Earth Day Groceries
Reports from 1998 Participants
This is Part 2, including reports from schools 61 to 106.
Clicking on a linked location will take you to the participant page for that location. If you would like to write to any of the participants, click on their email address.
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.
Updated April 20,1998.
What a great project! I was very pleased when this idea was passed
onto me, and in turn,
I have passed it on to a number of other schools. Rock City Elementary is a K-7
school of
approximately 400 students. We are located in Nanaimo, a city on Vancouver
Island, off the
west coast of British Columbia. We completed 456 grocery bags, most as part of
a cross-grade
activity, the others as time permitted in the intermediate classrooms. Our
local grocery store,
Overwaitea, was delighted with the efforts of the students, and we are looking
forward
to hearing comments from the customers on Earth Day. Thanks again for a
wonderful project,
and one which makes great use of the Internet for spreading the message.
Happy Earth Day, everyone.
Phil Murphy (pmurphy@nisa.net)
Rock City Elementary
http://www.sd68.nanaimo.bc.ca
Nanaimo, B.C., Canada
Atchison Middle School 6th graders decorated 300 bags
four area grocery stores. We're proud to be a part of
this fun project! We know that sometimes, kids have
to remind adults about important issues, such as care
for the environment!
Thanks for a great project!
Diane Liebsch (AtDiane@aol.com)
Atchison Middle School
Atchison, Kansas
I teach fourth grade here at Yarbro Elem. School in Lovington, NM.
While
looking for ideas and information concerning Earth Day at our school, I
came across the grocery bag project. It caught my attention. Every year I
organize an Earth Day for our students in Yarbro. (We have 430 fourth and
fifth grade students.) I decided to try this project at our school. Our
local store donated 500 bags and our students are excited about the
project. We will deliver 400 bags back to the store in the morning. What
a great idea!
Yarbro Elem. School
700 West Jefferson
Lovington, NM 88260
Ron Hogue Fourth grade teacher
hoguetwins@leaco.net
My class and 2 other 2nd grades are decorating 200 bags.
Amy Brown (Abbaby333@aol.com)
Burbank Elementary
Merced, CA
This is our first year to participate in the Earth Day Project.
The students at Pauline South Intermediate School (grades 4-6)
decorated 281 grocery bags for Earth Day. Our school is located
in the southwest part of Topeka, Kansas (the Capital of Kansas).
The Pauline Food Center Grocery Store provided 300 grocery bags
for our students to decorate and they will sack groceries in these
decorated bags the week of April 22.
What a fun project for our students to participate in to promote
environmental awareness at school and in our community. Students
look forward to being a part of this project in years to come.
Mrs. Forbes (forbesm@aw437.k12.ks.us)
4-6 Technology Specialist
Pauline South Intermediate School
http://www.usd437.net
Wakarusa, Kansas 66546
Sheppard Elementary School on Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls,
Texas is happy to report that we made Earth Day groceries a school wide
projet. We took five hundred grocery bags from our commissary on the
base and we managed to decorate approximately 450 of them.
Thanks for the opportunity to make a statement in our community.
We will look forward to participating with you next year!
Teri Smith smithh2o@wf.quik.com (student teacher)
Sheppard Elementary Third Grade
We decorated 420 bags for Winn Dixie located in Delray Beach,
Florida.
K, 4th and 5th grades and The Nature Club participated.
We had local Media attend the actual decoration of the bags in my class. (K)
Thank you for making this worthwhile project available to us, we really enjoyed
participating
in the project and will continue to do so in the future,
With thoughts of reduce, reuse, recycly every day,
Sandy Doherty (mdoherty@emi.net)
Banyan Creek Elementary
Delray Beach, Fl.
We are decorating 400 bags this week at Dakota Meadows Middle
School. We will be having 150 8th grade students designing
them.
Thanks for your very helpful web site!
