Earth Day Groceries, 1999 Reports
This is Part 4, with reports from schools 301 -400.
Updated April 27,1999.
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.
Helen Corriveau
Belmont Elementary School
Belmont, NH
Bags decorated: 500
Comments: Belmont Elementary school students grades 1 - 5 decorated 500 groceries bags for Shaw's Supermarket in Belmont, NH.
They will be distributed on Thursday, April 22nd for Earth Day. They were done in Art classes the week before.
The students had a lot of fun! Shaws was very cooperative and enthused about working with the school to get out our Earth Day messages.
This is the first year are students at Boze Elementary School in Tacoma, WA
have participated in the grocery bag project. We have decorated 900 grocery
bags and took them to the Safeway in our area. The project has been a great
success. We did put an EarthDay sticker on the bag that said the bag was
decorated by a student at our school. We have received several phone calls
from customers who received the bags saying how the loved it. It was a fun
project , the kids loved it, and hopefully we can make this a yearly event.
Thank you for putting this on the web!!!!
Kris Andren
Boze Elementary
School
Pamela Miller
Franklin Elementary/Jackson City Schools
Jackson, Ohio 45640
Bags decorated: 24
Comments: Our class really enjoyed this project. We hope to include our entire school next year. This is an excellent activity to include in Earth Day celebrations.
Hello from the Pilot School, Wilmington, Delaware. My class of seven
participated in your Bag project. We decorated 70 bags and will help
distribute them at the local Super G market today at 1:00p.m. Hope to be
able to send some pictures. Thanks for a great project! The students are
really excited about it.
Victoria R. Maccari
Special Education Teacher
The Pilot School
Wilmington, DE
Kathleen Schmitz
Incarnate Word Elementary School
St. Louis, Missouri
Bags decorated: 420
Comments:
Students from K-8 were proud to participate in this Earth day project to promote environmental awareness. We decorated 420 grocery bags provided by our local Schnucks Market in Bellereve Plaza. We are happy to be participating this year.
Patricia Mosey
Sioux Trail Elementary
Burnsville, MN USA
Bags decorated: 625
Comments: Excellent idea. Great whole school project. Lot's of fun!
Wonderful art work.
Tonya Hester
Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School
Tuscaloosa, AL (USA)
Bags decorated: 426
Comments: Our school decorated 426 bags. We dropped them off at Bruno's on Tuesday, April 20th to be used on Earth Day. We had a great time participating in this project.
Risa Cohen
CPC Behavioral Health Care
Morganville, New Jersey,USA
Bags decorated: 200
Comments: The students were enthusiastic and creative in taking on the task of decorating their Earth Day grocery bags. The entire school participated. It promoted awareness of the importance of Earth Day and the need to keep our envioronment safe and clean for future generations.
McCormick Elementary School in Mullins, South Carolina houses grades
3 and 4. Students decorated 361 grocery bags which will be returned to
Bilo for bagging groceries on Thursday, April 22nd. Other Earth Day
activities are planned at our school. We have a forester coming to plant
a tree. Our cafeteria staff is making dump cake to serve for dessert on
Earth Day. The recipe: Grease a 9"x13" baking pan to represent the
Earth.
Tell students that Earth gets polluted when people dump litter on it.
Illustrate this by doing the following: Spread one can of cherry pie
filling on the earth to represent the ground. Sprinkle one 8-ounce can
of
crushed pineapple on the ground to represent litter. Dump one box of
yellow cake mix on the ground to represent factory ashes, soot, and
other forms of pollution. Pour one stick of melted butter on top to
represent
an oil spill. Leave layered. Do not stir! Bake at 350 for 45 minutes to
60 minutes. This was submitted to "Schooldays" magazine by Amy Regan
from
Hudson, Ohio.
Harriett Stephens
Linda Burrell
Jesse Bobo Elementary, Spartanburg County School District Six
Bags decorated: 500
Comments: Winn Dixie Store on Reidville Road in Spartanburg, SC.
donated 500 bags to Jesse Bobo Elementary School in
Spartanburg School District Six. Students in pre-k
to grade 5 participated in decorating the bags. The bags
were returned to the store for use on Earth Day. This is
the first year Jesse Bobo has participated in this project
and the students' interest and excitement should make
it an annual favorite!
