Earth Day Groceries Reports from 1999

Earth Day Groceries, 1999 Reports

This is Part 2, with reports from schools 101 -200.
Updated April 17,1999.

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: 600
Comments: Irvington School, PK-Grade 5, has decorated 600 bags to celebrate Earth Day!The bags will be distributed by Nature's Northwest in Portland, Oregon.
Mary Jean Ranberg
Irvington School
Portland, Oregon USA

Clayton Elementary School (part of the Neenah Joint School District):
2916 W. Fairview Road
Neenah, Wisconsin, 54956
participated in the Earth Day Grocery Bag Project. This week our students in grades K-5 had a great time decorating 300 bags from:
Pick 'N Save
647 S. Green Bay Road
Neenah, WI 54956
Store Director : Rob Bullock The bags will be distributed on Earth Day, April 22. The local newspaper, The Post Crescent, will be on hand for photos which will appear in their paper along with a press release. We are very proud of our students' effort. The bags are really neat. They did a nice job!
Thanks for the great idea.
Ardy Kreuter
Committee Chairperson for Earth Day/Arbor Day at Clayton School

Students at the Richard Rice Elementary School in Marlton, NJ are decorating 400 bags for Earth Day. Our local Genuardi's Family Food Store donated the bags and our students will prepare them and they will be distributed on Friday.
Mary Horvath
Third Grade Teacher
Rice Elementary

I am from El Paso Elementary in Derby, Kansas. Our whole school has participated in the grocery bags project. We are a k-5 building and we have approximately 380 students. The Derby Food 4 Less donated the grocery bags for us.
Sincerely,
Dana McCreath
First Grade Teacher, El Paso Elementary
900 E. Crestway, Derby, KS 67037

Bags decorated: 450
Comments: James Leitch is a K-2 school and all of our students have decorated grocery bags from Lucky's which will returned in time to to used on Earth Day.The students had a great time doing this and the community will be reminded of a very important day.
Mary Lou Kroes
James Leitch School
Fremont, CA

I happened upon your website about the Earth Day paper bags and guess what... my school has done this project this year, too! I teach at the Alabama School for the Deaf in Talladega, AL and I read about this idea in an environmental brocure. Our elementary and Jr. High students decorated one or two bags each and we will be returning them to the local Winn Dixie store next week. We displayed the decorated bags at our school's Social Studies Fair last week so that everyone could admire them before returning them to the grocery store. Thanks for the neat website!
Happy Trails!
Margaret Wade
"Earth laughs in flowers."
- Emerson

The students at Centinela Elementary School in Inglewood, California prepared 600 Earth Day Grocery bags, which were distributed by our local Ralph's Supermarket. We loved the project and plan to participate again next year!
Anne Jones
first grade teacher

Bags decorated: 500
Louise Roberts
Westmoreland Elementary School
Trucksville, PA USA

Bags decorated: 100
Camilla Hester-Alvaro
Cub Scout Pack 464
Walnut Creek, CA

Bags decorated: 1152
The students at our school (k-3rd) enjoyed making the Earth Day Grocery bags and look forward to seeing them passed out to our community on Earth Day. They also enjoyed learning about the rain forest, making paper, and other projects they did in connection with Earth Day.
BRENDA CARPENTER
JACK JACKTER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
COLCHESTER, CT USA

Bags decorated: 115
Christine Richardson
Oakland Beach School
Warwick,RI 02886 USA

Bags decorated: 160
We had 2 second grades, a third grade and my fourth grade decorate the bags. What a fun project!!! The children learned the importance of recycling, and taking care of the earth and their environment. We plan on doing it again next year!!!
Ranee Woodall
Jan Work, Carol MacLean, Cindi Ulen
Borah Elementary
Coeur d'Alene, ID U.S.A.