Cindy Shirk, teacher (cshirk1@mail.isd77.k12.mn.us)
Dakota Meadows Middle School
http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/schools/dakota/dakota.html
Mankato, Minnesota
St. Joseph's School in Croton Falls, New York is a small parochial
school located in Westchester County. This is our first year participating in
this project. We decorated 250 bags. The students enjoyed this project and we
hope to join in again next year.
Nancy Malcolm (stjoe345@AOL.com)
St. Joseph's
Croton Falls, New York
I'm a part of the LaPorte High School Environmental Club, and this
year for earth day we are giving a lecture about the rainforest to some
elementary school students. We hope to decorate 30 or so bags. Thanks a lot
for helping us teach the children!!!
Tiffany Collings (jshew@csinet.com)
LaPorte High School
LaPorte, In
Fourth grade students at Canterbury Elementary School will decorate
approx. 400 bags and distribute to Better Val-U Supermarket in Canterbury.
Colleen Shine from the Paper Bag Council was instrumental in helping us procure
paper grocery bags and other Earth Day related materials. Canterbury Fourth
Graders are happy to be participating in your Earth Day Groceries Short
Project.
Stephanie J. Neborsky (ABBYGIRL@prodigy.net)
Canterbury Elementary School
67 Kitt Road, Canterbury, CT 06331
Our PK-5 campus all became involved. We had a great time and decorated 875
bags for our local HEB. We then took several of the bags out to our local mall
and made an exhibit promoting community awareness.
Liz Stewart, Mary Rogers, L. Cerna (lizz@tenet.edu or megsss@swbell.net)
Franklin Elementary School http://www.port-arthur.k12.txus
Port Arthur, Texas
I am writing to say the students of Robert Kerr Elementary School,
located in Durand, Michigan are proud participants of the Earth Day
Grocery Bag Project. I contacted a local grocery store and the Manager
there donated 400 bags for us to decorate. I will be picking them up on
April 21st, and then I will know how many we actually decorated. Mr.
McGaughlin (Robert Kerr's Principal) was eager to lend his support to
this project. I am hoping for a big turnout and looking forward to
seeing these creative minds at work. Thanks for a wonderful idea. I
will let you know how it turns out.
Sincerely,
Karen Donaldson posey@shianet.org
Durand, Michigan
Our school decorated 400 bags that were donated from Meiner's Thriftway
grocery store - right down the street from our school.
Richardson Elementary School
http://www.nysunburst.com/webwork/moweb
3515 Park Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri 64109
Thanks for this GREAT idea!
Tammy Stoneberger TammyS8693@aol.com
Richardson School
Hi! W.T. Sampson Elementary School in Guantanamo Bay
Cuba had 242 pupils participate in the Earth Day grocery bag
project.
Kathleen Hovanic Kathleen_Hovanic_at_~samp-es@ccmail.odedodea.edu
I did this project in conjunction with our local Albertson's grocery store.
I travel to two schools, so both sets of students participated. All total, we
decorated 125 bags. The students enjoyed creating the slogans to use on the
bags.
Crawford Grabowski (ckgrabowski@yahoo.com)
Key Elementary and Van Winkle Elementary
Jackson, MS
We joined together with our local Shop Rite grocery
store and they donated the grocery bags.
343 bags were decorated with Earth Day messages and
returned to the Shop Rite on 4/20/98 to be
distributed on Wednesday, April 22.
Students and teachers enjoyed this project and it will
most certainly be good PR for the school in our
community.
Paula Green (paulasgreen@hotmail.com)
Somerdale Park School (k-8) http://www.cyberenet.net/~camnet/somerdale
Somerdale, New Jersey
We had fun doing this. We hope you recycle. We like to recycle.
We decorated 20 bags from our class. It was fun!
marylou (ae624@seorf.ohiou.edu)
The Plains Elementary http://www.expage.com/page/kyleswebpage1997
The Plains, Ohio
Mr. Guarnieri, an Environmental Science Teacher, and Mr.