Jason Saltmarsh
Bow memorial School
Bow, NH, USA
Bags decorated: 250
Laurie Colburn
Helen Hyatt Elementary
Lincoln, Nebraska
Bags decorated: 173
Comments: Our school decorated 173 bags donated by Hinky Dinky. The teachers thought this was a great
project and the students can't wait to see their bags at the store! Special thanks to store owner,
Tom Taylor, for letting us borrow the bags and to 4th grade teacher, Kirk Powell, for organizing
and distributing the bags to all the classrooms. Thanks for the idea!
Penny Lennard
Chris Akkerman Elementary School
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Bags decorated: 370
Comments: Students at Chris Akkerman Elementary School in Calgary have
decorated 370 grocery bags to be distributed at the Trans Canada
Mall Safeway store. The students were thoughtful about the
messages and pictures that they chose to convey on their bags.
This opportunity allowed them to realize pride and ownership
in their work along with a sense of responsibility to take
care of our planet.
Thank you.
Jennifer Price
Brownie Troop 530
Pacific Palisades, CA, USA
Bags decorated: 107
Comments: The girls enjoyed decorating the bags and are excited about having Ralphs distribute them to its customers. They really seemed to understand the value of reusing and recycling.
Next year, why not decorate bags that we have already used?
Bags decorated: 568
Comments: Our entire campus had a wonderful time decorating the bags
while discussing ways we could help save our earth. Thank you to
Kroger, a true partner in education!
Jennie Reid Elementary
La Porte, Tx
We are very excited about the project. Many people from our town
are asking about it. Our students from seventh grade are coordinating the
project. They have been giving interviews with the media and newspapers and
are ready to deliver 600 decorate bags tomorrow. At the same time they will
be posting different bulletin boards in public places, such as hospitals,
government offices and the supermarket where the project is going to take
place called MEGA SUPER CENTER .
Thank you for inviting us. It has been a great experience.
Diana Ramos
Principal
I am a third, fourth and fifth grade science teacher in a rural school
district. We decorated 60 bags to celebrate Earth Day. The kids really
enjoyed the project!!!!
Eric Johnston
Pewamo Elementary School
Pewamo Michigan
Patricia J. Kohnke
St. Dominic Savio Elementary
Bellflower, CA
Bags decorated: 39
Comments: This was a great project for the children. They became very involved
in the project. Ralphs gave each of them a nickel for their bag,
which they donated to charity.
We participated through Ralphs at South and Carmenita
in Cerritos, CA, who really supported the project.
Jordan Lee Brazelton
Ceres Elementary School, Grades K-5
Whittier, California, United States of America
Bags decorated: 423
Comments: The students of Ceres Elementary in Whittier, Ca. decorated 423 bags with the help of the Ralphs
Grocery store at Colima Rd./Whittier Blvd. in Whittier.
Lisa Andrews
Central School
Rochelle, IL USA
Bags decorated: 450
Beth Cramer
St. Thomas School
International Falls, MN
Bags decorated: 225
Comments: Our school will begin decorating bags from Super One,
Paulbecks and Lucca's Grocery Stores on Wednesday, April 21.
We will be working in groups of 10 that range from
Kindergarten through 8th grade. We are excited to be a part
of this Earth Day Celebration.
Sydni Neves
Summit K-12
Seattle, WA, USA
Bags decorated: 190
Comments: Hi! We sure did have fun decorating our bags. We had participation from 6 teachers and almost 200 children. The most unique thing is that we had middle school age children working with the 1st graders to create fun designs and crazy slogans. Thank you for coming up with this project idea. We enjoyed ourselves.
Gloria Miller
Southside Elementary School
Bags decorated: 25
Comments: We were excited to participate in this project because we have been involved in an internet project this year on endangered species with our focus on the manatee. We were the only class at our school this year to participate in this project but next year we hope to have the whole school participate. This idea is great because of the message and the fact that it costs nothing but a little time to implement. Thanx. Mrs. Miller and the Awesome Achievers at Southside Elementary School, Sarasota, Florida
Lisa Neasbitt
Butterfly Christian Academy
Austin, Texas
Bags decorated: 50
Comments: This project has helped my children acknowledge that they can spread the word about reuse and recycling, and that what they say is important. They have a sense of pride because they decorated the bags in the manner that they wanted, and that the way they wanted to do their decorations was okay. Thank you for this wonderful idea that helps the community become aware of the reuse of grocery bags, and that the children are involved in their community.
