Earth Day Groceries Reports from 1999

Earth Day Groceries, 1999 Reports

This is Part 3, with reports from schools 201 -300.
Updated April 25,1999.

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: 620
Comments: We truly enjoyed this project.
Lorraine Eberhardt and Barbara Steckhahn
Mahal F. Atchison School
Tinton Falls, New Jersey

Bags decorated: 400
We are the largest elementary school in Bergen county, NJ and the kids have been having a great time decorating bags for the local ACME. All of the third, fourth and fifth grade classes are participating and some of the younger children as well. We look forward to getting the message out and hope to participate again next year.
Cathy Rittereiser
ACS Elementary School
Highland Street, Leonia, NJ 07605, USA

Bags decorated: 500
Comments: Our school partnered with the community Market Basket and Kroger stores to decorate 500 bags. All of the students in grades Pre-K - 5th grades participated in this worthwhile project. Each student was given 2 bags which were colored using Earth Days slogans and pictures. The bags were then sent to the stores to be handed out on Earth Day.
Peggy Blanchard
D.A. Combre Elementary School
Lake Charles, Louisiana USA

Bags decorated: 1900
Comments: Thames Elementary School in Hattiesburg, MS is a K to 4 school with over 1000 students. We decorated Earth Day bags for Jitney Jungle and Albertsons totaling approximately 1900 bags. Students delivered the bags to the stores today, April 19th. The students had a great time designing each bag with Earth Day slogans such as, Protect the Rainforests, Save the Gray Wolves, and Keep our Gulf Coast clean. This project is great and we enjoy participating each year.
Joanne Oshrin
2900 Jamestown Rd.
Hattiesburg, MS

Bags decorated: 460
Comments: Our students participated in many different things for Earth Day. The bags were a great idea, and some of our teachers had students decorate them with their buddy classes.(Usually older students paired with younger)
Jill Schukow-Hodges
U.S. Grant School 1528 N. 5th St.
Sheboygan,WI

Bags decorated: 470
Comments: This is our first year participating in the program. We hope to continue our involvement next year.
Theresa D'Amato
Parmenter Elementary School
Franklin, MA 02038, USA

Bags decorated: 212
Comments: I was very excited to find this project because it is such an easy way to get my students involved in community service and Earth Day. We spent two days of science class decorating our bags and the majority of my 6th and 7th graders had a great time doing it. I was very impressed with some of their very creative ideas. This is a wonderful idea and I encourage other teachers to give it a try.
Carol Krueger
Rosemary Clark Middle School
Pahrump, Nevada

Bags decorated: 250
Comments: Our school is located next to a grocery named Rulli Bros. They lent us 250 bags to decorate. On the 21st we presented them with the bags, a certificate, and a huge sign saying "Lynn Kirk first graders have recycling in the bag." What fun!
Sandra Metts
Lynn Kirk School
Austintown, Ohio 44515

Bags decorated: 16
Thomas J. Quigley
Clara E. Westropp Elementary School

Bags decorated: 800
Comments: All students, K-6, decorated grocery bags donated by J.M. Bauersfeld's grocery store. This is our third year we've participated. The grocery store was very excited about the project!
Tracy Kerth
Jay Shideler Elementary
Topeka, Ks 66610

Bags decorated: 120
Comments: Wow I love this project. What fun and excitement to involve the community and the schools .
Sue Madole
Truman
Norman,Ok

Bags decorated: 500
Comments: We are located in Southwest Florida on the Caloosahatchee River--which leads into the Gulf of Mexica. Our students in grades K-5 enjoyed creating Earth Day messages and decorations on 500 bags. Our local PUBLIX grocery store will be using the bags to pack groceries on Earth Day.
SANDRA RUDOLPH
Skyline Elementary School
Cape Coral, Florida

Bags decorated: 25
Mr. Kulp
James Foster Elementary
Saugus, CA, U.S.A.

