementary School in Inverness, Nova Scotia Canada decorated 316 paper bags for their Earth Day Project this year.There are 270 students from Primary to Grade 6 in this school. The staff and students were very excited about this project and Bonny Dixon was the coordinator of the project and wanted to prove how quickly a project of this type could be done. From start to finish in organizing this project we only had three days and this was the result of our effort. I also took pictures as well the local paper took photos and they were the talk of the community today when consumers went shopping. What a great idea. If any more information is required you can contact me Bonny Dixon at the address below. The students are really excited about seeing their results listed on your site.
Regards,
Bonny Dixon bonnydixon@ctp.auracom.com
Sedona, Arizona area schools report 1760 earthday bags decorated and distributed by area stores today!!!!
5 Stores involved: Safeway, Bashas, New Frontiers, Connolly's Sedona Market, and IGA Webers
Decorating Participants: 14 Schools involved including 3 Public Schools: Sedona Red Rock High School, West Sedona Elementary School, Big Park Elementary, 9 Charter Schools and private schools, 2 boarding schools, and one Boy's & Girls Club.
jones@sedona.net
Our school decorated 200 hundred bags. In my classroom we also took the opportunity to to visit a nearby forest preserve. The forest ranger explained to us what we can do to take care of the forest. Thanks for organizing such a fun project.
Cristina Gillanders (cristigill@aol.com)
C.I.Johnson School
Aurora, Illinois
This is the second year that the Hudson Public Schools have participated. This year four schools decorated 1200 bags. These were distributed on Earth Day with the help of our local Victory Supermarket. The students had a wonderful time with this project and the store manager was very impressed with their work. Thanks for the great idea.
Kathy Harrity harrity@meol.mass.edu
Hudson Public Schools
Hudson, MA
The second grade students at D.P.E.S. decorated 181 bags for Food World. It was a quick, easy, and meaningful activity. We hope to participate again next year!
Nancy Dicks (dpes1@bellsouth.net)
Daniel Pratt Elementary School
Prattville, Alabama
We had a great time with this school wide project! We partnered with Price Chopper and decorated 500 grocery sacks. The staff really liked this project too!
June McQuitty (jmcquitty@aol.com)
Knotts Environmental Studies Magnet K-5
7301 Jackson, Kansas City, MO 64132
Mrs. Marie Maierhofer, principal of Stockdale Elementary, introduced this project a few weeks ago. There were 479 bags decorated, with the help of students from kindergarten to sixth grade. It was a great project! We cannot wait until next year.
Roxanne Seidel (roxys@axs4u.net)
6th grade teacher
Stockdale Jr. High, Stockdale Elementary
Stockdale, TX
This is our first year participating in the Earth Day Groceries Project and it was great! Two of our local grocers were more than willing to donate the brown bags. Central Fruit in Central Falls donated approximately 25 bags and the Family Marketplace in Pawtucket donated 500 bags!! Our junior high students were able to decorate 481 of those bags! Even our Assistant Principal decorated one. The bags look great! We look forward to participating in this project next year!!
Michelle Lewandowski (globalauto@ids.net)
Central Falls Jr./Sr. High
Central Falls, R.I.
Students at Lakes Elementary in grades K-6 participated in this great project. We had 23 classes working on the bags. We delivered a total of 500 bags to our local Safeway on Yelm Highway. Thanks Safeway for working with us!
Kenna Skillings-Duchesneau (tkcole@ibm.net)
Lakes Elementary
Olympia, WA
The whole school decorated bags for a local bagel shop. All the children from K-5 really enjoyed decorating the bags. I have not gotten comments from the public yet as to how it was received. It was lots of fun! We decorated 500 bags.
MaryBeth Gallo (MARIKIN@aol.com)
Watertown, Connecticut
Judson School
This is the third year that Cottage Lake Elementary, in Woodinville WA, has participated in this great project. Three 5th grade classes and our Multi-age classes decorated and delivered 367 bags to our local Safeway and they were distributed on April 22nd. Thank you for continuing to organize the information and for keeping us updated. The graphs are terrific!
Nikki McGrath nikki_mcgrath@qgate.norshore.wednet.edu
The Dover Township Juniorettes (young women ages 11-18) decorated 100 bags. Please add our name to your totals.
Dover Township Juniorettes bamj@bellatlantic.net
P.O. Box 5333
Toms River, New Jersey 08753
Happy Earth Day! The grocery bag project was a great idea. We had a terrific time creating bags with environmentally aware slogans and illustrations. Some of the kids did a fantastic job; I wanted to go to the grocery store to get one of their bags! The local supermarket was very generous with the supplies. I hope next year when I have my own classroom to do the project again! Maybe more teachers will get their students involved with the Earth Day project. Lesson plans to write and units to develop....have to go! Celebrate the earth and don't hurt the dirt!
Thanks Again,
Paulette Pallo ppallo@falcon.lhup.edu
Student Teacher
Fifth Grade
Mill Hall Elementary School
Mill Hall, PA 17751
300 bags were decorated and given back to the Provigo store close to our school. I am amxious to find out tomorrow how many parents went to get groceries in their children's Earth Day bags.
sharon meehan (internationale@videotron.com)
Greenfield Park Primary International School
Greenfield Park, Quebec
Greetings from Brownsville, Texas. Some of our K-5th Grade students decorated a total of 185 bags for HEB on Southmost Road. This was the first time we participated in the project. The students really enjoyed themselves and were excited to share their concerns for the earth with others. Wonderful idea. We look forward to participating next year.
Reynaldo Garza Elementary drcardenas@ies.net
Brownsville, Texas
