Earth Day Groceries Reports from 1999

Earth Day Groceries, 1999 Reports

This is Part 1, with reports from the "early bird" schools (1-100).
Updated April 14,1999.

Use the Guestbook or email to send in your reports. (Remember to include your school name, location, and number of bags decorated) The most recent reports are listed at the top of this page.

Bags decorated: 20 bags
Comments: We had our second graders from our campus participate in the Earth Day project in conjunction with Albertson's Grocery store. When completed we will have 80 students participating in the project from our campus. Hopefully, next year we will have our entire campus participate in the project. I feel that this is a very worthwhile project. thanks to one of our teachers, she made us aware of this project.
Thanks.
Pat Sheon
Mae Stevens Elementary
Copperas Cove, Texas

Bags decorated: 1000
Thanks for the great idea to celebrate Earth Day. Our school is decorating bags for Randolph Market whick is a local grocery store in Hopewell, Virginia. We have called the newspaper and T.V. stations in Richmond to see if they would be interested in publicizing our earth day project. The children and community are excited to be a part of the nationwide celebration. We'll let you know how well this project goes. Thanks again for the idea!
Patty Wilmot
Patrick Copeland Elementary School
Hopewell, Virginia

My name is Sharon O'Donnell and I am currently a student teacher from Centenary College in New Jersey. I wanted to take this time to thank you for the wonderful idea you have provided as a project for the 4th grade class I am working with! I am a mother of two and am in my first education class. I have found such joy in working with the children on different projects dealing with the environment, but was having trouble figuring out what to do for Earth Day! I really appreciate the innovative idea and I wish you good luck in the future. I will let you know how the project goes. We are only going to do a small amount (100), but when I get my certification, WATCH OUT!!!! Thanks again,
Sharon O'Donnell

Bags decorated: 260
The kids had a great time decorating their bags and looking at this web site! Thank you for putting it together!
Beth Munro
Colden Elementary School
Colden, New York

Bags decorated: 1,000
Comments: This is our second year as a school. We have K-5th grade. This is the first year to participate. Our Environmental Club is sponsoring this activity. We have enjoyed being a part of this activity.
Beverly Todd
Macon-Hall Elementary
Cordova,TN 38018 USA

Bags decorated: 500
Dara Taylor
Virginia Reinhardt Elementary School
Rockwall, Texas, USA

Bags decorated: 500
Our local Kroger Store on Johnson Ferry Road in East Cobb, GA loaned us the grocery bags. During the week of April 12-16 students in grades pre-K through 4th decorated the bags in their art class, directed by art teacher Mrs. Clark. This is our first year participating in this project. The students are so proud of their work.
Lori London
The Epstein School
Atlanta, GA USA

Bags decorated: 700
Students from K-6 decorated the grocery bags beautifully. Patrons at Community Market (appropriately named) will be thrilled to receive them. Many thanks to the faculty at Pivik Elementary School.
Linda Innocenti
Pivik Elementary School, Plum Borough S.D.
Plum, PA 15239

Greetings from Minneapolis. I am an environmental education specialist at Shingle Creek Elementary School in Minneapolis Minnesota. I see about 400 students a week. We have decorated about 400 bags for the Earth Day bag project. Good Luck with the project.
Sue Maxa

Hello Mark...my name is Geri Adamson and I am a teacher with the Community Education program of the Roseville Area Public Schools in Minnesota. We are a program that supervises children in kindergarten though grade six before and after school. We have committed to 100 bags that can be found at the Cub Foods on 100 W Co Rd B in Maplewood Minnesota. Our Friendship Connection program is located in the Falcon Heights Elementary School at 1393 Garden Avenue in Falcon Heights MInnesota.
Thank you...what a great idea!
Geri Adamson

Bags decorated: 350
Comments: Little Flower participated with three local grocery stores to further the Earth Day Groceries effort. McKays, Food Lion and Super Fresh grocery stores each donated bags for the students to decorate. The kids had a fabulous time decorating and sharing their Earth Day messages.
Angela Gizzi Funya
Little Flower School
Great Mills, Maryland USA

The students here at Chippewa Elementary School in Palos Heights, IL are excited about joining in the Earth Day celebration. We are decorating 250 bags to be distributed at our local Dominick's in Palos Heights on Thursday, April 22.
Miss Pat Maresh, Principal
Chippewa Elementary School
12425 S. Austin Ave.
Palos Heights, IL 60463