Mrs. Fraseur and Mrs. Farr's Social Studies classes at Ray Miller Elementary School,2010 E. Normal, Kirksville, Mo. 63501( fourth grade)participated in the paper bag project. We had 92 children each make one bag. We had a wonderful time on a beautiful day, drawing at the picnic tables at our school. Thank you for including us in the count!
Mrs. Farr

Bags decorated: 139
Comments: Three fourth grade classes and one third grade class participated in this program. We were given bags from IGA grocery store. 139 bags were decorated and returned to the store to be used. We think this is a neat program. Our students enjoyed this.
Carol Fruechte
Clark Elementary
Evanston, WY USA

Bags decorated: 63
Comments: Public School 10X @J101X is a Special Education school in the New York City Board of Education, part of District 75. This is our first Earth Day participation.
Philip Navarrete
Public School 10X @ J101X
Bronx, New York, USA

Bags decorated: 350
Comments: Fun project! Thank you for your organizational help and time.
C. Paulsell
Tchefuncte Middle School
Mandeville, Louisiana USA

Bags decorated: 143
Comments: Great project!We found out about it kind of late. We plan to do more bages next year.
Shawna Crocker
Ricks Center for Gifted Cilderen
Denver CO USA

Bags decorated: 50
Comments: I received 50 bags from Wilb Walkers and will have the kids design their bags today. Hopefully there will be a large interest in the project. Thanks
Mike Jersey
Charleston Teen Reach
Charleston, IL

Our school located in New Lexington , Ohio is decorating bags for Earth Day 1999. We have gotten 650 grocery bags from our local Kroger store and we will be returning them to the store on Wed. for distribution on Thursday. We are a small school in southern Ohio, we are located in Perry County and would like to be included on your map. My name is Janice Coleman.

Bags decorated: 32
Our first grade did this wonderful project in art class. We had a lot of fun and we learned many things about how to save save our planet. Next year we hope to have more classes participate and to send in a picture of our work. Thank you for letting us know about this event.
Cheryl Dyer
Holy Redeemer School
College Park, MD 20740

Bags decorated: 400
Comments: The student's at St. Joseph's School in Keyport, New Jersey enjoyed participating in the fifth annual Earth Day Groceries Project. 400 students in grades K-8 decorated the donated Edward's Supermarket bags with environmental messages. On Earth Day, April 22, the bags were used to pack the groceries of Edward's shoppers. Besides carrying an environmental message, each bag had the St. Joseph School name and wonderful artwork. The people in our neighborhood were able to see a very clear and positive message that the student's at St. Joseph care about the environment.
Stephanie Jumper
St. Joseph's School
Keyport, New Jersey

Bags decorated: 500
Comments: We are excited to be taking part in this project! We are a school with 513 students in grades K-2, with 1 preschool class. We are working together with our local Food Lion.
Kathy Hensinger
South Smithfield Primary School
Smithfield, NC

Our school (College Park Elementary, 2617 Ladnier Road, Gautier, MS 39553) participated in the grocery bag project. We decorated approximately 585 bags. The students really enjoyed it! Jitney Jungle and Jerry Lee's Grocery (both in Gautier, MS) were the participating stores. We look forward to doing this again next year! Thanks for a great project idea!
Sincerely,
Rita Erwin
Project Coordinator and First Grade Teacher
College Park Elementary School

Students in grades K-3 of Dumont Elementary School (Madeira City School System) decorated 400 bags with Earth Day messages for the Madeira Kroger Store. It was a fun project and the kids felt great about doing something positive for the earth!
Submitted by: Fran Wilson
Dumont Elementary
7840 Thomas Drive
Madeira, OH 45243

Bags decorated: 225
Comments: We decorated bags for the Kroger store managed by Chuck Rogers at Highway 92 and Trickum Road in Marietta, Georgia. All five of our third grade classes participated. The children had a wonderful time with this project and are looking forward to going and getting an Earth Day bag on Earth Day. It was great fun!
MARIE BARTLING
KEHELEY ELEMENTARY
MARIETTA, GEORGIA 30066

