Earth Day Groceries
Results from the 1995 project
The following are reports from schools participating in the Earth Day Groceries Project
in 1995:
Updated November 16, 1995.
If you would like to write to any of the participants, click on their email address.
Arbor Heights Elementary School in Seattle, Washington decorated 439 bags.
My classroom of third graders walked down to Safeway on Friday afternoon.
We were met by a very pleased store manager and a film crew from a local
TV station. We got a nice tour of the store, saw a box crusher at work,
and even got some great treats from the deli department!
Since we are coordinating the project, we had the advantage of seeing your
reports roll in off the computer. In the lobby of our school we have
a wonderful map display with all your reports sort of pasted all over it -
it's getting a little hard to see the map!
Just to take the project one step farther, we announced on Friday that
anyone getting a bag at our Safeway could bring it in next week to school,
where we would turn it it into a kite to fly on our playground!
Again, thanks to all of you for making our Earth Day a very special one!
Take care - Mark
Mark Ahlness Arbor Heights Elementary School
teacher, grade 3 http://www.halcyon.com/arborhts/arborhts.html
mahlness@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us Seattle, Washington
The Elmwood Street Elementary School is proud to report they are decorating
400 bags for Earth Day distribution. The bags arrived today and we begin
drawing tomorrow. Love this project!!!
K. Bouchard
Elmwood Elementary School
Millbury, MA
mycaefer@aol.com
The students of Rural Point Elementary School in
Mechanicsville, Virginia, have decorated 750 bags to be
distributed by a local grocery store on Earth Day. Bags were
decorated by all of of students (K-5) including our pre
school (handicap) class. Everyone was very excited about the
project and felt is was an excellent way to communicate with
our local community. Please include our bags in your world wide totals.
Sincerely,
Jo Fowlkes, Technology Aide
jfowlkes@pen.k12.va.us
Oxford Middle School is delivering 1,000 EarthDay grocery bags to Kroger
which donated the bags for the school's use. They are FANTASTIC.
Jan Foregger
jforegge@cypress.mcsr.olemiss.edu
We here at the Joseph B. Radez School are one of the many schools who
downloaded the project FAQs. We did 500 bags in grades K-8. I have
images that I would like to send you, but my mailing program (Eudora for
the Mac) automatically encodes them in binhex (hqx) format even though
they are binary files. Can your Windows environment and mail program
decoded those or will I need to FTP them to you.
Thanks for initiating this great project and giving others the
opportunity to share their work with you.
Warm Regards,
Jim Meigel
Joseph B. Radez School
Cobleskill-Richmondville Central School District
44 East Main Street
Richmondville, NY 12149
jmeigel@globalone.net
We just finished the grocery bag/earth day project at Woodglen Elementary
School in New City, New York. K-2 graders were involved in this very
successful activity. We decorated 365 bags that will be distributed at the
Cropsey Garden Center. We know this will heighten our communitie's awareness
during this week. Thanks for including us! Happy Earth Day!
Clarkstwn8@aol.com
At New Hope School we participated in the Grocery Bag
Project. The fifth grades were studying the Environment
and sponsored a school wide activity along with the media
center. All students enjoyed decorating the bags. We
can hardly wait until Earth Day to go to the grocery store
in our community and see our bags filling for the customers.
Total bags: 195
Thanks for such a super project.
Connie Thompson
New Hope Elementary School
Gastonia, NC
e-mail (cthomps@stech.cnidr.org
Earth Day bags decorated: 711
Barboursville Middle School
6th grade
Barboursville, WV 25504
Students participating: 310
Participating grocery stores: 3
Diane Fetty, teacher
dfetty@access.k12.wv.us
dfetty@ramnet.net
Just a note to let you know that Narragansett Elementary School decorated
650 grocery bags for Earth Day. I delivered them yesterday to be
distributed between now and the 22nd. What a neat project! Required very
little effort! Pleas let us know the total number of bags decorated, as I
promised my kids and our staff and the local market that I would let them
know!
Susan Naysnerski
rcq106@uriacc.uri.edu
Thanks for your response. Everything worked out well. Grades two
through six decorated 400 bags and gave them to two different supermarkets
and got a very nice response. I hope you'll send the results of the project.
School address is:
Susan Dechnik
Riverton Public School
5th and Howard Streets
Riverton, New Jersey 08077
Susan912@aol.com
We enjoyed participating in this project with 803 of our students decorating
803 bags. Our bags will be distributed to communtiy shoppers this week by
the local grocery store who supplied the bags. Our Student Council
coordinated the project in our school.
Our school is located in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia where the
1996 Summer Olympics will be held. We have our own Olympics program each
spring with academic and athletic competitions.
We just recently acquired a PPP connection which allows us to view your well
designed homepage which I learned about in Judi Harris's column in The
Computer Teacher.
Donna Oliver
Library Media Specialist
Dodgen Middle School
1725 Bill Murdock Road
Marietta, Georgia 30062
oliver@mindspring.com
Waterville Primary, a K - 4 school in Northwest, Ohio has had an enjoyable
time with the grocery bags. We passed them out on March 20. Classes did
an excellent job! We will be giving 366 finished bags back to Foodtown
Supermarket, in
Waterville. They have been very helpful in our project.
Thank you for providing this opportunity.
Jeff Schmidt
smtc109@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Thanks for organizing this project! Our school participated and we
delivered 394 bags to Top Foods on Friday (our Spring Break is this week).
They were thrilled with the bags and the students did a spectacular job.
This really helps our business/school/community partnership efforts.
Thanks again.
Erica Peto - Media Specialist
Daniel Elementary Even a thought,
11310 S.E. 248th Ave. Even a possibility,
Kent, WA 98031 Can shatter or transform us.
Voice: (206) 813-7615 Fax: 813-7617 - Neitsche
lalie@cyberquest.com
We are a third grade class at Glenridge School in Clayton, Missouri, a
suburb of St. Louis. Our science unit has been "Pollution Solution," and
so your idea for Earth Day really fit in with what we've been doing. We
invited the other third grade classes to decorate bags, too, and so we've
completed 60 bags in all.
We'll be interested in hearing how many students participated this year, so
please send us the report when you have it ready. Send it to:
cvb001@mail.connect.more.net
Sincerely,
Mrs. Denise Ringhofer
and Third Grade Class
Jackie Lipsitz
School District of Clayton
7447 Wellington Way
Clayton, MO 63105
voice: 314-726-2355
email: cvb001@mail.connect.more.net
You can add our school to your list of participants for the Earth Day
grocery bag messages. Robertsville Elementary is a small rural school about
50 miles west of St. Louis. We have 160 students grades K thru 5. Our bags
are decorated and ready to return to the store.
We are new to the internet (about one month). It was exciting to
receive a message that we could use so early in our internet experience.
The students at Robertsville decorated 150 bags for the Earth Day project.
Janice Bullard <fnb006@mail.connect.more.net>
Hello,
We are all working hard on our bagsto have them ready by Sat. I love the
idea! The grocers were happy to be a part of Earth Day. We included the
sixth grade this year(I teach fifth grade.) but hope to involve the
seventh and eighth next year. We will distribute 160 bags on Sat. We
look forward to hearing from you.
Ellen Imdieke
Wayne Middle School
312 Douglas St.
Wayne, NE 68787
eimdieke@mother.esu1.k12.ne.us
Hello!