Charles R Campbell
What a great idea! I wanted my kids to get involved in Earth Day. We're
decorating 50 bags for our local grocery in Carterville, IL. We are Mrs.
Campbell's 5th grade science classes at Carterville Grade School in
Carterville, Illinois.
Northwest Elementary
1233 Bower Street
Howell, MI 48843
We decorated 58 grocery bags.
Carla Plunkett
Deer Creek Elementary School
Edmond, Oklahoma, USA
Bags decorated: 309
Comments: This was one of the easiest school-wide projects we have participated in recently. The students enjoyed making art work that would be seen by the community. We contacted a brand new Baker's store, and they were very willing to help us out with this project. What a great idea!!
Fran R. Forrest
Warwick Early Childhood Center; Newport News, Virginia Public School System
Newport News, Virginia
Bags decorated: 350
Comments: This has been a wonderful school-wide project for all the students in our school. Even at the young age of 4yrs. and 5yrs.,our children have enthusiastically decorated bags to be distributed to various local grocery stores. These children are keenly aware of the importance of recycling.
I also want to add that the participating grocery stores who so graciously donated bags were: Food Lion at Oyster Pt. Square, Food Lion at Franciscan Village S/C, Harris Teeter, Super K-Mart in Tabb, VA, and Hannaford Grocery Store in Tabb, VA. They were so very helpful in donating bags.
Thank-you very much for organizing this wonderful Earth Day project!
Sincerely,
Fran R. Forrest
Warwick Early Childhood Center
Newport News Public Schools
Newport News, Virginia
Mrs. L. Wenger
Kern Avenue Elementary School
Mc Farland, Ca
Bags decorated: 500
Comments:
Oops on 1st attempt at sending this! I pressed enter too soon! (I'm a computer rookie!) Thanks for sharing and especially for beginning such a valuable projectl. Its so easy to do and share with other teachers!
Gail Atkinson
Steenrod Elementary PTA
100 Clarks Ln., Wheeling, WV 26003 USA
Bags decorated: 400
Comments: 400 grocery bags were decorated for Earth Day. They were
donated by and will be distributed through the local
Kroger, 200 DeChantal Rd., Wheeling, WV 26003
D. Hansen
North Bay Elementary
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi USA
Bags decorated: 381
Comments: North Bay Elementary is a K-3 school located in Bay St. Louis, MS. This is our first year to participate in Earth Day Groceries. We are very excited about this project and plan to continue participating for years to come. We enjoyed participating in a project that also involves the community, as this one does. Thank you.
Kathie Scotti
Dickerson Elementary School
Chester, NJ
Bags decorated: 110
Comments: Five kindergarten classes at Dickerson Elementary School participated in the Earth Day Groceries Project. This was our first year doing the project and we returned 110 decorated bags to the Chester Shop-Rite. The children and their families enjoyed working on this special project together. Dickerson is a primary school with grade levels K to 2. I hope to have 100% participation from our school next year!
Just a note to let you know that my two science classes will be
decorating grocery bags for my family's market. We are only
doing 50 bags, since there are several participating schools in
Glastonbury already. My school is located 60 miles from the
store, but my father-in-law and my husband are always willing
to help out the local schools by supporting such good causes
and help awareness. Gardiner's Market also encourages use of
reusable cloth bags. My name is Mona Gardiner and I teach at
Killingly Intermediate School in Dayville, CT. I teach 6th
grade. Thank you!!!
Our school, Tilden Elementary School, Hamburg School District, Hamburg, PA,
has participated in the Earth Day Grocery Bag Project. We are grades K-2 and
have an enrollment of 310 students. Food Lion in Hamburg provided the bags
for us to decorate and they were delivered to the store for distribution on
Earth Day.
The students are very excited to be participating in a national project. We
found the activity to be a simple, yet effective way to get the Earth Day
message across. We thank you for the terrific idea and can't wait for the
feedback from the community!