Bags decorated: 60
Comments: We really enjoyed decorating our bags!!! We hope the Earth Day shoppers will also enjoy them. We hope to do this project again next year.
Kindergarten Teachers
Blue Bell Elementary School
Blue Bell Pennsylvania

Bags decorated: 700
Diane Nuetzmann
Columbia Elementary
Mukilteo, WA USA

Bags decorated: 23
Comments: My cooperating teacher, Mrs. Hoffman found this idea in the magazine, Science and Children. I thought it was a wonderful idea and the students loved it.
Anne Jensby
Woodrow Wilson
Manhattan, KS USA

Comments: This is our first year to participate with this wonderful project. Students in grades K-6 will be decorating the bags. I am anxious to see the communities response! I hope to make this an annual event at our school.
Jody Stouffer
Maiden Elementary School
Maiden, NC

Bags decorated: 200
Linda Ketchum
Village Pines School
Miami, Florida

Bags decorated: 400
We think that it is very important to take care of our Earth. We have read a lot about this special day. Your project idea is a great way to help people in the community remember Earth Day. We had a lot of fun doing the project!
Melissa Dorchak
Ridgeway School
White Plains, New York

Students at Ramsey Elementary have decorated 1200 grocery bags from LeTourneaus's Super Valu Store that will be used during the week of Earth Day. A large banner was also made by the students and it will be hung in the store window during the week. The program was coordinated by the Student Council and Student Committee. (Minnesota)
Gordy Sironen

Greetings from Germany! I am reporting from Landstuhl, Germany. We are a Department of Defense K-8 school. We participated in the earthday decorating idea. The bags were donated from Ramstein Commissary at Ramstein Air Base. The students decorated 445 bags with enviromental awareness messages.
It was a great project and the students enjoyed doing it.
Thank you
Laurie Kline
Science Teacher
Landstuhl Elementary/Middle School

Dear Sirs, Students at Chatham Elementary School are gearing up for the "grocery Bag" Earth-Day recycling project. All students are busily decorating bags as we speak. Our specs are:
Chatham Elementary School 100 Chatham Elementary Lane P. O. Box 531 Chatham, VA 24531 (804)432-6461 (804)432-2227 (fax)
Principal: Ms. Diane Mangus Contact: Mr. Terry A. Payne (grade 1)
Efforts are being coordinated by Mr. Payne's first grade class We will deliver the bags to our local grocery store on Wednesday afternoon. Will forward pics. Thanks for the GREAT IDEA!
visit our school web-site: www.pcs.k12.va.us

Bags decorated: 250
Michelle Chapman
Chauncey Elementary
Athens, Ohio

Bags decorated: 250
Comments: We incorporated this project into a one-day seminar at a local state park. Fifth grade students visited different stations at which Earth Day topics were discussed by professionals in that area. My fifth grade Sage (gifted and talented) class was responsible for one station. I saw your project on the internet and thought that it would be a great idea for us! Our local Kroger store provided the sacks and seemed excited to be a participant, also. Thanks for a great way for our students to express their feelings about Earth Day in a way which will be shared with so many people!
Vanda Hollensworth
Central Elementary School
Magnolia, Arkansas

Bags decorated: 1800
Comments: Unionville Elementary School students "borrowed" 1800 bags from three area grocery stores. 600 bags from Acme Markets, 600 bags from Super Fresh, and 600 bags from Giant Grocery Store. We are a K-3 building and this is our first year decorating bags for Earth Day. The students were excited and proud to share what they know about environmental education with our community. The store managers were very enthusiastic and impressed with the art work that our students produced.
Jean Krudener
Unionville Elementary School
Kennett Square, PA 19348

