Earth Day Groceries Reports, 2008

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Susan Armstrong Richard
sggraphics@charter.net
Velma Hamilton Middle School/Van Hise Elementary
Madison, WI USA
 
We decorated 320 bags!
About our project: Every Thursday is EARTH DAY for Hamilton’s EARTH CLUB! They are raising money to install a $5,000 Solar Panel system on their school. The club’s goal is to reduce the school's carbon pollution output. They want to set an example for other schools, businesses and homes that everyone can make a difference to help the environment and stop global warming! Fundraising for the solar panels project has included collecting boxtops, selling bracelets and tee-shirts, and holding an all-school dance. EARTH CLUB will host a booth at VHE’s “Going Green - Science Night” on Earth Day April, 22nd 2008. EARTH CLUB and Van Hise Elementary also participated in the 14th annual Earth Day Grocery Bag project. Decorating hundreds of grocery bags—courtesy of Metcaffe’s Sentry—with environmental messages. On Earth Day, April 22, 2008 these bags will be used to bag the groceries of Sentry shoppers. The people in our neighborhood will get a very clear and positive message that the students at our school care about their environment.

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Emilia Dinca
armandia50@yahoo.com
gen. nr.4
Bistrita, Romania
scgen4bistrita@yahoo.com
We decorated 36 bags!
About our project: We loved decorating our grocery bags for EarhDay, and sharing our messages about conservation an recycling.
Report submitted on 5/10/2008

Alison MacCary
Amaccary@swr.k12.ny.us
Miller Avenue School
Shoreham, NY USA
 
We decorated 500 bags!
About our project: The store gave us a poster with happy customers holding up the bags. The owner liked the bags so much, he spread out the distrobution over two weeks, so they would last longer. It was a success all around. The messages that the kids came up with were inspiring!
Report submitted on 5/8/2008

Mark Ahlness
mahlness@comcast.net
Arbor Heights Elementary
Seattle, WA USA
arborheights.com
We decorated 337 bags!
About our project: The fantastic students at Arbor Heights teamed up with our local Safeway one more time for Earth Day. This was our 16th consecutive year in partnership, as we started a year before the Earth Day Groceries Project started. We had a contest for the best looking bags from a classroom, and the winners were: for k-1, Mrs. Long's first graders, for 2-3, Mrs. Shavey's 2nd graders (again!!), and for 4-5, Mrs. Kennewick's 5th graders. Each of those classrooms received a $30 gift card to Safeway (for an Earth Day party!). Many thanks to our PTSA for funding the prizes! We will have pictures available soon, but there is a short video of our bag delivery to Safeway on the "Pictures" page - click on the icon below. Thanks again, Safeway!

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Alicia Howes
aliciah@oportunidad.org
La Oportunidad, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN USA
www.oportunidad.org
We decorated 150 bags!
About our project: La Oportunidad, Inc. is a non-profit agency that serves the Latino community. Three of us teach an after school program called El Camino (The Path) for children grades K-5 in four different Minneapolis Public Schools. All ten of our classes decorated these bags as we talked about the many ways we can help our community. Our bilingual bags were displayed at the Lake Street Rainbow Foods the weekend before Earth Day which is where we also organized a food drive with the help of Steve Johnson, the director of the store. Just one more way to help our community! This project was a great way to motivate our kids to help the earth, and they learned that it starts in their very own neighborhood. See you next year!

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Kristina Villena
kvillena@powayusd.com
Sunset Hills Elementary
San Diego, CA USA
 
We decorated 300 bags!
About our project: This was the first year our school participated in the project. The day after Earth Day, we got a letter from a member of the community who had received one of our bags. "My husband came home from Stater Brothers that day with his groceries in some of the most beautiful bags I've ever seen. Each grocery bag was a one of a kind masterpiece, evidently created with incredible love for our planet and others. I only know the names of a few of the artists but I wanted them to know how their gifts to our family (and the Earth!) impacted us. I was overwhelmed with such happiness when I first saw them that I nearly cried in joy!" Thanks for such a great project!
Report submitted on 5/7/2008

Sarah Weaver

Grady Elementary School
Tampa, FL USA
 
We decorated 800 bags!
About our project: We partnered with Publix Supermarkets across the street and decorated 800 bags. Each child grades 1-5 decorated 2 bags each, with the PreK & K only decorating 1 bag each. The kids really felt involved and learned a good lesson about recycling and protecting our Earth.
Report submitted on 5/7/2008

Monique Coyle
coyle@palmbeach.k12.fl.us
Hidden Oaks Elementary
Lake Worth, FL USA
 
We decorated 1000 bags!
About our project: Hidden Oaks had a great experience writing Earth Day messages and designing beautiful artwork on the bags! We loved this opportunity, so thanks!!
Report submitted on 5/6/2008

Tayo McGuirk
tayomcguirk@yahoo.com
Smith Renaissance School of the Arts
Denver, CO USA
 
We decorated 350 bags!
About our project: Students at Smith Renaissance School of the Arts, an urban public school in Denver, Colo., combined their love of the arts with their love of the environment by participating in the grocery project for the first time. All 350 students in grades K-5 decorated the bags during art classes and then members of the student council delivered the bags to a neighborhood King Soopers grocery store. The designs were colorful and the environmental messages were scrawled in English and in Spanish. As a result of their participation in the grocery project, students have been inspired to do other things to help with the effort to keep our earth green, such as their newly formed "clean up club" which cleans up garbage in the neighborhood, weekly. Smith elementary can't wait to participate again next year!