Bags decorated: 480
Lynn Ann Bouker
Willapa Elementary
Willapa City, Washington

Bags decorated: 438
This project began with our two classrooms but then we decided to extend it schoolwide. What a great idea that was! The students enjoyed decorated the bags for Earth Day. The local grocery store was very cooperative and enthusastic. Thank you for the wonderful idea, we plan to continue this project for years to come!
Melissa Kutsulis and Mary Giannoulis
Bridgeview School
Illinois, United States of America

Bags decorated: 800-1000
Were still in the process of getting the bags to decorate, but the bags go out for decoration on Monday! We are proud to be working with our community.
Sharon Hooper
Plum Grove Junior High
Rolling Meadows, Il 60008

Bags decorated: 212
Comments: We walked to our local grocery store, cleaned up their parking lot and the banks of the creek that runs behind the store, and then obtained the bags from the store manager. Most of our bags were decorated at our booth at our school's annual environmental fair. This was an enormous success with enthusiastic support! We'll do it again next year.
Dave Budgar/Katie Paxton/Nancy Johnstone
Quest Elementary School
Hilton, New York, USA

The students and staff of the Claypit Hill Elementary School in Wayland, Massachusetts would like to report that we decorated 575 bags this year, our third year in the project. This year, we had the generous support of Nature's Heartland Market of Wayland. They will distribute our bags on Earth Day. Many of our students and families are planning on doing some shopping that day! Thanks for the great project and the chance to help our Earth. Happy Earth Day!
Charlene Griffin

Eastview Elementary School's Computer Club sponsored this event. The K-5 student body decorated 300+ bags. These bags will be used at the Lo Bill grocery store during Earth week. Our project made the front page of our newspaper and was added to their web news at http://www.connersvillein.com/insidenews.asp?ID=7356
There you can also see a photo of second graders decorating their bags.
Cindy Newton and Sue Ann Kanorr, club sponsors
First Grade, Eastview Elementary
Connersville, Indiana

Bags decorated: 200
Thank you for the wonderful idea of the grocery bags, and your other other ideas on your website.
Stella Letras
Mechanicsville Elementary
Westminster, Maryland USA

We at Chapin Street School in Ludlow, Massachusetts have taken on the earthday bag event. We decorated 200 bags for the Big-Y Grocery store in our town. Thanks for the wonderful ideas. We had fun with this.
Betsy Koscher

Bags decorated: 300
Comments: We have our bags from our grocers! We start coloring on Monday, April 19. We have lots to do to celebrate earth week all week. Our little artists are looking forward to creating Earth Day bags.
Tim Brunner
Hillcrest Elementary School
Ellsworth, WI

Hi! I just wanted to let you know that our school district, The Hermitage School District, has been decorating grocery bags for Earth Week since 1990. Each year students at Artman Elementary, Grades K-2 and Hermitage Elementary, Grades 3-4, decorate approximately 1000 bags and return them to D'Onofrios grocery store during Earth Week.
We discovered that one bag was still being used 9 months later!! A farmer picks up our newspapers at school to use for cow bedding. Someone brought their papers in a decorated bag. The cycle continues.
Nancy Bires

Bags decorated: 143
Comments: Rogers Elementary School includes 4th and 5th grades. The grocery bags were donated by Kroger in Pekin, Illinois. They will be distributed on Earth Day. We enjoyed this project and are anxious to go to Krogers on Earth Day to check on the distribution of our bags.
Laura Hughbanks
Rogers Elementary School
Marquette Heights, Illinois 61554 USA

Bags decorated: 250
Mrs.Santana
Williams Elementary
Austin, Texas

Bags decorated: 300
Mrs. Pittman's 4th Grade Class
North Elementary
White Settlement, Texas/USA

Bags decorated: 200
Alicia Gismondi/Pat Sienicki-Jackson
Chartiers Valley Intermediate School
Pittsburgh, PA

Thank you for thinking of this project! Our third grade classes here at the Grace Farrar Cole School in Norwell, Massachusetts loved decorating the bags.
Our total was 183 decorated bags which we returned today, Fri. the 16th to Star Market.
We are studying ways we can make a difference and this project really fit in well!
Sincerely,
Linda C. Joy
3rd Grade Teacher, Cole School, Norwell, MA

Bags decorated: 130
Comments: We enjoyed participating in your Earth Day Grocery Bag Project. We are delivering our bags to Bi-Lo in Fountain Inn, South Carolina. Hopefully we can help spread the message of protecting our planet Earth!
Sincerely,
Cindy Owens
Fountain Inn Elementary
Fountain Inn, South Carolina

Thank you for the great idea for Earth Day. Our second grade class at Grafton Bethel Elementary in Yorktown, Virginia is participating in the school-wide project.
Mrs. Blanton's Class