Sincerely,
Mary Sweeney
Kindergarten Teacher
Durlynn Beauchamp
East Point
El Paso, Texas
Bags decorated: 681
Comments: We are K-6 school. All grade levels participated in the grocery bag project. Albertson's provided the bags. The kids had a wonderful time decorating their bags.
Mary Albright
St. Patrick Grade School
Great Bend, Kansas
Bags decorated: 167
GERTRUDE CAMPBELL
LAKEVIEW MIDDLE SCHOOL
GREENVILLE SC
Bags decorated: 100
Jennifer Turner
Tioga Elem. Bensenville Dist#2
Bensenville, IL 60148 USA
Bags decorated: 400
Mrs. V. Buckley
Grant Elementary School
Colton, CA USA
Bags decorated: 250
Comments: After reading the article in Science and Children (NSTA
pub.) I asked teachers if they had heard of the Project,
if they were doing anything for Earth Day and if they were
interested in participating. Two other third grade classes
and all four of the second grades participated. The Stater
Bros. store manager, George, was aware of the program already
and very generous with the bags. I hope that next year we can
start earlier and have more of the classrooms at our school
site participate.(Maybe next year, pictures. This computer
graphics, imports, etc. is still new to me!)
Melanie Franklin, School Publicity Coordinator
Grandview Elementary Schoolt
Dothan, Alabama
Bags decorated: 483
Comments: Grandview students from K-2 in partnership with Winn Dixie by our medical facility participated in the 1999 Earth Day Groceries project. The bags with our student's artwork in crayon, markers, and paint along with an important environmental message will touch people's lives as they purchase groceries from the Winn Dixie store. Grandview students are eager to learn "How To Save Our Earth". We thank you for this opportunity to participate in this wonderful and worthwhile project.
Christie Hodgkins
Battery Park City Parks Conservancy
NYC, NY
Bags decorated: 26
Comments:
As part of our afterschool program called Park Explorers, children in grades K-2 and their adult partners decorated bags donated by Gristedes, a neighborhood market.
Gab Langmann
St. Margaret of Scotland
Greentree, PA USA
Bags decorated: 32
Comments: We saw your page in Weekly Reader and we did it! We were going to to it before we saw the page.
Mrs. Donna Spears
Lincoln Elementary School
4th grade teacher
Monmouth, Illinois
Bags decorated: 600
Comments:
We feel good about telling people about Earth Day. We want everyone to help save the Earth.
We want the Earth to be a better place 150 years from now than it is now.
Sallie Patton
Bay Point Elementary
St. Petersburg, FL
Bags decorated: 400
Comments:
Our 7 kindergarten classes and 6 first grade classes loved this project and had wonderful messages to put on their bags. We have an Albertson's around the corner so I got the bags from the manager there. I was glas to see Albertson's on your website as a partner in this project and have one close by our school. Great idea!!!
Bags decorated: 496
Comments: Children and teachers were excited about the bags!
They turned out beautifully and it came at a good time because the whole school was involved in statewide testing so this activity was a good week -long project!!
Adrienne Wingate
H.O.Brittingham Elementary
Milton, DE
Bags decorated: 450
Comments:
The kids loved decorating the bags and are looking forward to seeing them at the local supermarket!
Ada Marcus
P.S. 46
Bayside, New York
Hello, our grocery bag decorating was successful. Tge students at Central
Elementary School in Trail, B.C. completed 155 bags and returned them to
Ferraro Foods.
Thank-you for your time,
from the Central School Students
Aaron Mckenzie
Bags decorated: 431
Comments: What a great project! The Big M in our town was very excited about the
program and donated grocery bags to our school. Then the 5th grade
"Cove" class organized the project and distributed the grocery bags to
each class in our elementary school. The children from K though 6 were
extremely creative and we are proud of the message we sent through the
community. It was great fun and we plan to participate every year now!
5th Grade Cove Class
Alexandria Central
Alexandria Bay, NY USA
Bags decorated: 23
Comments: Ms.Davis's 4th grade class decorated 23 bags to remind people to take care of the earth.