I am a first grade teacher at Olentangy Elementary School in
Delaware, Ohio. We are participating in the Earth Day grocery bag project.
Our elementary has decorated 800 bags for our local Big Bear Grocery store!
Just wanted to let you know!
Thank you.... Jo Anne Lane
jolaane@freenet.columbus.oh.us
Thanks for coordinating this wonderful earth day activity. We really
enjoyed doing the project and look forward to getting information as it
becomes available. My first grade class coordinated the effort in our
elementary building. We collected bags from Price Chopper, a local
grocery store near our building. They were glad to be involved. It's
was wonderful to see how much effort and time each child put into their
design. Even those that tend to be "sloppy" did beautiful work. We came
up with some very original designs. It's too bad we don't have picture
capabilities on our machine. I look forward to this activity in the
future. My goal next year is to get the whole district involved. Thanks!!!
We decorated and returned 364 bags from our building of 420 children. I
did not make it a mandatory project, so some teachers chose not to be
involved. I think we got a great effort for the first time.
My class answered the following questions. Maybe you can use the
answers. Trash them if you don't need them. Again, thanks for your
efforts and time.
1. Saving the earth is important because...
or 2. Earth day is important because...
Jeff A. - cuz animals need homes. If they don't have homes they can't live.
Jeff G. -because you can save the earth by taking care of the trees and
picking up the trash.
Melissa- so some of the animals and us won't die.
Kyle H. - because if people litter, the animals could get choked.
Kyle S. -so you can live long.
Kyle W. -we don't want the earth to get all "garbagee"
Vanessa - because it reminds people that we should take care of our earth
so we won't die.
Johnny - we won't have poeple if we don't pick up trash.
Kristina -we want it to be nice and clean.
Andrew -because the fish could die and the ocean will die and we wouldn't
be happy.
Jordan -to recycle and pick up garbage.
Skyler -because you should make the earth clean. We don't want the earth
to be polluted.
Todd - it gives us a clean world.
Isak -we need food.
Katie -the trees give you fresh air.
Emily - people take care of the earth.
Tessa -we save the animals
Kasey -helps all the animals have a home in the world.
Shawn -we need to take care of it.
Wendy -the earth is special.
Annie -saves the animals.
Jana -we get to save the earth.
Michelle -you have to care about the world.
Ryan -you can clean up stuff.
Brian -you get to save the planet.
John -to clean up the earth.
Colleen Malley
Sunset View Elementary
711 Center Parkway
Kennewick, Wa 99336
cmalley@anchor.doit.k12.wa.us
Happy Earth Day!
Bells Mill Elemntary School in Potomac, Maryland decorated
256 grocery bags for Earth Day. We participated in this project
last year and were glad to see your message again this year.
There is a new manager at the grocery store nearest to our
school and he wasn't too keen on taking bags out of the
store and then bringing them back so I had to do a LOT of
talking and made him very environmentally and educationally
aware before I got the bags! Thanks for doing this again.
Sincerely, Joanie Friend
jfriend@CapAccess.org
We are on spring break now but last Wednesday my homeroom students put the
finishing touches on bag 1,000! (They stayed late in order to reach
their goal) I will be meeting several of my students tomorrow in order
to deliver the bags to P&C.
Thank you for coordinating the efforts...and Happy Earth Day!
Rae Covey * 6th Grade Teacher
Coburn School
216 Mt. Zoar Street
Elmira, New York 14904
"Children may not always remember what you say to them but they will
remember how you make them feel."
rcovey@cscrisc1.sct.boces.k12.ny.us
Mark, this is such a wonderful project - I don't know who got more
excited, our kids or our local grocery store!! Albertsons cheerfully
"loaned" us paper sacks and were will return 685 beautifully decorated
sacks to them this afternoon for their use this weekend. Every grade
level in our school participated. We have 800 students: pre-school deaf-ed,
K-6 regular ed, deaf-ed and elementary skills and the thought and care
that went into these sacks was wonderful. My favorite slogan came from a
fifth grader "Take care of endangered animals - they can't be
RE-STOCKED!" (great for a grocery sack!!)
Wr followed your suggestion and had a uniform format for each sack -
Earth Day at the top and a large circle in the center. The children
wrote their slogans around the circle with pictures within the circle as
they chose. Thanks for spearheading such a great project and for the
suggestions and support that made it EASY as well as memorable.
Happy Earth Day to all!!
Joan King, Computer Lab Manager
J. B. Little Elementary School
3721 Little Road, Arlington, TX 76016
king@tenet.edu
The students from Atlantic View Elementary School in Lawrencetown, Nova
Scotia, Canada decorated 186 grocery bags for Earth Day. They will be
used at the nearest cooperating grocery store on Saturday (Earth Day).
All of the students and teachers were eager to participate and hope to
continue the project each year.
Nancy Barkhouse
nbarkhou@fox.nstn.ns.ca
Reporting in that Ashlawn School decorated 350 bags which will be used
by our local grocer this Saturday. We had a great time doing it and the
kids were quite creative. We had more bags than students, and a group
gave up their lunch recesses to finish the job. Put us on the list for next
year!
Wren E. Gurney,
ESOL-HILT
(English for Speakers of Other Languages-High Intensity Language Training)
Ashlawn Elementary School
5950 N. 8th Rd.
Arlington, VA 22205
wgurney@ashlawn.gmu.edu
476 completed bags from Barnett Shoals Elementry School Student Council
Atthens,GA.
Sincerly,
Stuwart Chen
Emily Harris, eharris@moe.coe.uga.edu
Just wanted you to know that our 3 third grade classes--76 students--
completed 150 Earth Day bags for 2 small stores near our school. A city
newspaper 30 miles a way even came to do a color photo for Sat. edition.
Thanks for the project idea. We're waiting anxiously for your reports.
Chestnut Ridge District--Central Elementary
New Paris, PA 15554
3rd grade
Bonnie Dillner, hsx00015@llpptn.ll.pbs.org
Sierra Heights Elementary School in Renton, Washington participated in
the Earth Day grocery bag project this year. We received 500 bags to
decorate from the Renton Highlands Albertson's. During lunch recess for
two days, the students were invited to decorate the bags. We had
involvement at all grade levels - we were especially surprised to see
the positive response from the sixth grade students. All 500 bags were
decorated. The kindergarten students did this project in class as they
don't have a lunch period. It was a lot of fun for the students and
they are looking forward to seeing the bags at the grocery store on
Saturday. The PTA's Hug the Earth committee sponsored the event.
Comments to Leslie Bryant at frabry@ix.netcom.com
frank bryant, frabry@ix.netcom.com
Thurgood Marshall Middle school in Olympia Washington had three teachers
participating in the Earth Day Grocery Bag activity. We just dropped off
330 bags at our local Safeway store. The manager was very cooperative in
helping us with our project. Thanks for the suggestion!
Virginia Reid
vreid@mh.osd.wednet.edu
Count us in!
Glen Oak Primary School Peoria,IL USA.
250 bags to the Kroger on Wisconsin Avenue.
The third and fourth graders enjoyed making the bags.
Thanks Janet Quintiliani
JCBQ@aol.com
We at Wallingford Elementary School, in suburban Philadelphia, have created
about three hundred Earth Day Grocery Bags, to be distributed at the local
Acme supermarket. There was an article in the local newspaper about it
too.