Bags decorated: 50
Sandy Egner
Cub Scouts Wolf Den 2 Pack 81
Plainfield, IL

Bags decorated: 225
Comments: Our school enjoyed the opportunity to participate in this project. We got the bags from our local grocery store, Safari Market. We also will be having an all school assembly to say the Earth Day Pledge, sing Earth Day Songs, and in general celebrate the day.
Carol Frey
Bristol Grade School
Bristol, Illinois USA

Bags decorated: 300
Comments: The students really enjoyed doing this project and it went along well with our 4-H recycling project we do in our classroom 4-H club "Amick's Recyclers". Thanks for the great idea. Our 4th and 5th graders were happy they got to participate ! Our sponsor, Austin Supermarket, was very cooperative and glad to supply us with the bags.
Linda Amick
Austin Elementary
Austin, In 47102

Bags decorated: 20
This was a great project that the children really enjoyed doing. We made it into a class contest. Thanks, Mrs. Schafle
Mrs. Dawn Schafle
Kigston School, Cherry Hill, NJ
Cherry Hill, NJ

Bags decorated: 25
Mrs. Andrews
Bags decorated: 24
Mrs.Bauer
Grafton Bethel Elementary
York County, Virginia, USA

Hi! This the second year that our school, Shaw Elementary in North Huntingdon, Pa. has participated in the Earthday Groceries Project. The kids had a great time decorating the bags and the local Giant Eagle will be handing out our 150 bags. We have a little school but but we were glad to participate in the project.Also thanks to the American Forest & Paper Association for sending the kids the pogs and paper bags.
Sue Themis

Bags decorated: 730
Comments: This was a very fun project! All the students loved the project!
Deborah Lohr
Iroquois School District
Erie, PA USA

Hi. My name is Mindy Boyd. I teach at Waldron High School in Waldron, Michigan. My husband runs the Hillsdale Market House, a grocery store in Hillsdale. We will be making 92 grocery bags on Tuesday, April 20.
Mindy Boyd

Bags decorated: 225 D.O'Brien
Potowmack Elem.
Sterling, VA U.S.A.

Bags decorated: 280
Comments: Neat project! Wonderful idea and website. The staff at my school were really excited about this and a local grocery store was happy to supply us with more bags than actually needed!
Amy Scott
Woodburn Elementary School
Morgantown, WV USA

Bags decorated: 1,100
Comments: This project was a huge success! Our entire school participated in this projects. We received grocery bags from Albertson and Bashas' grocery stores. We plan to do this project again next year, and with more bags.
Susann Bartlit
Hidden Hills Elementary School
Phoenix, Arizona

Bags decorated: 400
Boyd Drewelow
Fremont School
Delano, CA, USA

Bags decorated: 500
Comments: H.E.B. grocery store in Copperas Cove "loaned "us the bags. Found out about project from Copycat Magazine. Wonderful, easy project! yeah!! The kids love it!!! SUPER!
Beth Pekins
J.L.Williams Elementary
Copperas Cove, Texas U.S.A.

Bags decorated: 500
Heather Edmonson
North East Elementary
Meridian, MS

Our school participated in the Earth Day Groceries Project and we decorated 325 bags. They will distributed through Al & Laura's Foods and Coast to Coast Hardware Store. Our school address is
Fertile-Beltrami School
210 S. Mill St.
Fertile, MN 56540
Joan Kronschnabel

Bags decorated: 500
With the help of our Art teacher, all students from Early Childhood through fifth grade were able to illustrate bags and write earth conscious messages. The students have thanked me for bringing this wonderful project to our school's attention.
Tanya Hughes
Kenwood Elementary
Champaign, IL

St. Rita School, West Allis, WI, decorated 280 grocery bags which will be distributed by two stores - one Pick and Save, the other a small local grocery in the next block from our school. Great idea!
Ann M Foley

Bags decorated: 800
Kathy West
Panter Elementary School
Hiram, Georgia USA

Bags decorated: 20
Dear Project Coordinators,
Be it known that on this day, April 19, 1999, Ms. Ariel Whitney, Age 7, has challenged her class of 20 at Country Springs Elementary School, in Chino Hills, California, to decorate and return 20 grocery bags before Earth Day on April 22 to Ralphs Supermarket in Chino Hills. This challenge will be part of my Earth Day School Project.
Ariel Whitney
Country Springs Elementary School
Chino Hills, California