A boy from our class got bags from Publix. After we are done decorating the bags we will
the boy from are class will take them back. The store will put peoples' grocieries
and then that will remind people about saving the earth while they have the chance.
Austell Elementary
Austell,GA
There were 525 students from North Springs Elementary School who
participated in the Earth Day Groceries Project. Our sponsoring partner
was Publix Grocery store. Our school is located in Columbia, South
Carolina.
Roberta Friedland
Bags decorated: 500
Comments: Our entire first and second grade as well as many third and fifth grades participated in this wonderful project.
The children really adopted a great attitude and worked very hard. We have made a committment to
the environment.
Vicki Conrad
Zuni Elementary
Scottsdale, Arizona USA
Bags decorated: 400
Comments: Our school just got their bags today. Many of our teachers have taken them to their classroom and the students are busy decorating.
This is a great project. We're very pleased to be able to take part.
Ed Neely
Ole Hanson Elementary Sch
San Clemente, CA, USA
240 first and third grade students from Weibel School, in Fremont, California; have finished decorating our Earth Day Grocery Bags. The neighborhood Lucky grocery store will be distributing them on April 22. This is one of our favorite projects and we appreciate being able to read about it on the internet. Please add 240 more grocery bags to your grand total!
Susie Calhoun
Happy Earth Day!
As Fine Arts Curriculum Facilitator (and former science teacher for over
twenty years), I coordinated the three schools efforts of decorating bags for
Earth Day. I got a grocery store and a hardware store in Hull to donate a
total of 1000 bags which have been decorated by students from grades 1 - 12
for the event!
We look forward to doing this again next year!
Joseph C. Doniger,
Fine Arts Curriculum Facilitator
Hull School Department
Hull, MA
April 20, 1999
Dear People,
Here's a quick report that we here at Cedar River Elementary in
Maple Valley, WA have completed the decoration of 483 grocery sacks. They
will be returned to our neighborhood QFC in Wilderness Village. Thank you
for sponsoring this event. We loved doing it!!!
Yours for the Earth!
Mrs. Ruth Sullivan's Class at
Cedar River Elementary School
Rudi Sullivan
Bags decorated: 43
Justin T. Fannin
Sandy Hook Elementary
Sandy Hook KY U.S.A.
Bags decorated: 954
Comments: This project was done in two of our member schools. The enthusiasm of the children was overwhelming. We hope to be expanding the project next year. Thank you to our local markets for helping.
Faye E. Manyak
The Learning Network
Blackstone Valley Collaborative, Massachesetts,USA
Bags decorated: 50
Comments:
This is the first year I have heard of this project. We had such a wonderful time with this assignment.I completed this activity on a small scale with my class, and would like to expand this activity next year!
Kimberly Newman
Edwin H. Vare Middle School
Philadelphia, PA , USA
Bags decorated: 50
Comments: Mrs. Karen Douglas teaches ESL Transition Classes at Country Place
Elementary and Montgomery Elementary in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD in the Dallas Metroplex. The classes decorated grocery bags in joint venture with Tiffany Timmons, a junior at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas. Tiffany is a member of the TWU Environmental Club. The goal of the project was to encourage use of recycled paper bags instead of plastic bags. The students at Country Place are in grades 1st to 5th. Their home languages are Korean, Mayalayam, Cambodian, Japanese, and Spanish. The children at Montgomery Elementary are in grades 2nd to 4th. Their home languages include Vietnamese, Chinese, Arabic, and Spanish. Tiffany delivered the bags to Kroger in Denton, Texas. Kroger donated the bags.
Karen Douglas
Country Place and Montgomery Elementary
Farmers Branch and Carrollton. Texas
Bags decorated: 223
Comments: OUR STUDENTS ARE VERY EXCITED TO BE PARTICVIPATING IN THIS EVENT. PLEASE NOTIFY US NEXT YEAR SO WE CAN AGAIN PARTICIPATE THANK YOU
MICHAELLE SIMS
STEVENSON LOWER/MIDDLE SCHOOL
CARMEL, CA. 93921
Bags decorated: 203
Comments: We heard about your project through one of our student teachers. Then we found your Web Site to get the details.
Last Thursday, 22 April 1999, students from all classes decorated paper bags provided by Mike Dean's Super Food Store in Chesterville, Ontario.