Thank you for coordinating this easy, fun, visibility-producing project.
--Debbie Wile
Wallingford Elementary School
Near Philadelphia, PA, USA
debbie@forum.swarthmore.edu
This project is a great idea! My school will be joining the
effort to "get the word out." We are decorating 400 grocery bags. They
will be distributed to the store this afternoon--and handed out tomorrow
with groceries in them. The children had a good time with it--their bags
are beautiful!
Thank you for allowing us to join your effort!
Yvette Welch/Seventh Grade
ywelch@cecasun.utc.edu
What an enjoyable and meaningful project! My 45 students decorated 260
grocery bags with public awareness art and messages about the importance
of "saving the Earth." These 5th and 6th graders' bags will be
distributed at our local Kroger and FoodMax stores. I do not have the
equipment to scan these images, but I can send you a "still" shot of some
of our bags...they look great! Thanks for a great project!
-Kate Roberts' Classes
kmr4@Ra.MsState.Edu
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Linden School in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, decorated 616 grocery bags that will
be distributed at 2 local stores. Linden School's 630 students
(Kindergarten - 5th grade) created their own unique designs, slogans, and
shared their thoughts on saving planet Earth. Many thanks to Arbor Heights
for spearheading this wonderful project.
Betty Lou Alspaugh
Linden PTA volunteer
bza@ornl.gov
bza@cosmail1.ctd.ornl.gov
CHELSEA SCHOOL IS PROUD TO SAY THEY DECORATED 335 BAGS. We are in Chelsea,
Quebec and we would be pleased to receive the overall results and the names
of the schools that participated.
My Grade 2/3 class tallied the bags yesterday and we walked them down to the
store so they can be used. The kids loved this project and they were
thrilled to be able to take part. We will look forward to being involved
again next year.
They will write reports on Monday and I will forward them to you when they
are finished.
Thanks for allowing us to participate.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Regards,
Debra Killen
Chelsea School
P.O. Box 450
Chelsea, Quebec J0X 1N0
Phone: (819) 827-0245
Fax: (819) 827-0622
dkillen@magi.com
My teacher handed out the grocery bags from grade one to grade five classes.
We have collected them all and there are 69 bags all completed. We are going
to send them to Fortinos which is a grocery store in our neighborhood and
they are going to hand them out during Earth Week to all the people who buy
something.
We all enjoyed working on them and we hope we learned something new about
conservation and reducing for Earth Week and every week.
Please send your report to my teacher at Gulfstream P.S. Toronto, Ontario.
Thanks! Aaron:>)
Heather_Pirso@nynet.nybe.north-york.on.ca
Thank you so much for this project. It was wonderful. Our school
decorated 220 bags and I just delivered them to the food store for tomorrow!
Bye,
Carol Juliano
Munsey Park School
Manhasset, LI, NY
k12mhjfc@vaxc.hofstra.edu
Friends Academy in N. Dartmouth, MA decorated 300 bags for
the local Shaw's Market in N. Dartmouth. Students in grades
K-8 participated. Thank you for organizing such a worthwhile
event.
MR THOMAS M MILLER
DRSX92D@prodigy.com
Oakland Beach Elementary School in Warwick, RI really enjoyed participating the
grocery bag project! Mrs. Mason's fifth grade students organized the project
for the school. It was a perfect culminating activity for their year long
study of the pollution in Greenwich Bay, a body of water abutting their
neighborhood. After learning about the causes of the pollution, the students
felt it was important to educate the rest of their community, making people
aware that each individual contributes to the problem and, as a result, can
help eliminate it. Mrs. Mason's students wrote speeches containing that
message and delivered them to the other classes. After a short discussion, the
other children were invited to help in the effort by decorating a shopping bag
using the theme, "Save the Bay". A reporter from The Providence Journal
covered the event and wrote a piece about it, which added to the publicity and
carried the children's message even further. In all, 500 bags were decorated
and delivered to Stop and Shop. In addition to using the bags on Earth Day,
the manager promised to read a message from the children over the PA system.
POWELL@ids.net
Once again Columbia Catholic School in Columbia, MO participated in the
grocery bags Earth Day project. We decorated over 350 bags for a local
grocery store and had our local television station televise one classroom
of children decorating the bags and then shots of myself and five
students taking the bags over to the store. We thought we would just get
30 seconds or a minute on screen, but he did a delightful feature of several
minutes on it and we were all terribly pleased with the whole project.
We had the 6th graders decorate bags to give to the 2-5 graders to use as
samples for making their bags. Most of the students from 2nd through 5th
did two bags. I made cardboard circles for them to use as templates for
the world and took care of getting, distributing and returning all the bags.
I also contacted the media. The teachers love the project because it is so
easy for them in a very busy time of year and a valuable lesson for the
students. The store was so pleased they said they would hang some of the
bags up for display on Saturday.
Thanks for organizing such a fun and worthwhile project.
Jan Selby, Librarian
Columbia Catholic School
817 Bernadette Dr.
Columbia, MO 65203
314-4456516
e-mail jselby@mail.coin.missouri.edu
The students at Arsenal Middle School in Pittsburgh, PA decorated 415
grocery bags which were delivered to our local grocery store to be
distributed Saturday. Thanks for the idea. All of our students became
very excited about the project and created some wonderful, inventive bags
to make people aware of Earth day. I was so pleased with the project. I
can't wait until next year!! We have sixth, seventh, and eigth graders
at our school and students from all grade levels participated. I look
forward to your reports so that I can share the information with my
students and other staff. Happy Earth Day!
Debra Simpson
simpson@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us
Our school of 72 students decorated about 200 sacks for earth day .
Jean Hansen
jhansen@esu6.esu6.k12.ne.us
We are 27 4th graders in Miss Geier's class at Sunset Primary School in
University Place (Tacoma). Thanks for letting us know about the project.
We decorated 200 grocery bags for our Safeway and Albertson's stores
and delivered them after school today for use tomorrow.
Please let us know the totals on schools and bags when you get it.
Thank you for the great idea!
Miss Geier's Class sunset4a@esd114.wednet.edu
Sunset Primary School
University Place School District
Tacoma, Washington 98466
sunset4a@orca.esd114.wednet.edu
The Earth Day Project went very well at the two schools I am at.
Here are the totals.
Chatham Elementary, Pittsburgh, Pa.........302
Madison Elementary, Pittsburgh, Pa.........432
It was really great to be a part of this.
I have made certificates for all students who decorated a bag.
Take Care,
Jim Diederich
Pittsburgh Public Schools
diederic@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us
Happy Earth Day!
Great project idea. It was well received by school, merchant, and community.
Burnett Elementary School in Milpitas, California turned in 492 Earth Day
Bags to Nop Hill Grocery Store.
Thanks again,
Denis Mullen
DJMul@aol.com
Students at Ducktown Elementary in Ducktown, Tennessee decorated
400 bags for this super project! Our school services children in grades
K-7. All students and teachers participated in this project--it was very
exciting! We delivered bags to the Piggly Wiggly Friday afternoon--the
store employees were very eager to hand these out. They wanted to look
through the students creations right away! What a wonderful
project--thanks for allowing us to participate and spread the word on
Earth Day!