Bags decorated: 200 +
We will be decorating our bags this week and delivering them to Best Value Zellers Department Store for Thursday. We have 235 students in the school so we hope to get at leat that many decorated. I will give a final count on Wednesday evening. Thanks for such a positive idea. We are all excited about the project.
Marilyn Demers
Battlefield Public School
Naigara Falls Ontario Canada

Comments: We will be picking the bags up tonight. Ralph's market is giving us .05 a decorated bag which we will be donating to the Red Cross for the Children of Kosovo. Thanks for your help.
Patti Hahn
Cloverly School
Temple City, CA

Bags decorated: 200
Comments: This is a wonderful Earth day project. I plan on participating every year.
Janelle Wieszczyk
St. Hyacinth
Dunkirk, NY USA

Bags decorated: 60
Comments: My students really enjoyed working on this project since most of them shop at the local store where they will be on display. On Wednesday, we are planning a walking field trip to the store to view our art work before it goes to the consumers on earth day. In addition, we will be breaking off into groups to check out how many products we can find that are packaged in recycled materials.
Marian Johnson
Buena Vista Arts-integrated School
Montcliair, CA

Bags decorated: 28
Comments: Our 6th grade class enjoyed learning about reuse,reduce and recycle. We were glad we were able to participate in a project that will educate our community about recycling.
Mrs Jones
Valencia Elementary School
Laguna Niguel, California

My name is Brenda Cram, and I teach Kindergarten in Seattle, WA, at a school called Bertschi School. Our school is working with Broadway QFC and we desined 200 bags for Earth Day. Your project is a GREAT ONE!
Thanks, Brenda

Thanks for letting us participate in your project! Our Nottingham School,(2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders), decorated 1500 bags from the local Super Fresh and Acme Grocery stores. We had a blast doing it, and the people in the stores (especially Super Fresh) loved the kids' drawings. It is a great way to get the local businesses and community involved and more aware of what we are teaching the children. I delivered the bags today and they will be distributed from Tuesday through Earth Day to any of the shoppers in the area. We may even get some publicity in the local news! We are a small rural community located about 60 miles southwest of Philadelphia in Chester County, PA. Our Official address is Nottingham Elementary School, 736 Garfield Street, Oxford, PA. 19363. We have 740 children in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades, and I am a fourth grade teacher with internet access at home but not at school. Thanks again!
Stephanie DeMott

Bags decorated: 17
Susan Schigur
Coronado Hill Elementary
Thornton, CO

Bags decorated: 400
Comments: This is the third year we have particpaited in the Earth Day Bag Project. Each year the children and the local Giant Eagle Grocery Store look forward to the project. Tho we are a small school of 350 students, we decorated 400 bags this year. Some of the students voluntarily gave up their recees time to finish up the project. A wonderful project for children to get involved in to show their concern for the environment.
Teresa Soyka
Jackson Elementary School
Mundy's Corner, PA

This is the first year our school, Faith Middle School at Ft. Benning, GA, has participated in the Earth Day Groceries Project. All our science teachers had their students decorate bags from the post commissary where the students' parents shop. One student from each academic team will be involved in a ceremony on Tuesday to present these bags to the commissary manager. This event will be covered by our local post paper. Thanks so much for bringing this activity to my attention via NSTA Reports! We decorated 650 bags.
Jim Matthews

The Welsh Hills School is a pre-K through 8th grade, private, independent, preparatory school of 90 students, where community service and outreach projects are built into its mission and philosophy.
This is our first year to participate in the Groceries Project. All of our students participated in decorating the bags, over a two week period, during our regularly scheduled community service time.
Total number of bags decorated: 100 Participating grocery stores: Granville IGA, Festival Foods, and Meijer
We look forward to making this an annual event, that coincides with our Earth Week activities and celebrations.
Diane Warstler
Lower School Teacher
The Welsh Hills School
2610 Newark Granville Road
Granville, OH 43023
Children FIRST