A total of 203 bags were decorated! Sorry ...no pictures.
Lynn Walsh
Chesterville Public School
Chesterville, Ontario, Canada
Bags decorated: 352
Comments: Our school enjoyed the project! Next year our
whole district would like to participate. Also, I will be
emailing pictures to post!
Julie McGann
Hannum School, Oak Lawn IL
Bags decorated: 500
Comments:
We are happy to do our part to save our Earth!
Brigid Nussbickel
Arlington Elementary School
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 12603
Bags decorated: 26
A. Campas
Grafton Bethel
Yorktown, VA 23692
Bags decorated: 438
Comments: This project was a hit! The entire school was involved and we decorated a total of 438 bags. The bags will be distributed at Dominick's a local grocery store on Earth Day. The children were very creative and informative with the bags they designed. Thank you for the great idea!
Bridgeview School
Melissa Kutsulis and Mary Giannoulis
Bridgeview, Illinois, USA
Bags decorated: 250
Comments: Our daily paper is sending a reporter to our school today
to talk with students about this project! If there is a picture
in the paper this week, we'll post it for all to see!
Diane Liebsch
Atchison Middle School
Atchison, KS 6600s
Bags decorated: 250
Comments: We are working for the second year with our local Giant Eagle Grocery Store.
We are a small lab school (K-6) with about 90 students total.
We love this project!
Dr. Catherine Stephenson
University School- Indiana Univ. of PA
Indiana, PA 15705 USA
Bags decorated: 250
Comments: This project was started after we read our Weekly
Reader. My class headed the project and asked the other 4th grade plus the two 3rd grades and two 2nd grade
classes to help. The third and fourth grade classes each
decorated two bags a piece. We also put an insert in each
grocery sack that encouraged people to recycle and re-
use. We put posters up in several of the stores in town.
Sue Roberts
Cuba Elementary School
Cuba, Il 61427
We participated in the Earth Day Grocery Bag Program this year. Our school is
Woodridge Elementary School in the Bellevue School District, Bellevue,
Washington in King County. We decorated a total of 252 bags donated by QFC in
the Factoria Square Shopping Center (Bellevue, WA).
I participated last year in the same program with Roosevelt Elementary in the
Tacoma School District. This is an excellent way to get the school's name out
in to the community.
Susan Beard, Kindergarten Teacher
Woodridge Elementary
Bags decorated: 100
Comments:
We enjoyed doing these bags for Earth Day!
Fourth Grade Class - Reserve elementary
Dianna Myers
Reserve Elementary School
Reserve, NM 87830
Bags decorated: 25
Comments: On April 19, 1999 we decorated 25 bags from Fry's Food and Drug. I will be bringing the bags back to Fry's so they can give them out to their customers. We came up with lots of different slogans like "Be Kind to Our Earth" and "Plant More Trees." We had a lot of fun and the bags looked so good we wanted to keep them and display them at our school! Thanks Weekly Reader for helping us to be more aware of how we can help our earth!
Christine McNeal
Cactus View Elementary
Paradise Valley Schools
Phoenix, AZ
Bags decorated: 46
Two third grade classes decorated Tops supermarket grocery bags with many Save the Earth slogans and designs. Our thanks go out to the Tops supermarket on Transit Rd. in Depew, NY.
Kathleen Kozma
Cayuga Heights Elem in Depew, NY
Depew,NY Erie county
Bags decorated: 127
Comments:
Great interdisciplinary project for the 6th grade. And a wonderful public relations activity between community and school. Kings grocery store was so supportive with the direction of manager Nona Mullin.
Linda McMahon
Bernardsville Middle School
Bernardsville, NJ 07924 USA
Hello from Brazil and Our Lady of Mercy,
We are a 5th grade class at an American School in Rio de Janeiro. We
saw your project and decided to hop on board the earth day festivities.
Our bags are ready to be returned to a local bakery near our school
(since they only use paper for their freshly baked bread). In total we
managed to do 70 bags and they will be destributed on Thursday. Can we
send you some pictures and be registered as a participating school?