We are reporting to you from the Sagemont School in Weston, Florida. Our school consists of children in preschool through the eighth grade. There are 276 children in our school. All of our children decorated Earth Day bags and we returned them to the local grocery store. The supermarket was going to display some of the bags and distribute the rest of them to the customers. We are very excited to have had the chance to participate in this exciting event!
Teresa Salafrio

Tupelo Middle School in Tupelo,Ms will have a booth at the local high school's Earth Day Celebration April 16, 1999. Eight hundred bags will be decorated by students K-8. Bags will be returned to Todd's Big Star for distribution. O'Charleys Restaurant bought the school colors to decorate the bags with.
Sherry Davis, 8th grade science teacher

Bags decorated: 607
Comments: The whole school is working together on this project. Thanks for your motivation and help!
Judy Aikman
Spring MIll Elementary
Indianapolis, IN

Bags decorated: 500
Comments: It was Fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mrs. Martha Richey
Edwardsville Middle School (EMS)
Glen Carbon

We are the 7up team (a whale of a team) We will be decorating bags on wednesday April 14, 1999. The bags will be distributed on Earth Day at Shaws Supermarket.
E. Bennet Middle School
E. Bennet Middle School
Manchester,CT

Bags decorated: 500
Comments: I think this is a great activity to promote environmental awareness within the school and community. I sent a memo to all teachers inviting them to participate in this activity. The response was very positive, and most of the teachers are participating!
I have designated a drop-off area for the bags in school, and I will deliver them to our local grocery store, Publix, on Wednesday, April 21. The store managers think that this is a wonderful idea and are excited to see all of the decorated bags.
Sarah F. Gandarias, 2nd Gr. Teacher
Ocean Palms Elementary
Ponte Vedra Bch., FL , U.S.A.

Bags decorated: 700
Comments: We have just passed out our bags to our students. They were donated by Bi-Lo. We will be returning them to the store on Monday, April 19th so that they can be given to their customers. We are also putting up a bulletin board at Bi-Lo explaining the grocery bag project. Our students are very excited about it. This is a wonderful idea! We are very pleased to be participating this year.
Michelle Irick
5th grade teacher; co-chair of environmental committee
Horrell Hill Elementary School
Hopkins, South Carolina

Our school decorated 75 bags for the program. Fifteen of our students took the bags to the store and bagged groceries for the customers.
Chris Lynch
Floral Avenue Elementary
Bartow, FL
Winn Dixie Marketplace
Lake Wales, FL

Bags decorated: 608
Dinah Wright
Scottish Corners Elementary
Dublin, Ohio

Bags decorated: 22
C. Bridgeman
East Hills I.S.A
Pittsburgh, PA U.S.A.

Bags decorated: 20
The children had a great time decorating their bags for Earth Day. This activity gave us an opportunity to have a good discussion about the need to take care of our Earth. Thank you for allowing us to participate. This made for some very teachable moments.
Anne Gillespie
Valley Elementary School
Poway, CA

Bags decorated: 500
Comments: Students in grades K-4 will decorate grocery bags donated from Safeway, Ft. Washington, Maryland and Food Lion, Accokeek, Maryland. We looking forward to participating in this project.
Jeanne LaRoque
St. Mary's of Piscataway
Clinton, Maryland

Bags decorated: 150
Comments: This is the second year that our entire 4th grade has participated in this project. The children really enjoy it and the stores are always more than willing to help out. Last year we acquired bags from the local Winn Dixie, and this year the neighborhood Publix store was kind enough to loan us the bags. Thank you for the super ideas on your web page!
Linda Rennick
Blue Ridge Elementary
Evans,GA,USA

Bags decorated: 700
Students from pre- kindergarten to the sixth grade are participating in this year's earth day groceries bag project. The Acme supermarket has donated 700 bags for the students to decoratein honor of Earth day.
Linda Wilhelm
Clarendon School
685 5th. Street, Secaucus, NJ

Bags decorated: 1,000
Comments: Our students from grades K-5 are decorating over 1,000 bags from two local grocery stores. We are working with Kroger and Publix to inform everyone of ways to protect and take care of our planet. These bags will be completed this week so they can be used by customers during Earth Week. Students are decorating bags with pictures and with rules they feel everyone should follow in order to properly do their part in protecting and preserving the Earth. We want everyone to remember to Reduce, Reuse and Recycle for everyone's future.
Lynn Bump
Midway Elementary
Alpharetta, Ga/ USA