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Cathi Taylor
moonpie1993@sbcglobal.net
Shelton GIrl Scouts
Shelton, CT USA
 
We decorated 1000 bags!
About our project: The bags, supplied by Shelton Stop & Shop, were distributed at our SU meeting and we had girl scouts from all over the city, from Daisy's to Cadettes, participating. Our girls love the opportunity to showcase their artistic talents, and spread the very important message of Earth Day. Then, they flock to the supermarket to see their handiwork!

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Cheryl Vourvoulas
cvourvoulas@bcps.org
Norwood ES
Dundalk, MD USA
 
We decorated 600 bags!
About our project: Norwood ES, Baltimore County, MD was recently given “Green School“ status. So Mrs. Vourvoulas’ and many other classrooms joined the Grocery Bag project this year. They decorated over 600 brown grocery bags with Earth Day slogans; such as “Clean up our Earth” and “Don’t waste water”. The decorated bags were returned to the Giant Food Stores on Merritt Boulevard, Golden Ring Road, and Belair Road for distribution on Earth Day, Saturday, April 22. Special thanks once again to the Giant for eagerly letting us borrow those bags for the project. This is their third year sponsoring our school. We hope the customers enjoyed getting an Earth Day message from Norwood Elementary School.

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Laurie Angel
laurie.angel@wv.kyschools.us
Walton-Verona Elementary
Verona, KY USA
wv.kyschools.us
We decorated 700 bags!
About our project: What began as a 5th grade Earth Day project turned into a schoolwide project involving all students K-6. The students were thrilled to participate and did an awesome job on their Earth Day bags. Our thanks to Krogers for supplying and distributing the bags on Earth Day!

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Stacy Belson
sbelson@battle-creek.k12.mi.us
Northwestern Middle School
Battle Creek, MI USA
 
We decorated 100 bags!
About our project: We were studying electricity, so we took the theme of conserving electricity with our bags. The kids brainstormed ideas first and then took off with their bags. They turned out wonderful and our nearby grocery store (Felpausch)gave them out.
Report submitted on 5/5/2008

Alison Brennan
kirbymax1@earthlink.net
Edgewood Elementary
Marysville, OH USA
 
We decorated 150 bags!
About our project: Great project!!
Report submitted on 5/5/2008

Cissy Cohen
ccohen@atlanta.k12.ga.us
Garden Hills Elementary
Atlanta, GA USA
www.gardenhillselementary.com
We decorated 550 bags!
About our project: Wow, we had the best time creating our bags. Most of the students started with a 'flattened' earth template. From there the sky was the limit! We had everything from a happy earth to Stewie (Family Guy) with a soiled diaper! Jeff the manager at the Publix was generous and offered them to customers on Earth Day. One of the students said that the 'lit up board' there told everyone about the bags. Thank you for the opportunity to share. Next year we'll try to expand our bag making.

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VULPE DANIELA
vulpedaniela@yahoo.com
PRIMARY SCHOOL No. 2 PESTEANA-JIU,BILTENI, GORJ
PESTEANA-JIU,BILTENI,GORJ, CO Romania
 
We decorated 9 bags!
About our project: 22nd April-LAND day The pupils of the third grade from the Primary School No2 Pesteana-Jiu, Bilteni, Gorj decorated paper bags of different sizes and colours with drawings representing the Earth and with echological messages. The bags were delivered to the grocery's manager, being used on 22nd of April, the Land Day ( Earth Day) in order to pack their products.

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VULPE DANIELA
vulpedaniela@yahoo.com
PRIMARY SCHOOL No. 2 PESTEANA-JIU,BILTENI, GORJ
PESTEANA-JIU,BILTENI,GORJ, Romania
 
We decorated 0 bags!
About our project: 22nd April-LAND day The pupils of the third grade from the Primary School No2 Pesteana-Jiu, Bilteni, Gorj decorated paper bags of different sizes and colours with drawings representing the Earth and with echological messages. The bags were delivered to the grocery's manager, being used on 22nd of April, the Land Day ( Earth Day) in order to pack their products.

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Zaq Gallion
zaqg@bgclub.com
Boys & Girls Club of the Wausau Area
Wausau, WI USA
www.bgclub.com
We decorated 135 bags!
About our project: I think this project was great. The kids, administration and the communty really enjoyed doing this project. I had staff and members and thier frinds and family going to the store to buy grocery just to get the bags. We plan to do it agian in the up coming years.
Report submitted on 5/5/2008

Madhu Khanna
dpsjankipuram@rediffmail.com

Lucknow, UP India
dpsfamily.org
We decorated 40 bags!
About our project: On 19th April 2008 Class VI Students made 40 paper bags laced with the eco friendly slogans glorifying Mother Earth. These bags were then handed over to the stationary selling points like the ‘Universal Book Sellers’ and a famous city restaurant for conveying their message of saving Earth amongst the masses.

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Ruthann Paul-Suess
ruthann.suess@ocps.net
Metrowest Elementary
Orlando, FL USA
 
We decorated 100 bags!
About our project: My gifted classes teamed up with 2 ESOL 4th grade classes to talk about Earth Day, and the Grocery Bag project. My students showed the others how to decorate them, what should be on them, and why we are doing this. Ms. Suess traveled to Publix Markets in Ocoee, Fl. to talk with the Store managers and they were delighted to participate. When she brought all of those bags, the Manager, Mr. Jay Thompson, said " they went right away, and the customers were so surprised to see the bags all decorated, and loved the messages for Earth Day." As many of the bags stated, "Earth Day should be everyday, not just recognized on April 22!"

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