E-mail me at olmrio@alternex.com.br or jbellis@ibm.net care of Carla
Reis Abreu
Bags decorated: 355
Paulette Clements
Prophetstown Elementary School
Prophetstown IL
Bags decorated: 500
Comments: We were doing an Earth Day Cyber Hunt Activity that I found in Instructor Magazine and onoe of the Web Addresses that we were sent to was the Earth Day Bags address! Lucky for us!! We invited our principal in to the Computer Lab and here we are! Our whole school ( pre-K thru 5) is participating!!
We got our bags from Super Stop & Shop in Middletown, CT . We're decorating them today (4/20/99) and will bring them back tomorrow after school so that they can be used for customers' groceries on Earth Day!! We're excited!! The newspapers are coming to cover this too!!!!Thanks for the super idea!!!
Christine Salamone
Wilbert Snow Elementary
Middletown, CT 06457
Bags decorated: 20
Comments:
My students had a wonderful time decorating their bags in preparation for earth day.
They were just appalled at all of the things that people are doing to harm the envirnoment
and didn't understand how it could keep on happening. This activity tied in with our science unit, Interaction of Living things.
This was a great activity!
Robin Mossengren
Zuni Elementary-
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
Bags decorated: 150
Comments: We are having a great time decorating the bags, as well as learning more about the environment. We have just finished our preschool science fair. Our first grade did a project on acid rain. The children really were able to see the effects of how acid rain can hurt the enviornment. The colored bags reflected their interest. Great Idea!
Kristine King
Montessori School House
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Bags decorated: 150
Comments: The third grade at Tarrant Elementary School consists of about 100 students. As a grade level,
we decorated about 150 bags. The students really enjoyed the activity. They are hopeful that
their parents may get one of their bags at the grocery store.
Gina Redd
Tarrant Elementary School
Tarrant, Alabama
Bags decorated: 100
Comments:
Bloomer Elementary Students decorated 100 bags with earth day
advice for local residents. Shadick's grocery store volunteer
ed to use them on Earth Day.
Ann Zimmerman
Bloomer Elementary
Bloomer, Wisconsin
Bags decorated: 400
Comments: We decorated 400 bags donated by our local IGA Tidyman's.
Children in grades K-5 enjoyed giving something back to
their community as well as learning about the importance of
environmental conservation.
Penny Bettas
Jefferson Elementary
Pullman, WA
Bags decorated: 500
Comments: The children at St. Andrew School had a great time creating slogans for the earthday grocery bags. Our school has an interdisciplinary project that goes all year long. We have 350 students in our school. We divide up the students in grades K-8 into equal groups with about 2 students from each grade in each group.
We do large school projects together. So far this year we have had an International Day, now an Earthday GroceryBagDay, and at the end of the year, an Olympic Day.
We want to thank Jewel and Dominicks stores for helping to make this project possible and for helping our kids feel that they made a difference in their community.
Patricia Mazzeffi
St. Andrew School
Chicago, IL60613
Bags decorated: 60
Comments: First Graders were very creative and
enthusiasic about decorating their
grocery bags. This activity was
coordinated by classroom teachers,
the art teacher, the Media Specialist
and our school volunteers.
C. Viner
Washington Elementary School
Muscatine, Iowa
Bags decorated: 175
Comments: Students at Westmoreland Elementary School colored a total of 175 sacks. The sacks were donated
Dillons Superstore on Sarber Lane in Manhattan, KS. The store will use the sacks on Earth Day,
April 22nd to help remind their customers the importance of recycling.
Mrs. Carol Thierolf
Westmoreland Elementary School
Westmoreland, KS 66549
bags decorated: 21
Comments: We had a great time decorating our grocery bags. First, we brainstormed all the words and phrases that we could think of as we thought about Earth Day. The children generated great discussions about these ideas. The children worked quietly and I could hear them talking about Earth Day ideas as I walked around the room. They are going to ask their families to go food shopping at the store that the grocery bags will be handed out. This was a great and worthwhile project. I will definiately look forward to doing this project every year for years to come. Thank You!!!