Bags decorated: 500
Comments: In groups, my kids wrote letters to inform and persuade the managers of a local Food Lion to give us the bags, parents to shop there and request the bags, and to teachers explaining the project and listing the steps in completing it with their classes. Our school has 100% participation from all grades K-5. We're looking forward to getting the bags back to the community!
Lisa Lineweaver
James River Elementary
Williamsburg, VA, USA

Bags decorated: 17
Lynn Coleman
Tumbling Tykes Preschool
Endwell, New York 13850

What a great project! We here at St. Agnes School in Towanda,PA decorated 450 bags. Kindergarten through eighth grade participated, a total of 200 students.
Karen Harris, Science Teacher

Bags decorated: 40
Comments: We found this to be an excellent way to deliver Earth Day awareness. We began small with two primary classes, and plan to extend this to all grades next year.
Sandy Osborne
Ashland Elementary School
Lexington, Kentucky

Bags decorated: 190
Comments: This was a fun project. I'm happy to report to you that the 4th grade students of Riviera Beach Elementary School, Pasadena, Maryland, Anne Arundel County, have decorated 190 bags for the Earth Day Celebration. Teachers, Shirley Wilson and Ruth Baker, have returned the bags for distribution by Lauer's IGA in Riviera Beach. Thanks for a great opportunity to take part in this activity.
Ruth Baker
Riviera Beach Elementary School
Pasadena, Maryland,USA

Bags decorated: 125
Comments: We started this year with 2 fifth grade classes and the Title 1 Reading students in 1-4 grades. Next year, I would like to include the entire school (530 students) by making this an EarthSaver's Project (an after school environmental club that I began 6 years ago.) Good Idea!!!!!!!
Paula Bennett
Fulton Elementary School
Aurora, CO 80010 USA

Bags decorated: 365
Comments: This was a wonderful and easy project. Thank you for all the information, letters to grocers, media, etc., and helpful slogans. This was a wonderful avenue to motivate the student's thinking about Earth Day and conservation. They came up with wonderful slogans and got very enthusiastic about this theme. Now our community will also see how are children care and are worried about the earth and hopefully, they will do their part in this conservation effort. I am very glad we participated in this project and hope to participate again next year.
Julie Bordo
Forest Hills Elementary School
Wilmington NC USA

Bags decorated: 600
Comments: The sixth grade team at Roscommon Middle School has "borrowed 600 grocery bags from Glen's Market, Roscommon, Michigan. Our thanks to Glen's Market as well as to the originators of this great project! Based on this year's success, we hope to expand our reach!
Carol Fitzgerald
Roscommon Middle School
Roscommon, Michigan

I am a substitute teacher for Hancock County Schools in West Virginia. I am currently in a 4th/5th grade position in Newell, West Virginia. I am teaching Science at Jefferson Elementary. My four classes will be decorating 200 bags for Earth Day. Giant Eagle in New Cumberland, West Virginia donated the paper bags. My students are looking forward to celebrating Earth Day.
Thank You.
Sara Lojszczyk
Weirton, West Virginia

Bags decorated: 80
Comments: I saw your presentation at the computer conference in Seattle. Great Idea!
Pat Tibbs
Corvallis Primary
Corvallis, Montana

Bags decorated: 1,000
Comments: This is our second year with this project and has become one of our absolute favorite activities! Thank you to the Pathmark and Giant Food Stores in Brookhaven for their help in the donation and distribution of the bags and to all the students who truly put their best efforts and artistic abilities into this project!
See you next year!
Terri-Anne Reese
Northley Middle School
Aston, PA 19014