Degenaro, an Art Teacher, participated in a team effort to
design and distribute 800 shopping bags to Patton's Sparkle
Market of Hubbard, Ohio.
Anthony Guarnieri (THEACE1998@aol.com)
Hubbard High School
Hubbard, Ohio 44425
Just wanted you to know that students in Kindergarten, 4th and 6th grades took
part in this project. We decorated 500 bags!!!
Trish Petty (tpetty@trinity.pvt.k12.dc.us)
Holy Trinity School
1325 36th St. N.W. Washington D.C. 20007
500 bags
6th graders
Terri-Anne Reese (elliott-lhar94a@prodigy.com)
Northley Middle School
Aston, PA
We have decorated 500 grocery bags.
This is a great project. It is our first year to participate.
Mr. James Duke, Fifth Grade Teacher (CCRoom408@aol.com)
César Chávez Elementary School
Coachella, California
Hi
Our names are Marly and Jillian. The school we go to is
Harry .R. Hamilton school. We are particapting in the Earth Day
Groceries.We have alot of fun decorating the bags.We have a lot of
bags,to be exact 400 bags. We passed the bags out
today and hope to have them done tomorrow.Then we will return them to
Sobey's to use on Earth Day.
From Jillian and Marly Grade 4
Jill Grandy jgrandy@hrh.ednet.ns.ca
Nova Scotia, Canada
Thought you would like to know that Fairview Community School made
Earthday Grocery bags for our local Coop. We were on CHEK TV so it was
good advertising for Earthday. My buddy class is kindergarten and our
6/7 class helped them. The kids had fun and thought about our earth.
Thanks for the idea.
Jeremy Sumner jsumner@edu.sd68.nanaimo.bc.ca
British Columbia, Canada
Our entire sixth grade and two classes of the 7th grade are
decorating bags for Pathmark in Brookhaven.,PA.
In all we hope to decorate over 400 bags!
Gay Lynn Byers (gaylynn@nni.com)
Northley Middle School
Aston, PA
Hi! This is our 2nd year with the Earthday Project!
We hope to get out at least 400 bags this year! We ran into a problem of
finding "just" brown bags this year!
I guess next year we'll have to start looking earlier!
Good Luck!
Jackie Wimberly (booklvr818@aol.com)
WA Chapman Elem
Miami, FL
We are very excited to participate in a Nationwide Earthday Activity.
We will decorate approx. 800 bags.
Carol Bethea (betheac@wes.kershaw.k12.sc.us)
Wateree Elementary http://expage.com/page/celebratescience
Lugoff, South Carolina
The "All-Stars" have decorated grocery bags for
Earth Day!!
We will present them to the manager of our local
Busch's Grocery Store on Tuesday ! Then,on Wednesday,
they will be filled with groceries by the people of Clinton!!
Clinton is located 27 miles Southwest of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Clinton is
a very small community in Lenawee County!!!
Candace Martin,Third Grade All-Stars' (balloongal@provide.net)
I saw a article about this project in the AIMS magazine.
We have decorated and distributed 445 sacks--we were
shooting for 500!! We'll try to do more next year! This is
a great project, and our students really enjoyed being a
part of a nationwide project! Great idea!
Cindy Robinson (CRobnsn903@aol.com)
LH Rather JR High
Bonham, TX
Our students will begin to decorate bags tomorrow to distribute to
our local food co-op store in Swarthmore, Pa.
I estimate that the children will be decorating approximately 150 bags for
distribution on Wednesday, 4/22/98.
The students did this last year, and are eager to begin again!
Marji Romanski (art/computer teacher) Waldeneer@aol.com
The Walden School
Swarthmore, Pa
( I believe I already reported that the children at The Walden School
had decorted over 100 bags that were distributed to the local co-op here in
Swarthmore. In addition, I received aN e-mail from our local Acme wanting bags
as well - in two hours time, the children came up with an additional 50 bags!
We really enjoyed this project, and will continue it throughout the year!!)