Jennifer Henry
Kingston Elementary School
Cherry Hill, New Jersey
Bags decorated: 20
Brady Cohen
#6 school
529 Bunker Court North Woodmere N.Y.
Bags decorated: 400
Jennifer Kline
Perdue Academy
Pontaic, MI
Bags decorated: 126
Comments: This is the third year our first graders have participated in the grocery bag project with our local grocery store. This year we decorated 126 bags. Our boys and girls have fun talking about ways to take care of our planet Earth. We come up with various slogans to put on the bags. We know that people in our community like to get our decorated bags from the store on April 22. We hope to increase awareness for everyone about the importance of Earth Day everyday. This is a project we will continue to support. Thank you for the great idea.
Barbara Wenzel
Manteno Elementary
Manteno, IL USA
Everyone in
class designed a bag and it will be displayed at our locol Hy-vee grocery
store. There will be 150 bags from our middle school.
Sincerely,
Nathan I., 6th gr.rep.
Johnston Middle School
Johnston, Iowa
Bags decorated: 500
Comments: We are a Roman Catholic School in Dutchess County New York with about 200 children. This is our first year doing this project but the children seemed to really enjoy it. We got the bags from a local Grand Union in our area who were more than happy to help us out. I am sure we will be doing this again next year and we are going to try and double the bags we
do.
Jill DuPilka
St. Peters School
Hyde Park< NY 12538
Bags decorated: 220
Our school has teamed up with FINAST grocery for this K-5 project. We picked up the bags last week.
Each class got together to determine how many bags each person wanted to decorate and thus how
many bags each class needed. The kindergarteners are responsible for the final count on Tuesday the 20th.
(We think we will have around 220 bags). Our principal and twelve children will deliver the decorated
bags to FINAST on Wednesday so that they can distribute them to patrons on Earth Day! One of the
messages that the second graders wrote on the bags was "Use durable cloth bags over, and over, and
over, and over again!" This was a great project! Thank you for your support!
Nancy Evans
Lake Ridge Academy
North Ridgeville, Ohio
Bags decorated: 50
Comments: Between my 6 6th Grade Girl Scout Troop and
my 16 2nd grade students, we decorated 50
grocery bags in all!! We think that this is a
great way to raise awareness about Earth Day
and ways to protect our Earth!
Theresa Bahnsen
Valentine Elementary School
Valentine, NE USA
Bags decorated: 50
Comments: Our class was glad to be a part of the EARTH DAY GROCERIES project. We hope that this day
will bring an awareness to those that receive our beautifully decorated bags. We thank Mr. Mark
Ahlness for starting this worthwhile project.
Sincerely,
Mr. Tim Roach and 4th graders from Mattawan, Michigan Later Elementary School
Mattawan Later Elementary School
Mattawan, Michigan 49071
Bags decorated: 16
The kids had a lot of fun doing this activity, and they also learned a great deal about the environment! Thanks!
Tina Buzelli
Lincoln Elementary School
Whitewater, Wisconsin
Bags decorated: 85
Shelia Fowler
Tamassee Elementary
Tamassee, South Carolina
Our entire 5th grade is decorating bags for Earth Day and will be taking them
to our local Smith's grocery store this week for distribution. The kids had
a lot of fun and it gives more meaning to the environmental unit we are
learning this month. Thanks for the idea! Look forward to doing it again
next year.
Karin Delacroix
Otondo Elementary School
Yuma, Az.
Bags decorated: 800
Jerlean T. Price
McNeal Elementary School
Canton,Miss.
Bags decorated: 509
Comments: Our student council members were very impressed with the creativity of their schoolmates when it came to decorating the grocery bags and were excited to deliver them back to the store. They hope the community enjoys receiving their groceries in the decorated Earth Day bags and can see that we all need to work together to save our earth! Many thanks to the local grocery store which supplied the school with these bags!!
Angie Bice
Claysburg-Kimmel Elementary School
Claysburg, PA, USA
Bags decorated: 150
Comments: Our school is fourth and fifth grades. We decorated the bags from Harp's Grocery Store in Chelsea, Oklahoma. We enjoyed doing this project and we hope our message reaches many people in Chelsea. The children had some great ideas for decorating the sacks. We CHOOSE TO REUSE in Chelsea, Oklahoma.
Cheryl Ward
Longfellow Intermediate School
Chelsea, Oklahoma USA
Happy Earth Day, 1999!
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