Bags decorated: 9
Kim Rogers
Howe Elementary
Howe, Texas, USA

Bags decorated: about 400
We're writing to you from the Lancaster School, in Lancaster NH. We are located in northern NH. We just decorated about 400 bags and brought them to our local Butson's Marketplace. We had lots of fun decorating the bags and we hope it will inform and get people to help clean our earth.
Sincerely,
Lancaster School
Grade 5
Lancaster NH USA

Bags decorated: 15
Miss Sandra Crawford
Oakley Park Public school
Barrie, Ontario Canada

Bags decorated: 100
I wanted to do a project in recognition of Earth Day! Thank you so much for the idea. The children in the fourth grade class had so much fun decorating the bags. I know this will be a project that is continued for years to come!!!
Sharon O'Donnell
Tinc Road School
Mt. Olive, New Jersey

Bags decorated: 400
Comments: Our Elementary students along with the 7th, 8th and 9th graders all decorated a grocery bag for the Earth Day Grocery bag project. Totalled aprroximately 400 grocery bags. They were returned to our local grocery store and will be distributed the week of Earth Day ( April 19 - 23).
The students thoroughly enjoyed this activity and I think the community will enjoy receiving a bag with such special art work. A news release will be in our local paper on Wednesday, April 21 - including photo's of students coloring their bags. I will send a photo when mine return from the developers. Super project!! Thanks for sharing the idea.
Susan Oligmueller
Miller School
Miller, SD 57373 USA

St. Bernard School 20 School St.
Rockville,CT. 06066
has decorated 500 bags ( grades K-8 ). The bags were donated by SHAWS Super Market of Vernon, CT.
Roger Lord

Bags decorated: 300
We are decorating almost 300 bags to be used at a local Piggly Wiggly store on Apr. 22. We used the Earth templates from the website and I printed up stickers saying that the bags were decorated by students at Central Elementary. Our school helps the earth all year long with our can recycling activity.
Carol Addison
Central Elementary
Phenix City, AL

Bags decorated: 151
Comments: We decorated our earthday bags at a schoolwide assembly on the morning of April 16. We had a great time. The children did a wonderful job!
Krietta Phillips and Christine Tullgren
Waitsfield Elementary
Waitsfield,VT

Bags decorated: 90 Bags
Comments: At Flickinger, we will be cleaning up the playground. We are also getting bags from Kroger, just like other schools. We all think Earth Day is a great way to save our polluted world.
Donna Christina
Flickinger Elementry
Utica,Michigan,USA

Just wanted to let you know that The Center For the Arts and Sciences, 200 Congress, Saginaw, Michigan, decorated and will have distributed over 400 grocery bags through the Kessel's store on State Street in Saginaw. Happy Earth Day!
William A. Thibodeau
The C.A.S.
200 Congress
Saginaw, Michigan 48602

Bags decorated: 100 Comments: We decorated the bags as part of our recycling unit and returned them to our small rural grocery store to be ditributed on Earth Day 1999.
Sharon Turley
Krueger Elem. Marion ISD
Marion, TX

Bags decorated: 400
Comments: This is a very exciting project!! The students in the school really enjoyed decorating the grocery bags. Everyone who shops at Walbaums in Baldwin on Earth Day will know that the students at Brookside School care about the environment.
Michelle Kiley
Brookside School
Baldwin, New York, USA

Bags decorated: 300
Comments: This is our 1st year to participate in this wonderful program! This goes along with our block environmental project which involes our five teachers. Along with our other projects, such as studying the environments of other countries, making recycled paper, and making individual landfills! Thanks for the oportunity for giving our kids to give to our community a way to express important earth day messages!
Kathy Swank
Blackhawk Middle School
Fort Wayne, IN, 46815 USA

This entire week our K5's,1st, and 2nd graders have been reading Earth Day books, learning out environmental studies, and getting pumped up about going to our local Pick-N-Save Grocery Store to pass out their bags. We will start making our bags on Monday. This kids just love it!!!
Jerry Cigliana
Cass Street School--Milwaukee Public Schools
Milwaukee, Wisconsin,USA

Bags decorated: 400
Comments: This was a great follow up activity for my class. They have been studying Rachel Carson and the environment (wetlands, rainforest, tide pools...) Then to finish off, I put them in charge of this school wide awareness project. The students were very excited and we're expecting a big turn out at our local Grand Union.
It was hard covering up all the writing on the bags without using anything that would rub off on car seatsor a lot of construction paper.Any suggestions??
Amy Randolph
High Mountain Road School
Franklin Lakes, NJ USA

