Earth Day Groceries Reports, 2006

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B BLAKELY
bblakely7@yahoo.com
Barstow Intermediate
Barstow, CA USA
 
We decorated 1000 bags!
About our project: 5TH GRADE COLORED BAGS IN THE CLASSROOM AND 6TH GRADE SCIENCE CLASSES MET TOGETHER IN THE MPR AND THE DAY WENT WONDERFULLY.
Report submitted on 4/13/2007

Stephanie Donovan
stephanie.donovan@wayne.k12.in.us
Garden City Elementary
Indianapolis, IN USA
 
We decorated 525 bags!
About our project: Garden City Elementary students drew their messages on 525 Chapel Hill O’Malia’s paper grocery sacks. Students “borrowed” paper bags and decorated them with pictures and messages about Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling. The sacks were then returned to O’Malia’s where they were used to bag their customers’ groceries on Earth Day, April 22nd. Messages in both English and Spanish gave ideas on how to care for the environment as, “Have a heart, Do your part-Pick up litter,” “Keep our water clean by picking up litter,” “Recycle plastic, cans, and paper,” and “If you cut down a tree, plant a new one.” Gator students had a ball spreading environmental awareness for their future and giving back to their community.

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Sallie Gentry
sallie_gentry@fws.gov
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge/USFWS
Folkston, GA USA
www.fws.gov/okefenokee
We decorated 600 bags!
About our project: I discovered this project last year while searching for ideas for our annual Earth Day Art Contest. Participation had dropped off and I was looking for a fresh idea. We were overwhelmed by the response! Approximately 600 bags were decorated and handed out by two of our local grocery stores. Special displays were created with selected bags. One bag was selected to have the art transferred to t-shirts given out to participants at our annual Earth Day Bicycle Tour on the refuge. The selected bag was then framed and presented to the student at one of the participating grocery stores by myself, the store manager and Charlie Charlton, mascot for Keep Charlton County Beautiful. The event was covered by our local media.

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Suzanne Ashmore
SAshmore@escambia.k12.fl.us
Bailey Middle
Pensacola, FL USA
 
We decorated 110 bags!
About our project: I asked one of my military parents to get some bags from the commisary since they were the only ones in our area that used them. The kids loved doing the project. The cashiers and baggers in the store were very excited to help us with getting the word out about Earth Day.
Report submitted on 3/27/2007

Elizabeth Mazzacco
emazzacco@spnet.k12.nj.us
Grant School
South Plainfield, NJ USA
 
We decorated 350 bags!
About our project: This is a wonderful project! Our students decorated over 300 bags! The students really enjoyed decorating the bags and the teachers found the project to be a wonderful way to create community involvement. Our local Stop and Shop donated all of the bags and were wonderful to work with! We can't wait to do this project again next year!
Report submitted on 2/23/2007

Elizabeth Stitz
ramseystitz@aol.com
Tisdale Elementary
Ramsey, NJ USA
 
We decorated 350 bags!
About our project: This was our first year and we are trying to encorporate the other elementary and secondary schools in our town this year. Wish us luck.
Report submitted on 1/9/2007

Janet Parcells

Pack 422
Manteca, CA USA
 
We decorated 100 bags!
About our project: Our Cub Scout troup became more aware of recycling by this hands on project. Thank you to our local Food4Less for donating the bags.
Report submitted on 1/4/2007

Martha Jackson
mjack830@hotmail.com
Amanda Gist Elem
Cotter, AR USA
 
We decorated 200 bags!
About our project: Our kids loved this project. The bags turned out really neat.

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Kiya Patrick
patrickk@mcohio.org
Montgomery County Solid Waste
Moraine, OH USA
www.mcswd.org
We decorated 10975 bags!
About our project: This is the sixth year we have coordinated the program for Montgomery County, Ohio schools and organizations. Kroger donated almost 11,000 bags from their central office. The bags were delivered to a Kroger store near our office. We picked up the bags and delivered them to the participants. Participating organizations decorated and delivered the bags to Kroger stores near them. Participants were: Adventure Central, Bishop Leibold, CF Holliday Elementary, Chaminade-Julienne High, Children's Medical Center, Corpus Christi, Cub Scout Pack 56, Demmitt Elementary, Frank Nicholas, Germantown Elm, Holy Angels School, Immaculate Conception, Incarnation School, Kemp Elem., Kiser Middle School, Meadowdale Elm, Monticello Elementary School, Mound Elementary, Neff Elementary, Nicholas Treatment Center, Northwood Elm, Our Lady of Rosary, Patterson Kennedy Elem., Saville Elementary, Schnell Elementary, St Albert School, St Peter, St Rita School, Union Elementary, Valerie Elementary, Wantz Middle School, Watts Middle School, West Carrollton High, Westbrook Elementary, Wilbur Wright and World of Wonder Community School.
Report submitted on 8/1/2006

Jamie Dickinson
kingtoma68@yahoo.com
San Carlos School
Monterey, CA USA
www.sancarlosschool.com
We decorated 256 bags!
About our project: This was our first year participating in this project. We really enjoyed this project and felt it was a great way to communicate with the community. Great idea!
Report submitted on 7/8/2006

Cheryl McConnell
gs_leader4081@yahoo.com
St. Luke's Lutheran School
Oviedo, FL USA
 
We decorated 400 bags!
About our project: I received an e-mail through the girl scouts about this activity and thought it was a great idea to get our whole school involved. I've approximated the number of bags and students involved. I actually picked up 500 bags from Publix and the art teacher had her students color them and she delivered them back to the store. The Publix chain of stores are very good at participating with the schools.