Yvette Welch
5th,6th,7th grade science teacher
Ducktown elementary
P.O. Box 40 Hwy 68
Ducktown, TN. 37326
ywelch@cecasun.utc.edu
Our elementary school got involved with the Earth Day Grocery Bag project.
We decorated 80 bags from our local grocery store: V and S Foods.
Ann Tilley, teacher-librarian
antilley@cln.etc.bc.ca
Martin Morigeau Elem-Jr. Sec. School
Box 69,
Canal Flats, B.C.
V0B 1B0
604- 349- 5665
Greetings from Stony Mountain School in Stony Mountain, Manitoba, Canada,
After reading about your project on Kidsphere, we decided to follow up on
your idea. Unfortunately, our local store does not use paper bags anymore.
However, my student teacher lives in another town called Gross Isle, about
15 miles from here and works in the local store. Therefore, I would like to
report that we decorated 25 bags and made a poster to hang in the store to
announce which school had decorated the bags for Earth Day. I hope that you
add our small amount to your tally. Great Idea! This project has also been
used as one of our projects on our way to becoming a "Green School".
Regards,
Bonnie McMurren
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Bonnie McMurren * "Where you tend a rose *
Stony Mountain Elementary School * my lad, a thistle *
Stony Mountain, Manitoba, Canada R0C3A0 * cannot grow." *
email: mcmurren@minet.gov.mb.ca * - The Secret Garden *
http://www.mbnet.mb.ca/~stonymtn * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
We were only able to decorate 70 bags, but that's a start. Maybe next year we
can expand the project. (This year only our 4th graders participated.) We are
looking forward to hearing what the totals turn out to be.
Yours,
Carol Goldsmith, Belmont, CA
CGoldsm250@aol.com
Our junior high school's science class decorated
45 grocery bags 44 students
We enjoyed participating in this project. Next year we hope to have all
300 students involved.
Laurie-Anne Barisoff
Teacher-librarian
lbarisof@cln.etc.bc.ca
We provided 400 bags to the local grocer. Will we receive the results from the
day? Thank You.
clymerba@dlu.edu
The students at our school had a wonderful time colouring grocery
bags. It turned out to be great competition within the school for what
class could colour the most bags. The total number of students at our
school is 623. We coloured a total of 1292 bags. Incredible. Please
pass the total count back to me so that I can post it in our school.
Thanks Rod Macdonald
North Saanich Middle School
Sidney B.C. Canada
romacdon@cln.etc.bc.ca
We were away on Easter Vacation on Earth Day, but I wanted to tell
you what we did before vacation to prepare and participate.
One of the mothers from my room (5th grade) who is very "into" recycling
came to our room and gave a very informative talk about how to and what to
recycle in Joliet, IL. Then she brought us grocery bags to decorate for a
local store, and returned them for use on April 22. The students really
enjoyed the project. We did about 90 bags.
Thank you for suggesting we do this, because we probably wouldn't have
otherwise. Hope you do it again next year. (We will try to!)
Ruth Coleman, 5th grade at Thomas Jefferson Elementary, Joliet, IL
rcoleman@isbe.state.il.us
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
+ Ruth Coleman, 5th Grade Teacher +
+ Thomas Jefferson School, Joliet, IL USA +
+-All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today-+
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
My students and I have collected and counted 566 grocery bags
decorated by the third, fourth, and fifth grade students at W.L. Kissam
Intermediate, Chapel Hill ISD, just outside of Tyler, Texas.
I went to the grocery store Saturday morning to have my groceries
sacked in our bags and they were already gone at 10:00am.
The grocer and the students were excited about the project. Thank
you for such a wonderful idea.
Kathy
harrisk@tenet.edu
Thank-you for allowing us to participate in this Earth Day
project. Oakwood Middle School, Eastpointe, Michigan, students made 200
grocery bags. Next year we will complete more!
Susan
--
Susan Thompson email: sthompso@edcen.ehhs.cmich.edu
Oakwood Middle School
14825 Nehls
Eastpointe, Michigan 48021
Immanuel Lutheran School in Palatine, IL had 390 k-8 students each decorate a
bag donated by Dominick's grocery in Palatine, Il. A local newspaper wrote a
story about the project. Older students were buddies to kindergarten students
to teach them about Earth Day and help them write slogans on their bags and
give them suggestions on how to decorate it. Thanks for coordinating a project
that brought awareness and fun together.
kbauder@isbe.state.il.us
Just a report from Tyrone, Pennsylvania.We are a small rural school
district in central PA - near the home of the Nittany Lions (PSU). Our 4
elementary schools total 1,200 students decorated 1,325 bags donated from 2
local grocery stores. We also had an article in our local paper detailing
this event and focusing support for Earth Day. I'm looking forward to
sharing data with my other schools.
Thanks for a job well done!
Vicki Aults
5th Grade Teacher
vla101@email.psu.edu
This is to announce that Edgeworth Elementary School, Quaker Valley
School District, decorated 400 bags for the 25th Anniversary Earth Day
Celebration. All students in Grades K-5 participated. Our 6th graders
are also going to decorate the bags soon. We worked with our local
grocery store, called "Safrans." Lou Safran is the owner. Our local
newspaper, the Sewickley HERALD, took photographs of customers getting
groceries in our bags, and I'm sure the article will appear in the paper
soon. Our community is great for helping our schools!
You will be pleased to learn that one child already received a lovely
note from a parent who received her bag. It says:
"April 19, 1995...
Dear Meredith,
I felt so proud to take my groceries home in your decorated bag
yesterday. I was so proud that you and some of the other students at
Edgeworth chose that project. I see it was for Earth Day.
On my bag, you reminded me to "cut pop can rings." I try to
remember to do that and my family helps, too! My sister scuba dives and
has seen sea turtles caught in pop can rings that were left on the beach
and were washed up from the ocean. When she told me about how the they
were dying from being caught, I realized just how important it was.
Your art work with the bird and the earth was very well done. Your
choice of colors and the size of your illustrations really made the bag
and message noticeable.
Enjoy the rest of your school year.
Sincerely, Mrs. Martha D. Smith
P.S. I have saved the bag and I am going to display it at a meeting
with Dr. Longo next week.
+++++++
(Dr. Longo is the Superintendent of our Quaker Valley Schools.) I loved
your project from the first time I saw it last year on the Internet,
Mark, but I was too busy. This year I made it a priority, and hope to
be back next year.
On Saturday, April 22, 1995, Dr. Bob Fusco, Dr. Joe Marrone and I
introduced our "Sewickley Net" to our community in the Large Group Room
of our School. It will give our whole community (schools, banks,
libraries, hospital, YMCA, etc.) access to the WWW. At our inaugural
celebration, we displayed 3 of our Earth Day grocery bags.
Unfortunately, I was so busy helping to put the Sewickley Net together,
I only read your message about the Grocery WWW page tonight! Oh well,
for our next demo, it will be there for all to see....right?
Great job! We're proud to have been a small part of it!
Mim Bizic,
Library Media Specialist, Edgeworth Elementary....
bizicm@calvin.cc.duq.edu xoxoxo
Gus and Mim Bizic - bizic@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us
The Bag Project was a success. The grocer (Woodman's of Beloit) was
more than willing to provide the bags and with a minimum of organization and
work we had a very stunning project. "If we all do a little, we can all do
a lot". The paper sent a photographer while the school was decorating the
bags so the project received some press besides. I also put a plug in for
you as the organizer and internet technology. We decorated 358 bags!!!