Heights Elementary in Clarkston, Washington has 300 grocery bags ready to deliver to locally own grocery stores, and Albertsons. Their Earth Day Groceries students are very excited about sharing the inportance of Earth Day. One fourth grade class is planning an Arbor Day tree on April 14th to celebrate Washington State Arbor Day as well as Earth Day for 1999.
Karle Warren

Bags decorated: 46
Dianne Lansing
4th Grade- Westport Central School
Westport, NY USA

Bags decorated: 29
Comments: We are in the middle of giving the state test. What fun my 2nd graders had decorating the bags given to us by Ralphs as we took a much needed break. The children were so creative and really enjoyed discussing what they each could do to make our world a better place. Thank you for organizing this worthwhile event.
Mrs. Ann Hamilton
Moreno Elementary School
Moreno Valley, CA

Bags decorated: 650
Jennie Lund
Brentwood Elementary
Brentwood, CA, USA

I am a first grade teacher at Whitman Elementary School, in Washington Twp. NJ. This is the first year that our school will participate in this educational activity. We are very excited to be included in this project. Our students are working hard to convey the Earth Day messages. Our bags will be distributed at the local "Super G" supermarket. They helped us make this event possible by loaning us 500 bags.
Thank you for the terrific campaign.
Mrs. Connie DiNardo

Bags decorated: 36
Lori Seay
Lexington County School District 4
Swansea, S.C. USA

Bags decorated: 60
Robin Salonich
Sandhills Middle School
Gaston SC 29053

Bags decorated: 50
Christina Gail Shepherd
J. Fred Matthews Memorial Library
Saint Paul, VA

I am aming for 23,but I have not yet let the class know about it yet.
Charles Fee
Hannibal Central School
Hannibal, New York, United States

Bags decorated: 1000
Comments: This is the first time one of my children has been involved with this, I think it's wonderful, but, the flyer they sent home stated we could go to this site and find out all the schools involved in the project, could you tell me where I can find that.
Teri Osterman
Mahala F. Atchison Elementary
Tinton Falls, New Jersey

Bags decorated: 95
Comments: We had a great time decorating the bags. When we finished with the bags we plan to do some clean-up work at our schools playground.
Dean Krogstad
Verndale Elementary
Verndale, Mn 56481

We are doing the grocery bag project as a fourth grade Earth Day activity. We are including the entire school. Our local Giant Eagle was very eager to participate.
Samuel Fiorante
Neshannock Memorial School
New Castle, PA

Culkin is particpating in the Earth Day Groceries Project with 600 gorcery bags from Sack and Save Groceries, Mr. Stillman, manager. The students are decorating the bags during their art classes this week and the bags will be returned to Sack and Save at the end of this week for distribution on Earth Day.
From: Culkin Elementary School
1650 Culkin Road
Vicksburg, MS 39181
Faculty coordinator: Carol Duncan

Bags decorated: 300

One of our local grocery stores was very excited to be part of this Earth Day project. All it took was one phone call and we were on our way. We had each of our students in the 6th grade decorate at least one bag as a T.A.P.(Teacher Advisory Program) activity the week before Earth Day. We have been using a map to pinpoint as many of the locations as possible. Great geography lesson, too!
Pat Shawd
Mitchell Middle School
Mitchell, South Dakota 57301

Bags decorated: 300
This a terrific project. The whole school got excited!
Gerrie Bastia - Science Teacher
Hoxsie School
Warwick RI

Bags decorated: 18
Comments: This is a very good learning experence for children. It encourages children to clean up the enviroment.
Mike Lowes
Sault ste Maire ,Mi,USA

I have been put in charge of Earth Week projects for my school. I read about your Earth Day Groceries project and thought it was great. I have contacted a local grocery store and our school, Featherbed Lane Primary School in Baltimore, Maryland, will be participating. We are hoping to complete 500 bags before April 22nd. Thanks for the idea!
Kathy

Bags decorated: 720
Comments: I am on the recycling commitee at South Elementary and was in charge of finding the Earth Day project. The one thing I needed to do was find something that all of the teachers would be willing to participate in. This project was a hit at the school because it was easily done by all of the students and was not time consuming for the teachers.
Alesia Hollis
South Elementary
Crystal Lake, IL, USA