Just a brief note to report that our Earthday"98" program went off
without a hitch!
Our program was received very well by the administration and we had
400 Demoulas/Market Basket Bags decorated by the City of Woburns' 2nd grade classes in our 9
elementary schools. On the day of our Earthday program which was 4/18/98 we had
another 75 bags decorated by both children and adults.
These bags will be given to Market Basket on 4/20 for distribution to their
customers. Next year we are going to start earlier to get more participation
from our other grades and the other 2 supermarkets in our city. Well that is all for now,until next year, have a great year and good
health.
See Ya
Paul A Medeiros YQWK34A@prodigy.com
Woburns' 2nd grade elementary {9}schools
Woburn, MA
This was our first year attempting this project. Our third grade
class studies communities, and this made a great, easy-to-do community project!
Two second, two third, and two fourth great classes decorated 162 bags, which
were distributed at the Canyon Road Safeway. The guidelines and tips that you
posted for the project were very helpful. Thanks for a great project!
Jodi Carr (carrja@compuserv.com)
Pioneer Valley Elementary School http://152.157.41.5
Spanaway, WA
The third grade decorated 150 bags.
Niles Elementary School
Niles, Illinois
I am a college student currently interning at Fort Rucker Elementary School in
Enterprise, Alabama. My third grade class decorated 22 grocery bags. Thanks
for the great idea, it is a good way to end a lesson about Earth Day.
Christine Tivnan (Tivnan@hotmail.com)
Fort Rucker Elementary
Troy, AL
Picture!
The 160 Kindergarten through 5th Grade students of Colleton Preparatory
Academy in Walterboro, South Carolina have decorated 200 "Bi Lo Grocery
Bags" with Earth Day greetings. This is the first year that Colleton Prep
has participated in this wonderful project. The students' creativity was
truly sparked by this project. The art work inspired by the Grocery Bags
Project was not only imaginative, but also portrayed the concerns that
children have about our only home, the Earth. A special thanks to the local
Bi Lo Grocery Store manager, Jamie King, for his help and enthusiasm. Also,
a thank you to our Art Teacher, Ms. Suzanne Bowman, and our Lower School
Lead Teacher, Mrs.. Carol Armentrout, for all of their help, support, and
organization. I have attached a picture of one of our students with his
"Earth Day Grocery Bag." I hope you received it. I would also like to
thank you and those who help you for the many hours of hard work I know that
you must spend on this project. Please know that your efforts do touch the
lives of others.
Stephanie Gruber gruber@rcis.net
Colleton Prep PTO
Hyer Elementary School decorated 566 grocery bags donated by Simon David II in
Dallas, Texas. Art teacher, Sandy Miller, coordinated this project. Students
were very enthusiastic about sharing their concerns for the earth with the
community. It was a fun project which promoted awareness of everyone's
responsibility to care for the earth.
Cindy Galpern (cyndga@aol.com)
Hyer Elementary School
Dallas, Texas
I am a seventh grade science teacher who was looking for a fun and
different idea to celebrate Earth Day this Wednesday. I have contacted a local
grocery store - Fareway Foods in Johnston Iowa - and they are going to donate
250 sacks for our kids to decorate. It should be a blast!!!!!!! Thanks for
the idea.
Debra Johnson (5backhome@worldnet.att.net)
Meredith Middle School
Des Moines, Iowa
Thanks for sharing this great idea with the world!
Our school is participating for the first time. Our PTA Earth Day committee
used your templates and prepared a packet of instructions for the art teacher
to impliment. We have decorated 615 bags which will be returned to the
grocery store on Monday, April 20 for distribution on Wednesday.
Here's who and where we are:
Camp Creek Elementary School (K-5)
958 Cole Drive
Lilburn, Georgia 30047
(770) 921-1626
Gwinnett County Public Schools
Parkview Cluster
East Metro Atlanta
HOMESTAYGA@aol.com
Happy Earth Day, 1998!
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