Bags decorated: 1000
We are a K - 8 school in northern Massachusetts, about 30 miles from Boston. This is our first year with the Earth Day Groceries Project, but our students have really enjoyed getting involved. All of the C.G.S. students will be looking forward to shopping at our local Market Basket during the week of Earth Day. We are grateful to Market Basket for agreeing to take on this project with us. We expect to make this an annual school-wide event!
Kim Cochrane Cosgrove
Comprehensive Grammar School
Methuen, MA 01844

Bags decorated: 500
This is our favorite Earth Day Project! So simple, but such a great way to share our environmental messages with our community.Great idea!
Karen Johnson
Callahan Elementary
Callahan, Florida

Bags decorated: 380 bags
Comments: The students at St. Francis Xavier Elementary School are very happy to participate in the Earth Day Grocery Bag Project. Every student decorated a bag, the kindergarten class decorated three bags each because they were so excited to spread the word about Earth Day. We gave our bags to two Ralph's stores in Burbank. At our school we collect cans and paper throughout the year. Kindergarten also creates pieces of art from recycled materials---we make toy trucks and trains from tissue boxes, crayon holders from juice cans, etc..
Anne Wargo
Burbank, California

Bags decorated: 300
Everyone was very excited about joining the Project this year and we look forward to making it a year event. Grades K-4 participated and the children had a ball decorating the bags. Our sponsor was Taylor's IGA Store in Carlyle, Illinois who also donated trees to be given out to the children who decorated bags. What a great way to encourage community relations.
Mrs. Judy L. Smith
Breese-Beckemeyer Elementary District #12
Breese, Illinois

I teach a small combined third and fourth class. We will be doing 20 bags.
Wendy Braun
St. Anne's Catholic in Monterey, IN 46960

Bags decorated: 600
Robin Wargo
Van Buren Elementary
Indio, CA

Bags decorated: 225
St. Joseph's School in Croton Falls, New York is a small Pre-K through 8th grade parochial school located in Westchester County. This is the second year we have participated in the Earth Day grocery bag project. Each student from Pre-k through grade 8 carefully decorates his/her own bag. Some classes work with their buddy class. This is when younger children are paired with older students. Last year our principal received a call from someone who had received one of our decorated grocery bags. She was so pleased with the special Earth Day message she received that she had to call to tell her.
Nancy Malcolm
ST. Joseph's School
Croton Falls, New York

Just wanted you to know that we have expaned our Earth Day Program from the first grade only in 1998 to school wide in 1999. We will be docorating 660 grocery bags for distribution in our community of Perrine, Florida. The Jacksonville, FL Grocery Bag council was donated the bags, shipping & handling. They are great!! I'll let you know how it turns out. We are in the decorating process now.
Kristi Saunig
R.R. Moton elementary School
Miami, FL

Bags decorated: 300
Karen Watkins
Santa Maria Middle School
Phoenix, Arizona

Bags decorated: 65
Comments: Thank you Albertson's of Killeen for donating bags to our school in nearby Copperas Cove. You were very supportive of this project and did not hesitate to help! The 2nd grade decorated 85 bags total including the ones mentioned below.
Ms. Prestridge, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Ortiz
Mae Stevens Elementary
Copperas Cove, TX

Bags decorated: 250
Comments: What a great project! This is our first time participating. Three eighth grade teams will be involved. We hope to get the whole schoo grades 6-8 involved next year. Our local Kroger store provided the paper bags and we very supportive of the project. The students are excited to have their messages and art work given to the public.
Katherine Shelton
Perry Middle School
Perry, Georgia United States

Hello Mr. Ahlness, I'm writing from Warrensburg Elementary School in Warrensburg, N.Y. I read about your project in Copycat magazine, approached our principal, Mr. Lawson, and the project was enthusiastically accepted by all. Our local Grand Union, under management of Mr. Oathout and the IGA owned by Mr. Toney, donated the bags. I'm proud to say we decorated 668 . It is a great idea and the kids did a wonderful job.
Best wishes, Glenda Garcia

Bags decorated: 60
Comments: Our local grocery store, Grand Union,in Landing, NJ, was kind enough to donate 60 bags to our 4 classes to decorate for Earth Day. They plan to display the bags before handing them out to customers. Our children drew pictures for recycling, saving animals, and to conserve tree.
G.Laemers,R.Scherr,L.Hill,D. Reed
Durban Ave. School
Hopatcong,NJ

Bags decorated: 26
Comments: We talked about Earth Day and what we could do to make a difference. Then we decorated our bags. We can't wait to go to the store & check them out!
Room 12 students (Third grade)
James B. Rolle Elem
Yuma, Ariz.