Bags decorated: 1,000
Comments: We are working with the particpation of Publix Groceries located in our community for this Earth Day Project. Both Westchase Elementary and Publix are brand new to this area and we feel this is a great way for us to make a positive connection to our community.
Jacquie Singleton
Westchase Elementary
Tampa. FL USA

Bags decorated: 600
Comments: I am pleased to announce that North Elementary School in Youngstown, Ohio has decorated 600 grocery bags to be distributed at the Belmont Avenue Giant Eagle in Youngstown. The children and staff had a great time with the project. Giant Eagle will distribute the bags on Earth Day and will hang a giant Earth Day banner signed by all students and staff of North Elementary. We are proud to be a part of the Earth Day Groceries Project!
I just wanted to let you know personally what a wonderful project this is. We recently combined the staff and students of 2 closed elementary schools here in Youngstown,Ohio. Things happened very fast...closings, packing, moving, new staff, new children, moving 700 elementary kids (K-4) into an old highschool building. It's been a rough year. But the students and staff really came together on this project...mainly, I think, because it was"non-invasive" to the teachers. I did the foot work, picked up the bags, distributed them and returned them to the store...no problem...no muss! no fuss!
It also was a chance for the school to do a service in the community...much needed here in Youngstown. I'd like to see our children do more next year...your project has given me a few ideas on what I'd like to see done... So, thanks once again...I've come to really use the Internet as a tremendous resouce for my classroom and my teaching...will mark my calendar for next year and hopefully involve more stores and perhaps invite the parents and grandparents in for a bag decorating party !
Sincerely,
Mrs. Arlene Scull, Grade 1
North Elementary School, YoungstownCity Schools
2724 Mariner Avenue
Youngstown, Ohio 44505

Bags decorated: 117
First, second and third graders are decorating grocery bags that were given to us by the Mantua Acme. We will return the decorated bags to the grocery store, which will use them for packing shoppers' groceries on Earth Day, April 22.
E. Melino & E. Smithwick
Woodbury Heights School
Woodbury Heights, NJ 08097

Bags decorated: 500
Comments: Gifted students are coordinating school's effort to decorate 500 bags for Farmer's Country Market.
Melissa Brandt
Monterrey Elementary School Gifted
Roswell, NM

I just completed 150 bags. I am a student teacher at Cache La Poudre Elementary School in LaPorte, Colorado (Northwest of Fort Collins). I teach a 2/3 Multiage class which has 25 students. I got all of the other second and third grade classes to participate, as well, totalling 150 students which totalled 150 bags. We are participating with Overland Foods - the local grocery store in LaPorte. I am pleased to say that this was a great activity and the students responded very well to it. I will be excited to see how the community responds to it!
Ltlbear7@aol.com

Hi, this is our third year and this time we are decorating 800 bags with the help of our local Victory Supermarket. The kids love it and have looked forward to it this year.
Kathy Harrity
Hudson Public Schools

Bags decorated: 1200
Comments: Our local grocery store contributed very strong bags with handles. Patrons to the store buy the bags for 10 cents, then they receive 10 cents off their purchases everytime they bring the bag back in for a refill.
Randy Furman
Milaca Schools
Milaca, MN USA

Bags decorated: 375
Will be delivering 375 decorated bags next week to the local Jewel.
Judy Belanger
Highland School
Downers Grove, Il 60515

Bags decorated: 215
Comments: This is our first time to participate in the earthdaybag contest. We are really excited about getting the community involved in earthday!
Brandee Randels
Kinsley-Offerle School District
Offerle, KS, USA

Bags decorated: 420
We have been doing this for several years now-- we love the project! We are a large school, and many bags get out there in the public. Many positive comments come back to us. What a great learning experience for our students!!
S.C.Smith
Sheffield Ele.