Thanks again for the idea. A simple yet effective project.
Regards,
John Soehnlein
6th Grade
Converse Elem. School
1602 Townline
Beloit, WI 53511
soehnlei@beloit.edu
Rosewood School had students in kindergarten through fifth
grade participating in the project. Our local Harris Teeter
store was more than happy to participate. They had also
participated with us last year, so they understood what
we were doing quite well.
Two classes of fifth graders also work once a week with a group
of four year old kindergarten students in our school. Their
plans for this past week were to teach the little ones about
Earth Day and to help them design their bags. It was a
great opportunity for both groups of students.
When they were all added together, I think we had about 585 bags that were
decorated and delivered. We also delivered a banner with both
the name of the school and the store and their support of Earth Day,
as well as a banner that said thank you to the store for allowing
us to do this with them.
I hope everyone enjoyed this as much as we did. I look forward to
doing it again next year!!!
Jamie Wilkerson and class
Rosewood School
Rock Hill, SC USA
wilkerson@sunbelt.net
The K-8 students at the Joseph B. Radez School colored 480 grocery bags. We
received them from Price Chopper Supermarket. They were returned there on
Monday, April 17th and distributed to customers, many of whom expressed
pleasure at the receiving the colorful bags.
Many of our students expressed a great deal of creativity in designing the
bags and the experience was thoroughly enjoyable for all involved. Thanks
for the great idea, we'll be looking for it again next year. Hopefully, we
will also have a Web page set up and will be able to share some of our
creative ideas with others.
Regards,
Jim Meigel
James Meigel
Joseph B. Radez School
Cobleskill-Richmondville CSD
44 East Main Street
Richmondville, NY 12149
(518)294-6621 (voice)
()294-6425 (fax)
Internet : jmeigel@glone.net
Bt : jmeigel@albneric
At Pouch Cove Elementary we decorated a total of 286 bags. It was
difficult getting plain paper bags but we decorated around the logo on
large paper bags from Sobeys and also got some smaller plain paper bags
from the nearby Foodland store.
We enjoyed participating in the Earth Day Grocery Bag Project! We
are having an Environmental Science Fair at our school and look forward
to displaying all the results!
http:www.stemnet.nf.ca/~dsulliva/
Dorothy Sullivan
Pouch Cove, Nfld.
sulliva@calvin.stemnet.nf.ca
Approximately 400 (6th, 7th and 8th grade) students at Eastgate
Middle School, North Kansas City School District, Kansas City, MO
decorated and delivered 1000 bags as a part of the Earth Day project.
We'd like to know if any other middle school kids were involved.
We look forward to getting the report containing messages from all the
other schools!
Thanks for making this opportunity available!
Ann Campbell, Computer teacher
Roberta Wermelskirchen, project coordinator
monkcema@coop.crn.org
It was great to participate in your project once again. Marlborough
School created some fantastic Earth Day grocery bags. Grades K
through 8 participated in this project along with three supporting stores.
What a great project! We decorated 226 Earth Day Grocery Bags.
Robert Baker
r_baker@mentor.unh.edu
Marlborough Elementary School (K-8)
Marlborough, NH 03455
USA
Elaine Pawski
Nelson School
Keene, NH .......also decorated 50 additional bags with her art classes
in Keene, NH
Greetings from the Ocean State!
Lincoln School, in Providence, Rhode Island, sent out 98
paper grocery bags on Earth Day. Our local grocery store,
The Eastside Marketplace, was very cooperative.
Lincoln is an independent girls school serving 300 students
from Infancy to 12th grade. This was done as a Lower School
k-5 project.
Thanks!
Camilla Gallo
prlst024@llwsbe.wsbe.org
Lincoln School, Providence RI
Franklin School in Wausau, Wisconsin did not preregister for this event, but
we did decorate grocery bags for distribution on Earth Day as your project
suggested. If you would like to include our count in your project, we'd be
happy to be part of the effort. Our school is K-5, and almost all the
students decorated a bag.
Thanks for suggesting and organizing the project!
Franklin Elementary School
Wausau, WI
Total Bags Decorated: 324
Carol Otto, 2nd Grade Teacher
schofico@llwisc.ll.pbs.org
Would you post the grand total to the entire Kidsphere list or could
I receive the grand total number? THANKS!
We participated in the Earth Day Grocery Bag project. Our bags were used at
the Capital Grocery store. Our class was the first in Dartmouth, Nova
Scotia to hear about this wonderful project. In Dartmouth, there was 1,315
children that participated in this Earth Day project. We hope to hear from
you soon. We are on the Kidsphere newsgroup.
From,
Grade 3 at John MacNeil Elementary School
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
dreid@fox.nstn.ns.ca
Our School, Thompson Middle School in Newport, Rhode Island, designed and
distributed more than 550 bags to our local stores. We not only had fun
but were able to spread the message to so many of our neighbors. We
recieved so many favorable comments about the project. The stores also
gots lots of extra business as our students dragged their parents to those
stores to show them their works. We're looking forward to participating
next year. Thanks for a great idea.
Mary
mhayes@xor.cis.brown.edu
A most helpful mom, Mrs.Mielke,from the Bryantville Elementary School in
Pembroke, MA obtained bags from local stores and later returned the EarthDay decorated
bags. The stores were happy to donate the bags but were somewhat
apprehensive about later distributing them to customers-probably sanitary
reasons although the bags were in excellent condition.What began as a
single classroom 19 bag project spread into 190 bags from various grades.
Three cheers for a super activity that we all enjoyed :)
richard1@meol.mass.edu
Della Richards
Our school, Thornhill Primary School, in Terrace B.C. Canada took part in
the Earth Day bag decorating. One of our local grocers (Safeway) was
thrilled to supply our school with the paper bags. We requested 200 and he
asked if we would take 1000!! This year, that was too large a request but
next year I plan to coordinate our school district and do 1000+ bags.
Our school is a K-3 school with 278 children. We decorated 216 bags. I am
not sure if any other school in our district took part in this project. Our
school district is in northwest British Columbia and we have a total of
5400 students from 20 different schools.
Everyone involved in this project had great things to say about it and we
look forward in taking part in it again next year.
Thank you for the wonderful idea. I look forward to receiving the final tally.
Sincerely,
Greer Kaiser
gkaiser@cln.etc.bc.ca
Grade 2 Teacher
Thornhill Primary School
Terrace B.C. Canada
I guess I must have trashed my original posting for this project.. Hope
the following is all the information you require, if not e-mail me with
what else you need to know.
Alexander Park Elementary School - Golden, British Columbia Canada
Population 300 students
Number of Bags decorated - 127 ( 5 classes took part)
Please send me the results of the project so I can share them with the
students who participated in the project.
Roxanne Bennett,
Resource Teacher,
Alexander Park Elem.
Box 464
Golden, B.C., Canada
rbennett@cln.etc.bc.ca
Our school participated in your wonderful project for the second year.
It is a good experience for all of us. Thanks for all the time you
must spend working on and organizing it all so well.
We are a rural K-6 school in North Central Ohio. All 320 of our students
decorated bags this year. Our school is Killbuck Elementary School in
Killbuck, Ohio.