Bags decorated: 570
Kellie Vigilant
Pine Tree Elementary
Lake Orion, Michigan

Bags decorated: 31
Comments: Great project! My students loved it and we hope to involve the entire school next year!!!! My second grade students at St. Joan of Arc School in Canton, Ohio, decorated 31 grocery bags. They plan on recycling them by having their parents reuse them on their next grocery store trip.
Sharon Ritchey
St. Joan of Arc
Canton, Ohio

Bags decorated: 385
Comments: 385 bags were decorated by Kdg. through 5th graders. Bags were donated by Finke's Pleasant Ridge IGA store.
Lynda Deuble
Woodford Paideia Elementary School
Cincinnati, Ohio USA

Bags decorated: 400
Leigh Donermeyer
Lowell School
401 Maple Avenue Madison, WI 53704

Bags decorated: 725
Darlinda Rogers
Ramirez Elementary
Lubbock, TX 79401

Bags decorated: 200
Comments: What a terrific project for our students to help celebrate the wonderful gift that God has given us---- the Earth! Thanks for sending the information about Earth Day Bags out to all of us. We also would like to thank Albertsons in San Angelo,Texas for assisting us.
Janine Hasty
Angelo Catholic School
San Angelo, Texas

Bags decorated: 500
Comments: Thanks for the great idea. The students really enjoyed decorating the bags. Although Earth Day is during our vacation, the children know that they will be building community awareness on April 22nd! Thanks again for the opportunity!
Susan Teixeira
Worcester Arts Magnet School
Worcester, MA

Bags decorated: 800
Comments: This was a great idea. The whole school got behind this project and the grocery store we worked with couldn't have been happier when they got all of our bags.
Rachel Snyder
Pleasant Hill Elementary School
Kissimmee, FL USA

Bags decorated: 520
Comments: This is our first year participating in the Earth Day Project. Our local Town and Country Grocery store on Central Avenue in Portage, In was able to provide us with bags for our entire school. They are also allowing us to have large 3'x4' signs for their windows that celebrate Earth Day. Each grade level in our building ( Grades K -5) is making 1 sign. Thank you for the wonderful idea.
Joyce Martinez
Aylesworth Elementary School
Portage, IN, USA

Bags decorated: 407
Merrie Whiting
Williams -Edison
Flint, Mi.United States

Bags decorated: 500
Comments: Our whole school is involved in the Earth Day grocerey bags all from the fifth grade, to the eighth grade. It all started when my mom and I were coming home from an Olympia field trip, and we noticed all of the litter along the freeways and highways. My mom talked to my teacher, Mrs. Christensen, about it. She had the same thought about the litter as my mom did. Then, my teacher somehow heard of this groceries thing. So now the whole school is doing it and it's really fun!
Joyce Christensen
Laurin Middle School
Vancouver, WA USA

Bags decorated: 33
Michael Loy
Van Buren Elementary
Indio California

Bags decorated: 200
Comments: I am very excited to hear about a project of this type. I am pleased to take part in this type of project.
Keith Ess
Parley Coburn Elementary
Elmira, New York, USA

We are from F.P. Donnelly Elementary School in Conklin, N.Y. and we are going to participate in decorating paper bags given to us from our local grocery store called Reliable. There 26 people in our class and 25 people in the other 4th grade class. In total, 51 bags will be decorated and reused on Earth Day 1999.
Donnelly Elementary

Bags decorated: 26
Comments: Our 2nd-3rd grade class decorated grocrey bags for Big Bear. Most of us put a world on it. All of them are very colorful. Almost all of them said save the earth. We are studying the rain forest, so that taught us a lot of facts about trees. We really got into the project.
Cheryl Rice
Norwich Elementary
Hilliard,OH,USA