Bags decorated: 500
Comments: This was our first year to participate, but the students and teachers were very enthusiastic. We decorated the 500 bags and then returned them to the local grocery store, H.E.B. A very large Thank you goes out to the managers and employees of HEB for participating with us. Looking forward to the next Earth Day, 2000.
Ardis Kamenicky
Henderson Elementary School
Bryan, Texas

Bags decorated: 104
Diane O'Neal
Fairfield West Elementary School
Sylvia, KS, USA

Bags decorated: 225
We had a great time decorating the bags. The kids all want to go to the grocery store now and hope to get one of the specially decortated bags.
Ann Pickett
Port Edwards Schools
Port Edwards, Wisconsin

I am the principal at Harding Acadaemy White Station. We are one of 7 elementary satelite schools for Harding Academy in Memphis, TN. Our location has children school ages 4-9 (Jr. K - 3rd). We are participating in this project. One of our parents owns a Piggly Wiggly here in Memphis. He has provided us with 400 bags for our 200 students. We would like to be included in your report. I originally saw this project this past winter on another site that lead me to you. Our address is:
Harding White Station
1106 Colonial
Memphis, TN 38117
Our Distributor is William's Piggly Wiggly
3237 Winchester Rd.
Memphis, TN 38117
Thank you.
Liz Daniel

Bags decorated: 150
Carol Ayers
Elydale Elementary
Ewing, VA 24248

Bags decorated: 80
Comments: I wish I had discovered this site earlier. I would have tried to involve the whoe school.
Joan Maywalt
Charles E. Riley School, first grades
Oswego, NY, USA

Bags decorated: 550
Comments: BETTE SUE GEORGE, MYSELF, AND THE ART TEACHER AT OUR SCHOOL WORKED ON THE PROJECT. THE TRUMBULL TIMES CAME TO TAKE PICTURES OF THE CHILDREN WORKING ON THE BAGS. THE NEWSPAPER IS SUPPOSED TO DO A STORY ON EARTH DAY. WE PLAN TO HAVE ALL THE BAGS DECORATED BY APRIL16TH SO THAT WE CAN BRING THEM BACK TO THE SUPER STOP AND SHOP ON QUALITY STREET IN TRUMBULL. THE FEED BACK FROM THE TEACHERS WAS VERY POSITIVE.
PAT GROSSO
BOOTH HILL SCHOOL
TRUMBULL, CT 06611 USA

Bags decorated: 500
Comments: This is the first time doing the Earth Day Groceries project. My 4/5 graders are showing the other classes examples of the bags they have decorated. A local grocer gave us bags that didn't have anything printed on them. This made decorating them alot easier.
Larry Kuykendall
Naas Elementary School
Boring, Oregon

Bags decorated: 200
Comments: This is the 2nd year K-3 students have participated in this great project to promote Earth Day awareness. Our town recycling service encourages the use of paper bags when sorting recyclables. Our local grocery stores have been flooded with customers requesting our decorated bags. The students wrote their first names on the bags. Since this is a small town, many customers get a kick out of getting a bag decorated by someone they know! Thanks for the great idea. We look forward to doing this again next year.
Penny Thacher, Kindergarten teacher
Mt. Carroll Grade School, CUD 304
Mt. Carroll, Illinois 61053

Our school, Orchard Park Public School in Orillia, Ontario, Canada has decorated 200 grocery bags for a local store for Earth Day. The grocery store is Zehrs. The students in our school that decorated the bags were from grade 1 to 5. I had several students from grade 6 and 7 that helped to present the activity to these younger grades. Thank you for the great project for our school to work on for Earth Day.
Yours truly,
Ms. Linda Buchanan

Hi! We are decorating grocery bags for earth day. The 2nd and 3rd graders will be working together in cooperative pairs. Our total should be about 56 bags. The participating grocery store is Dahl's. We are getting together next week to decorate them. We think it will be a fun project! Thanks for sharing your ideas!
Mary Reyes
Holy Trinity School
Des Moines, Iowa

Bags decorated: 350
Steve Novario
Seneca Grade School
Seneca IL

Bags decorated: 400
Douglas Hoff
Mast Way Elementary School
Lee, NH

Bags decorated: 700
Comments: 1999 was the first year that our school decorated Earth Day grocery bags. Our students were thrilled to learn that their art work would be given to customers at our local SuperValu grocery store on Earth Day. We decorated about 700 bags, which look terrific. The experience was a great way for students to learn the importance of taking care of our planet. Since the community is involved, the project is an authentic experience for students and the message will reach many people. This was a great project.
Allison Chandler achandler@gw.neric.org
Voorheesville Elementary School
Voorheesville, New York 12186