Thanks,
Sue Fullerman
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sue Fullerman, Kindergarten Teacher Killbuck Elementary School
216-276-2891 299 School St. Killbuck OH 44637
whol_fullerm@tccsa.ohio.gov "I touch the future. I teach."
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Our school participated in the project and completed our messages on 400+ bags.
The school is Royston Elementary School, Royston, British Columbia CANADA
Please send a tally to the following address when compiled so that I can
write a short article for our local newspaper.
Thank you.
Please send info to
keithk@huey.nic.bc.ca
Thanks again.
Keith
Brookfield R-3 elementary school reporting-
600 students made 850 bags for Earth Day that were distributed from
2 grocery stores in Brookfield, Missouri. Thanks for the opportunity.
Jeff Morelock
Brookfield R-3 Elementary
miz005@mail.connect.more.net
Our school, A.S.Matheson Elementary in Kelowna, B.C. decorated a total of
190 bags! All the kids had a great time doing it. Look forward to doing it
again next year.
Dave Currier
dcurrier@schdist23.bc.ca
Here at Carl Cozier Elementary in Bellingham, Washington we took 372 bags to
Ennens Food store. We look forward to seeing the count results.
cpitsch@coz.bham.wednet.edu
I forwarded your message about the project to other elementary
schools some time ago. One school has the following response.
from Mat F. Please could you let the originators know that we had about
326 bags decorated at our school? Teachers and kids responded
enthusiastically. (I noticed, however, that few people actually ask for
paper at Kodiak Safeway. It looked like checkers would give plastic
by default unless a customer specifically asked, and no one was asking
while I watched.) Joe Gully at Safeway said they recycle their bags,
and would be willing to show classes how they compress and bundle
recyclables.
I expect to hear from at least one more school, probably today. Thanks
for the opportunity to participate.
Pat J.
janee@muskox.alaska.edu
Hi!
Greetings from Higganum, Connecticut! Wanted to tell you we decorated 302
grocery bags for Earth Day. It was a success1 Thanks for lining up such a
great project! Looking forward to the results!
Angie Johnson
First Grade Teacher at Burr Elementary in Higganum, CT
screen name-ANGIEJANE@aol.com
Arleta School in Portland, Or. decorated 263 Earth Day bags for Keinow's
food store.
Thank you for planning this event.
Aaron Neiss, grade 5
Timothy Hahn Arleta Elementary School
thahn@pps.k12.or.us. 5109 S.E. 66th Ave.
+1 503-280-6330 Portland, OR 97206 USA
(This school already sent in their "bag count" - Mark)
As a finale to the project, my Grade 2/3 class learned about newspaper
reporting and the questions (who, what, where, when, why, how) that good
reporters should answer. They then composed their own reports as follows:
Earth Day is to remind people to respect the Earth and clean it up! Chelsea
School delivered Earth Day bags to the local Freshmart on April 20th, two
days before Earth Day. Here are some schools that participated: Chelsea,
Philemon Wright and Arbor Heights. We made the bags to send the message to
everyone across Canada. Here are some of the messages: Save the Earth,
Don't Pollute, Remember the 3R's: reduce, reuse, recycle, Don't be a
Litterbug, Respect the Earth.
We decorated the bags for Freshmart. Earth Day was April 22nd and we
delivered the bags on April 20th. We wanted to tell everyone not to
pollute. We did it by Internet. Bradley and Patrick
Earth Day is April 22nd. Chelsea School delivered 335 bags to the
Freshmart. Earth Day is to remind people to stop polluting. We took the
bags so when customers get them they would get the messages. Susie
Earth Day is to remind people to clean up the Earth and not to pollute. It
is on the 22nd of April but we brought the bags to Freshmart on the 20th.
We did this because we want to take care of the Earth. Christie
Earth Day is to remind people to save the earth and respect the earth.
Earth Day is April 22nd and we went and delivered some decorated bags to the
Freshmart. There were 13,000 bags decorated last year for Earth Day. Stephany
Earth Day is on April 22nd. Ms. Killen's Grade 2/3 class at Chelsea School
spread the message by decorating grocery bags with Earth Day messages. Ivan
and Ben
On April 22 Ms. Killen's Grade 2/3 class from Chelsea School walked to
Freshmart with the school's decorated bags. The bags had Earth Day designs.
Earth Day is a celebration to remind you to respect the Earth and Earth Day
is when you respect the earth more than usual. Jennifer
Earth Day is to remind people not to pollute and to recycle and to respect
the earth. It is on April 22nd. This year we decorated bags all over the
place. Our school decorated 335 bags. Our class walked to the Freshmart
and back to deliver the bags. The bags are used to deliver the Earth Day
message. The Freshmart will put groceries in the bags we decorated for
Earth Day. Christine
As you can see the children really enjoyed this whole activity. All the
teachers enjoyed the project as well and we had 100% participation among all
our classes. Our local newspaper got in on the act and the children were
thrilled to see their picture on the front page with a lengthy article
inside the paper. We are enjoying seeing the total numbers increase daily
as we receive new reports.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Debra Killen
Chelsea School
P.O. Box 450
Chelsea, Quebec J0X 1N0
Phone: (819) 827-0245
Fax: (819) 827-0622
dkillen@magi.com
From:
Reporting in from Port Huron, MI Northern High School 140 grocery bags were
decorated with Earth Day pictures and slogans and distributed to customers of
Kroger's Super Market on 4-22-95. The feedback was very positive from
shoppers and the store. Send me the results when ready. Thank you again for
thinking up such a fun and meaningful activity. My students loved it.
Linda Gostinger
IguanaB325@aol.com
(This school already sent in their "bag count" - Mark)
I was at a conference today sponsored by Wentworth Media of Classroom
Connect. People from all over our Tri-State Area attended (PA, Ohio,
WV). I showed them all of the pages I had downloaded from your WWW site
last night, and they told all of the participants about it. So, there's
more advertising for next year's feat!
Also, I sent a few sample pages of your tallies to 5 of our local
newspapers..... I think they'll be impressed. What a great job this
Mark. We all appreciate it! Thanks again.
Mim Bizic, Edgeworth Elementary School, Sewickley, PA 15143
bizic@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us
In Prince Geore B.C. Canada College Heights Elementary School kids
colored 200 bags and returned them to the local Overwaitea grocery store.
David Greenberg
dgreenbe@cln.etc.bc.ca
This is a report from Oaklands Elementary School in Victoria, BC. We
decorated and sent out to our sponsoring store about 174 bags. The staff
and students who participated in the project as well as the store
employees appear to have really appreciated the opportunity to v:e!o
something so simple yet effective. Thanks, Mark, for
spearheading the project again this year.
Jack Greenwell
Neil Hughes
nhughes@cln.etc.bc.ca
Mark, our kids did 164 bags and the response from the community
was overwhelming. Skagway has approx. 125 students k-12
and many parents wanted to receive their child's bag when they
were at the grocery store. The clerks at the store had a blast with the
bags trying to match some local personalities with
the designs.
Thanks again
Gary Trozzo
JFGAT@acad1.alaska.edu
Skagway City School District
Skagway Alaska
Park View School in Kings Park, New York participated in the Earth Day
Grocery bag project. We decorated 1190 bags and sent them to 2 stores.