Bags decorated: 300
Comments: We held our annual Earth Day event at the Woburn Mall on Saturday April 17th from 10-2. We had 2 dozen displays with one of them being the grocery bag table. The bags were provided by Market Basket in the mall. We had kids of all ages decorating the bags, in all we had 300 decorated. These were turned over to Market Basket by 2:15 for distribution to their customers.
Thanks
Paul A Medeiros
Woburn Recycling Committee
Woburn,MA 01801 USA

I just received my April copy of Science and Children and was delighted to read your article re earth day bags.I didn't realize there was an organized effort. I had heard of the this project (don't remember where though) at least several years ago but had not implemented it until this year. An Acton Earth Day committee member and I sat down in the late fall and decided this was a good project to do in Acton (Massachusetts) with our 5 elementary schools. I am the K-12 Art Director and worked with the elementary art staff to do the project. Acton's E.D. celebration is May 1 since we are on spring break next week. All of the elementary staff received about 100 or so bags (500 - 600 total) that will go back to 3 Acton area supermarkets on April 26 to be used for the week preceding Acton's celebration. The AED committee did the legwork securing the bags and will handle getting them back to the markets.
We did our drawings with markers. Art teachers were free to do this as a challenge activity or to do it with an entire class as a design problem. I wish I had your article and the accompanying poster several months ago. Actually I was just jotting down notes for a possible article about Acton's process and results for one of the art education magazines. Also would like to see this develop into a unit that will become part of the APS art curriculum probably at grade 3 or 4.
I just checked out your web site too - great resource. Have you done this as a presentation for NSTA? If not it would be a great idea - especially appealing as an interdisciplinary unit. I'm an art teacher who loves science - I have one foot in NSTA the other in NAEA.
Thanks!
Diana Adams Woodruff
Visual Arts Director K-12
Acton Public and Acton-Boxborough Regional Schools
16 Charter Road
Acton, MA 01720
978-264-4700

Bags decorated: 300
I read about this during Spring Break and thought it sounded like a great idea. I spoke to my principal, she approved and I went to our local QFC. They gave me a bundle of bags (300). I wasn't sure if our staff would be interested. 4th gr. testing coming, we are working hard to pass our levy, short notice, etc. BUT I ran out of bags. What a wonderful idea, great cause and so much fun! Thanks!
Kathy Beach
Horizons Elementary
Lacey, WA, USA

We decorated 20 grocery bags in our classroom. Grades K-3 were doing this project. K-7 will divide into groups and go around our town on April 22 to pick up trash.
Nancy Renard
Republican Valley Elementary
Indianola,Ne

Bags decorated: 90
Comments: Third grade students at D.G. Cooley Elementary School, Berryville, VA, decorated 90 grocery bags. The bags were donated by Food Lion in Berryville, VA.
Davin Baker
D.G. Cooley Elementary School
Berryville, VA

Bags decorated: 453
Comments: This is the first year for our school to participate in the grocery bag project. The children were very excited to hear that their artwork would be on display for the entire community and also help a wonderful cause at the same time. I am happy to say that I believe that this project will be a great success. We are also very proud that we are going to be decorating 453 bags.
Crista L. Abramson
Twin Hills Elementary
Willingboro, NJ, U.S.A.

Bags decorated: 236
Comments: Students in Kindergarden,First,First Bi-lingual, Second, Third,and Third Bi-lingual,participated in decorating grocery bags. The Jewel on Summit in Elgin was kind enough to donate the bags. I picked them up and returned them to hand out to people. All of the students had a wonderful time decorating and writing messages about keeping our environment clean, and recycling. The students are hoping to take their parents shopping so they can try and find the grocery bag that they decorated. Thank you for this wonderful ideal. I hope to bring it to my entire staff next year so that all of the students at Huff can participate. Thanks Again, Happy Earth Day!
Miss Lewis
Huff Elementary School
Elgin, Illinois 60120, U.S.