I have coordinated the project between three elementary schools in my district with over 2000 bags being distributed on Earth Day.
This is our second year and there is alot of enthusiasm from my teachers. Thank you for the great Earth Day project.
Heritage Elementary School
3240 School Road
Murrysville, Pennsylvania 15668
Howard Fisher

Bags decorated: 655
Comments: This was the perfect project for our students. We did the activity in our LIGHTBULB LAB classes during our block rotation. The students are looking forward to being in the Diamond and IGA supermarkets in our town on Earth Day to help explain the project as well.
Sandra Irish
Bridgeport Elementary School
Bridgeport, Texas

Bags decorated: 33
Comments: Great site. It's good to know that kids are trying to help save the earth.
Theresa Nader
Russell Street School
Littleton, MA, USA

Yes, we are participating:
Ms. Cyndy M. Mandell,
teacher;
Topaz School, 14110 Beech St., Hesperia, CA 92345.
We have collected over 600 bags so far.

My name is Jane Ansaldo and I teach 2nd grade at Dondero Elem. School in Portsmouth, N. H.--our address is 32 Van Buren Ave--03801. I saw the article in my Copy Cat Magazine re: the grocery project and I decided we would give it a try using bags from a local store called Market Basket. We have 12 classes participating each taking 20 bags to be distributed on EArth Day. Keep in touch as I would love to join a yearly adventure to teach kids about how to be involved to help save the earth. It is apart of my environmental issues unit each year!
Good Luck, Jane Ansaldo

Will be participating the the Earth Day Groceries project with the Sultan Red Apple Market. SES will be decorating 500 bags to distribute. Staff Member Ginger Lenhart is coordinating.
Dave Vail
Sultan Elementary School
PO Box 150
Sultan WA. 98294
(360) 793-9830

Bags decorated: 23
Comments: We are teaming up with the Yakima Solid Waste Dept. to decorate and distribute bags this year. Thanks to Becky Wandell!
Mrs. Black's class
Naches Valley Intermediate School
Naches, WA

Bags decorated: 1,630
I'm responsible for the Pollution Prevention Committee in the Renal Division at Baxter Healthcare. I saw this Earth Day Grocery Bag idea on the internet and thought it was great idea. It makes for a great outreach program in the community. Three schools participated. 700 bags were decorated by the students at O'Plaine Elementary School, 730 bags decorated at the Spaulding School and 200 bags at the Woodland School. These schools are located in Gurnee, Il. The Jewel and Domincick food stores were very cooperative in supplying the grocery bags. Another idea would to have your local grocery store sponsor an Earth Day Coloring Poster Contest. Happy Earth Day 1999!
Candy Fishman
School/Organization: Baxter Healthcare
Waukegan,Il. 60085 USA

Bags decorated: 772
Wanda Loving
Riverdale Elementary
Riverdale, Georgia

Bags decorated: 500
You had a great idea with this earth day thing. People at our local grocery store love them. Thanks for great ideas.
Allison
School/Organization: JCDS
Jacksonville, Fl, USA

Bags decorated: 25
Great project!! The kids loved it. It is nice being represented in our local supermarket.
mike gerace
Seaford Harbor Elementary School
Seaford NY 11783

Bags decorated: 700
Audrey Andrieski
Forest Lake Elementary School
Columbia, South Carolina 29206

Bags decorated: 25
Richard Brooke
China Grove Elem.
China Grove, N.C., USA

Bags donated from Ashcraft Grocery. 4 first grade classrooms and 1 second grade classroom beginning to decorate over 300 bags to be handed out the week of April 22 at the Ashcrafts Grocery Store in Alma, Michigan.
Nancy Gott
Alma public schools Luce Rd.Early Childhood
Alma, Michigan

We are planning to complete this project in the next couple of weeks.Our entire Lower School will complete app.220 bags and return them to Publix.Each grade is involved in their own Earth Day project and we are having a Science Book Fair that same week.We are anxious to get started.Thanks for the great ideas and for making them so easy to implement in the classroom.We are involving many parents with no classroom experience and you have provided great ideas.Mary Ellen :-)
Mary Ellen Payne
Brookwood School
Thomasville,Georgia 31792