Susan Howell
HOWELLS@edugate.boces3.org
2nd grade teacher
Park View School
Our school, Cypress Elementary, Miami, Florida, decorated 500 bags. They
were distributed to a Public grocery store. We had great fun decorating
the bags. We hope to do this again next year.
Heather and Adriel, 5th grade students
MCNAMAJ@mail.firn.edu
Our count from North Oyster Elementary School in Ladysmith B.C. is 300 bags.
The project was an incredible success. Both the students and the grocery
store loved it.
Just out of general interest: On Earth Day I was out canoeing along the
coast near Ladysmith and stopped at an isolated beach for a break. An
injured mature, male bald eagle was perched on a log injured. My friend and
I captured the eagle (with a little help) and took it to the Raptor Centre
in a nearby village. At this time and point it looks like it will recover!
Probably some type of poisoning. Let's keep the Earth clean of herbicides!
Thanks,
P. Grey
pgrey@bbs.sd68.nanaimo.bc.ca
Thornhill Elementary school, which lies across the playground from us here
in Terrace took part in the Earth Day project as well. I took a sample to
them late Thursday afternoon and some of my collegues at that school saw
the value in such a project as well so I am happy to report another 120
bags to the Terrace count.
These 120 bags were from Thornhill Elementary School (4-7).
I really liked the idea of making kites out of the used bags -- maybe we'll
do that next year!
Greer Kaiser
gkaiser@cln.etc.bc.ca
Teacher Thornhill Primary
Terrace B.C. Canada
Park Ave P.S. in HollandLanding Ontario north of Toronto participated in
the grocery day project and 520 bage were beatifully decorated.
Thank you for sharing the idea and communicating the results
jerry diakiw principal
Jerry Diakiw
jdiakiw@oise.on.ca
Queen Mary Street School enthusiastically decorated 210 bags
for our local Loeb IGA.
Susan Roseman
af728@freenet.carleton.ca
Queen Mary Street School
Ottawa, Ontario Canada
The students at J.W.McLauchlin Elementary School are proud
to report that they decorated and distributed 400 bags for
Earth Day. The bags were distributed by Home Food Market in
Raeford. All students K-5 participated and were very
excited about the project. Please include our bags in your
total. Thanks for initiating this wonderful project and
giving us a chance to share.
Pat McNeill, Media Coordinator
J.W.McLauchlin School
326 N.Main St.
Raeford, NC 28376
tdah58a@prodigy.com
In our school, Woodfin Elementary, every student decorated at least
one grocery bag for a total of 300. On Earth Day, several fifth-graders
went to the grocery store and actually bagged groceries for the customers.
This project was a lot of fun for everyone, and we plan to participate
again next year. Thank-you for sharing the idea with us.
Sharon Davidson
sdavids@stech.cnidr.org
(Fifth-grade teacher)
Hello from Baytown, Texas. We are just east of Houston, Texas. Our
first grade class made 60 sacks for Randall's to pass out on Earth Day.
Cathy Edwards
Pumphrey Elementary School
Baytown, Texas
E-Mail jalle@tenet.edu
We decorated 185 grocery bags at Hollyrood School, Portland, OR.
Peggy Smith Hollyrood Elementary School
psmith@pps.k12.or.us. 3560 N.E. Hollyrood Ct.
+1 503-2840-6766 Portland, OR 97212 USA
Hi, I'm letting you know that we decorated 900 bags at Graham
Elementary and sent them back to the store.
JENNI WILSON
WILSONJD@PLU.edu
456 Beautiful Grocery Bags turned into Safeway on Yelm Hwy. Lacey, Wa. by
Lakes Elementary School, North Thurston School District.
Thanks again for a neat, simple, worthwhile project!!
vhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhv
h Vickie Hayes :-) h
v vhayes1@esd113.wednet.edu v
h vhayes@quest.arc.nasa.gov h
v Lakes El School, N Thurston School Dist. v
h H 360-456-1801; W 360-493-2788 h
vhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhvhv
From: Lindsay Calhoun <>
Thank you for being "the hub" of the 1995 Grocery Bags on Earth
Day project! The students at Mapleton Elementary School, a small one
hundred year old school in Boulder, Colorado, decorated 170 bags on April
17th. We returned our sacks to our neighborhood sponsor, Moe's Broadway
Bagels, on April 19th. What a marvelous project! People continue to
make great comments about those sacks full of bagels and their concern
for saving the Earth. Your suggestion made Earth Day very special for
us, and we hope for those who received the bags decorated by our children.
Lindsay Calhoun
lcalhoun@bvsd.k12.co.us
Media Specialist
Mapleton Elementary School
Boulder, Colorado
Thanks for your work on this project again. I hoped to get more teachers
involved, but only about half did in my building. Many of those teachers
had the kids do more than one bag.
We used the local Safeway and they were very obliging. They still have
the sign up that I made telling what we did and thanking the Safeway
store for their participation.
220 bags decorated
Olympic Hills Elementary School
Seattle, Washington
Thanks again and happy testing,
Krista Canterbury
kristac@cks.ssd.k12.wa.us
I am Sandi, a teacher from Squamish, B.C and our school joined in on the
grocery bag project.
We had 200 students from Gr 1-7 particpate and we gave them to two local
stores. It was particularly great at one store because it was the Grand
Opening of the store and the owner's son goes to our school. The community
response was fantastic! Hats off to you for organizing this very
worthwhile event!!
Sandi Paterson
spaterso@cln.etc.bc.ca
P.S. I think your www page is great!!
The Porter Township Elementary School in Lamar, Pennsylvania,
decorated 135 grocery bags, designed by all of our students K-6. They
were then distributed to our local supermarket.
|\
Donna K. Dorey ____|\__________________|___|_____|_\____
Porter Township Elementary School ____|/__________|\___O__|___|____@___\___
P.O. Box 276 ___/|______|\___|___|___|___|________|___
Lamar, PA 16848 __|_/_\____|____|___|___|__O_________|___
717-726-3857 ___\|/_____|___@____|___|___________@____
| @
ddorey@oak.lhup.edu
At S. Christa McAuliffe elementary School in Greeley, Colorado, we
decorated 480 grocery bags from one of our supermarkets in town. Not
only was the store incredibly pleased to help us out, they have gotten
wonderful comments as to the nature of this project. Thanks go to you
for heading this up!!
Thanks,
Kendra Rutledge
krut@alpha.pr1.k12.co.us
3rd Grade teacher
We had 326 bags decorated at Midland School in Elkins, West Virginia for
Earth Day.
Mrs. June Davis and 3rd grade class
Midland Elementary School
150 Kennedy Drive
Elkins, WV 26241
midland1@Euclid.DnE.wvnet.edu
Thought you might like to see the flyer that was distributed with our bags.
They were printed on recycled paper. Our kids had a great time and about 475
students made bags that were distributed. I was told that they got some bags
and were excited about using them again.
Thanks for the great Idea!!!
Candy Dunn
CandyTeach@aol.com
Kathleen Goodwin School Old Saybrook, CT 06475
Hi, Mark. Just a note to let you know how many bags we made and how many
students participated. We had great comments from the students, teachers,
grocery store manager and customers. Thanks for a wonderful idea. We
would really like to participate next year and have more schools in Fort
St. John involved.
We had classes from 2 schools involved (366 students). We produced 425
bags. I hope that I'm not too late for an update/report on how many
schools, etc participated.