Bags decorated: 27
Comments: We wrote poems about nature that we are writing on the bags.
Beth Krambule
Beaverton, Oregon

Bags decorated: 350
Comments: Children in seven of our eight locatioins took part in decorating the Earth Day Grocerie Bags. The bags were tied in to discussions of Earth Day and what it means; also how to take care of our own environment on a daily basis. There are children from Kindergarten through Fifth grade that participate in our program and each site provide services to between 20-34 children daily from Monday through Friday. This is our first year of particiaption and we are really pleased with the response from our children. We will be looking forward to doing this again next year. We also want to thank our local Super Stop and Shop on Newport Ave. in North Quincy for giving us the bags to decorate and being willing to use them to bag the groceries on Earth Day. The manager of the store was very gracious in being willing to participate with Quincy After School Child Care.
Judith Brams
Quincy After School Child Care
Quincy, MA. 02170

Bags decorated: 750
Comments: Our school is decorating 750 grocery bags for a local Food Lion store. Our students are very excited about participating in this important event. Earth Day has always been a unit of study in my classroom. I always emphasize that even though we celebrate Earth Day on the 22nd of April; everyday is really Earth Day. Thanks for letting us have this opportunity. It was GREAT and so worthwhile.
Alta Allen
Pines Elementary School
Plymouth, NC USA

Bags decorated: 30
A.Willett
Our Lady of Victory Senior School
Fort Erie, Ontario

Bags decorated: 600
Comments: The Talented and Gifted students at Southeast Elementary have organized a grocery bag project with one of the local Winn Dixie stores. TAG students have shared the project with all the students from Kindergarten through the 4th grade(approximately 600 students). Each class has been working diligently to prepare bags for the store. TAG students have decorated bags and murals to place in the store for Earth Day '99. It has been a great learning experience for us all and we hope to instill a sense of environmental awareness within the community, as well.
Denise Knight
Southeast Elementary
Meridian, Mississippi

Bags decorated: 230
Comments: The local grocery store where many of the kids shop, Seaman's Market, donated the bags and were very cooperative. All 11 of our classes K-6 participated. The children now want to go to the market to see their bags. We did the Earth Day Bag Project in conjunction with a school-wide reading incentive program call "Reading is Universal." My class chose Earth as their planet for the project. I came across your information while searching the net for Earth related facts. The teachers and children were very receptive to the project. We are a small, rural school located about 15 minutes east of Hershey,PA, which is famous for its chocolate. Thanks for the information. We found the project to be very successful!
Jodie Dieffenbach
East Hanover Elem. School
Annville, PA, USA

Bags decorated: 522
Comments: This is our first year with the project. I saw the idea in a teacher magazine and loved it. Our school has grades k-5. We made this a school-wide actitiy. Thanks for the great idea.
Sara Stahler
Southeastern Elememtary School
Bellefontaine, Ohio , U.S.A.

Bags decorated: 400
Comments: The 5th and 6th graders at our school have decorated bags provided by Midtown Foods here in Winona. We had a wonderful time drawing the bags with important environmental messages. They turned out wonderful! What a great and rewarding Earth Day Project!
Deedee Nadeau
St. Stanislaus
Winona, MN. USA

Please enter our school to your list of particapating schools. Thank you for sending the certificate for our school. We were very happy to receive it. Our school decorated 100 bags that were donated by Edwards Supermarket. We would also like to know if you have any other activities for grade school children.
St. Mel's School
Flushing, NY
Thank you,
Barbara Stiegelbauer

Bags decorated: 60
Comments: The three First Grade classes at Boothwyn School really enjoyed this project! It was a wonderful way to promote environmental awareness in our children and in our community.
Dawn Domzalski
Boothwyn Elem. School-First Grades
Boothwyn, Pennsylvania

Bags decorated: 250
Comments: The students of South Hanover were very excited to be involved with the decoraation of the brown grocery bags in order to get the message for Earth Day out. We hope to help others learn about the importance of taking care of our planet.
Gina Brenneman
South Hanover Elemenatary School
Hershey, PA

Happy Earth Day, 1999!

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