I am sending this for Denice Thomas at Burley-Glenwood Elementary
Burley-Glenwood Elementary School will be participating in the Earth Day Groceries Project. We will be decorating 500 grocery bags. Our school is in the South Kitsap School District, in Port Orchard, Washington. The classes who will be involved in this project are:
Kindergarten - Mrs. Cumming, Mrs. Morberg
1st Grade - Miss Ross, Mrs. Fanning, Mrs. Elton, Mrs. Brouchetto
2nd Grade - Mrs. Engen, Mrs. Rowland, Mr. Moses, Mrs. Witt
3rd Grade - Mrs. Makielski, Mrs. Lawson, Mrs. Lindley, Mrs. Nadeau
4th Grade - Mrs. Detmering
5th Grade - Mrs. Davidson
5th/6th Split - Mrs. Ragsdale
6th Grade - Mrs. Fowler
Life Skills Class - Mrs. McManus
Sincerely,
Denice Thomas

500 bags
Simon Paddock
Rockport Elementary School
Rockport, Massachusetts

The students at Orchard Heights Elementary School (K-6) will be decorating 700 grocery bags which will be delivered by a group of 3rd and 6th grade students to the QFC Grocery Store located at the South Park Shopping Plaza in Port Orchard.
Ann Paoletti
Orchard Heights Elementary
Port Orchard, WA 98366

What a great idea. We plan to decorate approx. 115 bags from the local Giant and Weis Stores in Newport.
Vicki Shea
Newport El. School
Newport, PA

We haven't yet completed the task, but we have planned to include all of our first graders and children involved in the multi-age program. This should be 375 children! I received 300 bags from our local grocer and will try to get the additional 75 via recycling. (If not I'll send a request to the address you suggested) What a wonderful idea! This ties in beautifully with our multiple intelligence unit on recycling. Any suggestions or comments...please feel free to e-mail me. CWS
CHris Stanvick
Robinson Elementary
Westford, MA

We have 4 first grades in our building and we have decorated 200 grocery bags for Earth Day. Rulli Brothers is the store and we are walking there on Earth Day to deliver the bags and tour the store.
Sandra Metts
Lynn Kirk Elementary School
Austintown, Ohio

Our school is participating for the first time in this project. We are decorating 600 grocery bags to be delivered and used for Earth Week. We are really excited and we are looking forward to help get the message out about the importance of saving our Earth!!!!! Shirley Santos ssantos@vineland.org
Dr. William Mennies
Vineland, New Jersey

Our class is participating in the Earth Day Grocery Bag Project with each student decorating one bag for a total of 22. We are also cleaning up our playground, and presenting a visual stration of L. Armstrong's "What A Beautiful World." We strive to make a difference every day in making our Earth a better place.
4/5 Class
Buce Twp. School
Sault Ste. Marie, MI 49783

This is the second year that our school has participated in this project. The project was brought to our attention by a member of our Compact Committee. The entire school Grades K -5 are involved in this project. The decorating of the grocery bags with environmental messages is under the direction of our Art teacher.The 400 grocery bags are then returned to Price Chopper where customers receive a decorated bag packed with their groceries. The children enjoy this project very much and it is continued by the classroom teachers with lessons on our environment annd how we can protect it. We also have a yearly Earth Day Program which consists of poems, essays and posters created by the students.It is a schoolwide event.
Teresa Hayes
RJ McNulty Elementary School / GASD
Amsterdam, New York

I am a first grade teacher at Taylor Mills Primary School in Manalapan, NJ. Our 7 first grade classes will be decorating 160 grocery bags to be used on April 22nd at our local Manalapan Foodtown.
Carol L. Brown

We decorated 46 grocery bags given to us from the TOPS supermarket.
Mrs. Kathleen Kozma kkozma@depew.wnyric.org
Cayuga Heights Elementary Depew, NY

Banks Elementary School, Banks Oregon will be participating in the Earth Day grocery bag project. Our schools recycling and more club, the H.O.H (Help our Habitat) will be sponsoring this project starting March 1st. Our Elementary will be delivering 550 bags April 1st to be distributed the entire month of April. This project is so worthwhile. We are excited to join the other Oregon schools that are participating. Thank you for all the helpful information. We are looking forward to making this a tradition in the years to come. Have a great Earth Day. Remember the future is in our childrens hands and we are their teachers.
Rhonda Hancock Recycling Coordinator Banks Elementary
Oregon Green Schools member
RRH1@ix.netcom.com

Happy Earth Day, 1999!

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