Thanks again for the idea. Keep us informed for next year if you are doing
any changes. Oh- we tried to scan some photos for you, but they weren't
good quality. Next year, I guess!
Chris Froese
chfroese@cln.etc.bc.ca
Chris Froese
Fort St. John, BC, Canada
Hello,
Our computers were down and we couldn't participate in the original
groceries bag report. We are an elementary school in Kings Park, Long
Island, New York (Park View). Two supermarkets in our neighborhood gave
us bags to decorate. The school decorated 1,076 bags for earth day. If
you wish to add this to your total let us know.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Goldman and 2-3
GOLDMANL@edugate.boces3.org
This is another bag report.
West Lynde Public School
270 Michael Blvd.
Whitby, ON, CAN
L1N 6B1
Eric Beck
email: ericbeck@village.ca
approx. 450 bags were done by K-6 students.
Sorry this took us so long, but we were on vacation when Earth Day happened,
and it took use awhile to get our act together. Anyway, here it is:
Wyoming Central School
Wyoming, New York (near Rochester, New York)
Student population:250 students, Kindergarten through 8th
Decorated 300 bags, which were given to a very local grocer (like a small
convenience store). Some of the paper bags were given to us by him, and some
we purchased so that we could participate. The students were really excited
about being part of this, and we hope that we're not too late! We'd love to
hear results.
Thanks --
Jill and Kim
SAMJART@aol.com
Just a quick note to let you know that our school, Oakview Elementary
School in Centralia, participated in your project by decorating and
distributing 500 grocery bags on Earth Day. We all thought it was a great
idea and look forward to participating again next year! Thanks for your
efforts.
Linda Kinney
lkinney1@mickey.esd113.wednet.edu
Mark, I am sorry that this report is soooo late!!! This is such a neat
project and it is our second year for doing it! This year it was not
quite as successful, because we had a spring break right before the Earth
Day, so we were trying to decorate bags in a crunch. Therefore we
decorated 201 bags, only! But we will gear up for next year and be
ready. Thanks for organizing this worthwhile project. It is always a
hit with the local supermarket and the community!
######################################################
Marilyn Hammond 5/6th grade teacher Swanson School
2602 N. 113th St. 86th and Harney
Omaha, NE 68164 Omaha, NE 68114
402-498-0757 402-390-2262
mhammond@esu3.esu3.k12.ne.us District 66
#######################################################
Two fourth grade classes in Kent, WA, got bags from a local Safeway Store
and decorated them. It was fun and worthwhile. We had 57 kids decorate
84 bags. Next year, maybe more.
Time is nature's way of keeping all things from happening at once.
Thom Sayles
bondo@nwlink.com
Dear Mark, Sorry for taking so long but things go hectic around
here just like at your end I am sure. Ware Elementary chose a
logo entitled "Ware Cares - Earth Day 1995". We decorated and
distributed 429 bags on April 22nd thru our local Food Lion
Store. Hope to hear how the other schools did - could you send
that info? Thanks for all your help!!! Cheryl Kent
********************************************************************************
Cheryl Kent
Secretary, Ware Elem. School
Staunton, VA 24401
332-3938
ckent@pen.k12.va.us
******************************************************************************
Because I work in the environmental field, the PTA at my daughter's
school asked me for suggestions about earth day activities. I passed
along your idea and heard from a reliable source that it was a huge
success! So I'd like to report that Madison Elementary School in
Wheaton, Illinois decorated 500 grocery bags, which were returned to the
local Dominicks for distribution. About 40 bags were also hung at the
entrance to the store - it made for an impressive earth day display.
Congratulations on your great idea for a doable, high impact activity and
for using the Internet to spread the word.
Jim Butler
jpbutler@mcs.net
Mark, Our school participated--contributing 200 decorated bags to our
local IGA store. It was a great project for our kids--they loved it!
We'd love to hear about other schools' projects, as well. TIA! Ruth
D. Ruth Esry, Principal
Pleasant Acres Elementary School
Rantoul, IL 61866
217-893-4141
"The School with the Future Inside!"
d-esry@icebox.ncook.k12.il.us
Hi Mark, These bags were decorated for Earth Day at:
Nenana Public School
P.O. Box 10
Nenana, AK 99760
k - 60
1 - 70
2 - 60
3 - 33
4 - 79
5 - 179
7 - 15
Total - 496
Nenana is a k-12 school located 60 miles southwest of Fairbanks. The bags
were distributed in Nenana and Fairbanks. The Earth Day program was
sponsored by the fifth grade class. (You can tell!)
Thanks for the invitation to join in, this was their first NET project.
It was a great success.
Robin Turk (parent)
robint@muskox.alaska.edu
The results of my making Earth Day grocery bags were only 30 bags, but as a
result great feelings between the store and the school I work for were
established ( the store LOVED them).
Thanks for the great Earth Day art activity,
Racer Rick@aol.com
Here is another report for your info...they do not have email...so I am
passing it along for them:
La Presa Elementary School
La Mesa-Spring Valley School District
519 La Presa Ave, Spring Valley CA 91977-6011 (619)668-5790
"We delivered 200 bags to a neighborhood Vons to be distributed. The
students enjoyed designing the bags. Thank you for this idea.
Sincerely, Diane Beene, Community Resource Coordinator"
Carolyn Chase, Earth Day Network,San Diego
Tel: (619)272-7423
FAX: (619)272-2933
Voicemail: (619)496-3361
email: earthday@qualcomm.com
From: Carolyn Chase
Subject: Another Earth Day bag report
Just to be completely thorough, I ran across another report:
FROM: Anita Gerrein, Lincoln School, 80 West Wyoming Ave, Melrose MA 02176
"We were pleased to join in the Earth Day Grocery Bag Project. Each student
decorated a bag for Shaw's supermarket in Melrose. 330 bags were delivered
for distribution. I enjoyed organizing such a worthwhile activity."
From: puckapunyal@peg.pegasus.oz.au (iearn.youthcan@conf.igc.apc.org) on 15
Jun 1995 10:32:10 +1000
To: iearn.youthcan@conf.igc.apc.org
Subject: Re: Earth Day Groceries Project
Dear Mark, Our school has decided to join your Earth Day Grocery
Bag project on June 5th World Environment Day. We hope it is not
too late, we couldn't do the project on Earth Day as it was in our
term break. Our school is called Puckapunyal Primary. Puckapunyal
is situated 100 kms from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. We have
550 bags to decorate from our local Family Store. We have about
280 children from prep to grade 6 at our school. We would love to
know how many schools and which schools were involved in your
project and whether you'll be able to include our total in your
tally. Hoping to hear from you. Libby Delbridge grade 3 teacher
and computer co-ordinator email: puckapunyal@peg.apc.org
Back again...not only did our local Super Fresh use all our 350 bags to
decorate the store before giving them to customers, but the manager
visited our school and gave each student an apple. He also gave the
school a cherry tree to help replace one of the 57 trees we lost due to
construction. The project was a great community relations activity for
us and the business. We've become partners.
Wren E. Gurney, wgurney@ashlawn.gmu.edu
ESOL-HILT
(English for Speakers of Other Languages-High Intensity Language Training)
Ashlawn Elementary School
5950 N. 8th Rd.
Arlington, VA 22205