SEAFORD HARBOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL located in SEAFORD, NEW YORK, received bags from Pathmark, in Seaford and returned 650 BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED BAGS in honor of our great EARTH!
Sincerely,
Melissa Cestro and Amy Christian
SEAFORD HARBOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Seaford, New York

Bags decorated: 200
Robert Ulrich
Red Cedar Elementary School
East Lansing, Michigan 48823

Bags decorated: 850
Comments: We received our bags from Freestate Giant in Bowie, MD. The entire school - K through 6, decorated the bags in their science classes. Great idea!
Teresa Sadeghin
Samuel Ogle Science, Math, Technology Magnet
Bowie, MD

Bags decorated: 500
Comments: Our school is 100% participating in the Earth Day Groceries project by coloring bags for the Cinnaminson Acme. So instead of using regular bags, they are going to use our SCB colored ones.
Mrs. Campbell
St. Charles Borromeo School
Cinnaminson, NJ USA

Bags decorated: 448
Comments: This is the first time that our school has participated in this project, however we we certainly be participating each and every year! The local newspaper came and took pictures and we will be in the paper on April 22, Earth Day promoting saving the Earth and this project!
We are all so glad that you had the iniative to start this wonderful project! We are glad that we were apart of it!
Thanks!
Kelly Hess
4th grade teacher
Klein Elementary School
Erie, PA 16510

Bags decorated: 40
My Kindergarten class joined up with Mrs. Armenta's 2nd grade class to send out our Earth day messages. They were very excited! Lucky grocery store in Roseville donated the bags.
Dori Wolfenberger
Quail Glen Elementary School
Roseville, CA, USA

Bags decorated: 700
Comments: this is our third year doing bags.. I was introduced to the idea at a National Geographic Teacher Workshop in Washington DC during the summer of 96.. just read about your site in Science and Children. Add Samuel Staples Elementary School, Easton, CT to your stats.. we are a K-5 school of 650 + students.. ALL classes participated with Shaw's super market in Fairfield, CT... grades K-5 do this together as a science project.. they love it.. as do all the other classes..
Paulette Malay
Samuel Staples School
660 Morehouse Rd.
Easton, CT 06612

Bags decorated: 200
Comments: We are a small but immensely charming private school. All of our students, PK 3-year olds through 6th grade, participated. Our grocery store partner was the Winn-Dixie Marketplace in Bartow, FL.
The students were enthusiastic and took great pride in decorating their bags! It was a fun way to share the Earth Day message!
Lynn Baker
The Oaks School
Bartow, FL USA

Bags decorated: 200
Comments: The students from fourth to sixth grades in our school decorated the Earth Day bags. They were very enthusiastic about promoting environmental awareness and did a terrific job on their slogans and logos. I think they also felt proud to share their concern and respect for our beautiful Earth.
Mrs. Theresa Sarin
St.William the Abbot
2001 Jackson Ave, Seaford,NY 11793 USA

I would like to inform you that our school, Holy Cross Elementary School, in Marine City, MI is participating in this project. Our school is a parochial/Catholic School, consisting of 190 students. The school has grades Kindergarten through Eighth Grade. I presented this idea, and all of the staff was more than willing to participate. We've agreed to decorate the grocery bags, during what we call our "Enrichment Time," so the entire student body will be doing the project together. The bags will then be redistributed to our local grocery store, where they are very happy to help us spread the message!
Thank you,
Sincerely,
Ms. Rachel Ward
First Grade Teacher
Holy Cross Elementary School
Marine City, MI 48039

Bags decorated: 200
Comments: What fun we had doing our Earth Day bags. The students are just learning how to use the six new computers we have in our classroom. Many chose to use them in decorating their bags. Happy Earth Day to all.
Mary Price
Athena Elementary School
Athena, Oregon

Bags decorated: 706
Comments: This was our first year decorating the bags. The children had a lot of fun and had some wonderful ideas. We look forward to going shopping at Newfield Grade A on Earth Day! Teachers also enjoyed this and we are planning on doing it again next year!
Susan McGuire
Springdale School
Stamford Ct

Bags decorated: 312
Comments: GREAT IDEA! THE STUDENTS ENJOYED DONG THE BAGS AND THE COMMUNITY WAS VERY COOPERATIVE.
LANA BAKER
BURBANK ELEM

Bags decorated: 148
Comments: We are using this real data from all schools to learn how to use a spreadsheet program.
Mary DeCoy
Sultan Middle School
Sultan, Washington 98294