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Margie Holowach
Mrsbrownie817@yahoo.com
brownie troop 817
Sussex, NJ USA
 
We decorated 125 bags!
About our project: Our troop worked on these bags on their own and did a wonderful job. It was cute because they all ran to the store that morning to see who's bag they got. This was a great project for them for Earth Day. They were so creative in decorating their bags.
Report submitted on 6/25/2006

Bambi Corcoran
jlcorcoran@adelphia.net
We Feed 'Em Well 4-H Club
Chillicothe, OH USA
 
We decorated 25 bags!
About our project: It was the first time we had participated in this and the kids really enjoyed it!! We talked about Earth Day and then they colored their flyers and had so-o much fun.
Report submitted on 6/22/2006

Ronda Wright
wrightr@fortlee-boe.net
Ft. Lee School #2
Fort Lee, NJ USA
www.fortlee-boe.net
We decorated 400 bags!
About our project: This is our 4th year involved in the Earth Day bag project! Our entire school gets involved in the project. This year we displayed a few of our Earth Day bags at our 2006 district Science Fair!

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Mary Madigan
pmadiga1@optonline.net
Girl Scouts
Hicksville, NY USA
 
We decorated 350 bags!
About our project: Thanks to Sister Mary Anne and the art teacher Mrs. Parker all the students of St Ignatius Loyola in grades Nursery through 8th grade participated in the Groceries Project during Art Class. Each grade had a "theme" to decorate their bags. The bags were very bright and colorful. On Earth Day the Girl Scouts bagged groceries at Super Stop and Shop who also displayed some bags in the store for weeks.

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Tami Ross
thetamiross@yahoo.com
Peace Games at 186th Street School
Gardena (Los Angeles), CA USA
www.peacegames.org
We decorated 194 bags!
About our project: Earth Day Bag Report from 186th Street School-Rooms 15, 48 and Afterschool Program 1. Borrow -2nd Grade Class (Room 15) chose to decorate bags* and wrote a request letter to Trader Joe’s and Ralphs. -Teacher borrowed about 200 bags. (90 were special “Earth Day” bags from Ralphs with a blank side to decorate, a note to children, and an offer of 5 cents for returning decorated bags.) 2. Decorate -2nd Grade Students drew Earth scenes. -Teacher photocopied drawings in black and white on recycled paper, and made die-cut stencils of hearts and E-a-r-t-h. -2nd Grade Students painted 5 drawings each with watercolors, which we stapled to 100 bags. -Additional Students- 4th and 5th Graders (Room 48) and afterschool program participants used stencils and watercolors to decorate remaining bags. 3. Return -Teacher returned bags to stores on April 21st. Ralphs paid 5 cents per bag. The $4.50 reward was donated to charity, Guide Dogs of America, in the form of items from their wish list, toys and towels they will use to train service dogs for vision-impaired individuals. 4. Report This report is being submitted by a Peace Games Coordinator. Peace Games (www.peacegames.org) is a violence prevention program that empowers elementary school students. Peace Games looks forward to a day when all children have the knowledge and skills to be proactive “peacemakers”. We believe violence is learned and thus strive to teach peacemaking, just as students are taught to read, write, and do math. In their Peace Games classroom lessons, students are encouraged to do community service learning projects. *After hearing about Earth Day Bags, which I found in an Internet search, the 2nd graders of Room 15 surprised me with a unanimous agreement to decorate Earth Day Bags. Once they started the project, it was simple to get more students involved to complete the project in time for Earth Day. I believe that all our students who participated learned from this project that they were being peacemakers by helping their community and the Earth/environment and that it felt good to do so! I believe we will participate next year! We were unable to obtain permission slips for all students and thus are unable to post photos. Thank you for reading!
Report submitted on 6/15/2006

April Fernald
afernald@verizon.net
Walnut Elementary
Newbury Park, CA USA
 
We decorated 400 bags!
About our project: This was the first year Walnut Elementary School in Newbury Park, CA created Earth Day bags. We created 400 bags for the Earth Day bag project. Our teachers felt it was a great idea. Several of our Art Docents assisted with the project. Students and teachers had a lot of fun. It was a great opportunity for the students to give back to the community communicating an Earth Day message through art. We plan on doing it again next year. Thank you Trader Joe’s Market located on Avenida de los Arboles, Thousand Oaks, CA for donating the grocery bags.

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Rod Jackson
rod_jackson@gracelcms.com
Grace Lutheran Church & School
Jacksonville, FL USA
www.gracelcms.com
We decorated 500 bags!
About our project: The students of Grace Lutheran School as well as our Cub Scouts and our Girl Scouts affliated with our school all helped participate in this project. They all learned about Recycling and ways to help make this a cleaner world. By decorating the bags they also got the word out to all those that bought their groceries on Earth Day! What an awesome project and we look forward to doing it every year!
Report submitted on 6/4/2006

Kathrine Walter
yvc.kwalter@yahoo.com
elementary school
Shoreline, WA USA
 
We decorated 37 bags!
About our project: On one afternoon, 7 students decorated 37 grocery bags with Earth friendly tips. The youth enjoyed making them and we had a great time discussing the tips about the environment.
Report submitted on 6/1/2006

Cathy Lancaster
clancaster@fpl.info
Flint Public Library
Flint, MI USA
www.fpl.info
We decorated 36 bags!
About our project: This year we only had 1 evening to decorate the bags and were unable to have a class from the city come to help. The kids had a great time decorating and Kroger's was happy to display the bags. Looking forward to Earth Day 2007!
Report submitted on 5/30/2006