Bags decorated: 55
Mrs. Lori Watson, Mrs. Mary Anne Pageau, Mrs. Mary Barnes
Chateaugay Central School
Chateaugay, NY 12920

Bags decorated: 20
Comments: We think that the Earth Day Grocery bag project is a very good way to get people involved with Earth Day.We enjoyed using your website to help give us ideas before decorating our bags.
Mr. Tuttle's Class
Noble Elementary School
Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Bags decorated: 150
Comments: On our Earth Day sacks, we write about "our little corner of the world". This is the place outside that each student loves the most. Last year, we received mail from consumers that had their groceries bagged with one of our sacks. They thanked us for sharing "our little corner of the world" with them. We are excited about participating in Earth Day 99 again!
Lisa Williamson
Ashville Middle School
Ashville, Alabama 35953

Bags decorated: 200
Comments: The Special Needs classes and the six grade classes got together to help educate the people in our community about saving our environment. The students enjoyed making up slogans and decorating their bags.
Mrs. Amy Ewing
Neil A. Armstrong Middle School
Fairless Hills, PA ,USA

Bags decorated: 1025
Garden Street Elementary School in Brewster, NY (U.S.A.) participated in this Earth Day Grocery Project. The students at the school decorated 1025 paper grocery bags with environmental messages. On Earth Day April 22nd these bags will be used to pack groceries to shoppers from our Local A&P. Besides carrying an environmental message, each bag has the name of the school and some wonderful artwork. This is the first year that this educational effort has been coordinated on the Internet nationwide!
Vicki Hershfield
Garden Street School
Brewster, NY U.S.A.

Bags decorated: 400
Comments: At Martin Kellogg Middle School in Newington, CT we had a great time decorating bags in grades 5-8. We will bring the bags to Super Food Mart in Newington 0n April 15th, 1999.
JaneCallery
Martin Kellogg School

Bags decorated: 500
Dear Earth Day Grocery Bags Staff,
I first heard of your project in the Weekly Reader magazine. I was delighted to stumble across a free, simple, environmentally sound project. With only five days until our Spring Break, I thought I would keep the project small. Much to my suprise, word spread and before I knew it four ACES schools were participating. Comments from teachers, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, art teachers and teacher assistants have been nothing but positive!!! Even the most physically and mentally challenged students created awesome bags using stamps and sponge painting. The students in my room also studied slogans and advertising! The local Stop and Shop was thrilled to participate. Thanks again!
Sincerely,
Donna Durand
Area Cooperative Educational Services
Hamden, CT. 06517

Bags decorated: 160
Comments: Hi! Our school, Vivian Banks Charter School, is a k-5 school located on an the Pala Indian Reservation in Northern San Diego County. It is the only public school in California that is also located in a historic California Mission. This was our first year participating in this project. All of our students decorated a paper grocery bag for Earth Day ( a total of 160 bags). We obtained our bags from a Ralphs store in a nearby town, Escondido. Our school was featured in a local newspaper that was doing a write-up about Earth Day. We would like to thank Ralphs for donating the bags to our school, and we hope that their customers enjoyed our art work. We look forward to participating in this project again next year! Happy Earth Day from the students at our school!
Dome Galvez
Vivian Banks Charter School
Pala, California

Bags decorated: 750
Comments: One of our fourth grade teachers suggested the project and had students first write on a section of the grocery bag to tell Earth facts or ways to care for our Earth. Then fourth grade students collected the bags for an editing project. Finally, the bags were returned to the classes for the students to add their artwork. Therefore, when the bags are taken to the grocery (Granville IGA) they will have written messages and artwork.
Carolyn Gibson
Granville Elementary
Granville, OH

Bags decorated: 967
Comments: Happy Earth Day Earthlings! We have had a great time again this year participating in the Earth Day Groceries Project. Every student has drawn beautiful pictures on the grocery bags with wonderful Earth Day messages. We doubled the amount of bags that we decorated this year too. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to celebrate Earth Day this way! We love our EARTH!
Bartlett Elementary Environmental Club
Bartlett,Tennessee
Becky Cross
Bartlett Elementary School
Bartlett, TN United States

Bags decorated: 500+
I will submit our activities next week.
C. Stewart Stafford
Bowley Elementary School
Fort Bragg, North Carolina

Happy Earth Day, 1999!

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