Earth Day Groceries
Reports from 1998 Participants
This is Part 7, including reports from schools 297 to 334, received on April 26 and 27.
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.
The numbers are in! Thirteen hundred grocery bags were decorated and
distributed in the town of Westborough. Two of our local stores,
Stop and Shop and Julio's Star Market, and three schools participated in the project.
It has been a lot of fun. The artwork was outstanding and the
project added another dimension to our Earth Day festivities in
town. Thanks for a great project!
Kathy Martin (k-martin@ma.ultranet.com)
http://www.westborough.org
Westborough, MA
On April 22,1998 St Lawrence Elementary School in Brossard, Quebec,
Canada, joyfully participated in decorating 500 bags from a local IGA
supermarket. French and English messages were written on each bag and an
explanatory note was stapled to each bag. It was our first year participating
in the project and we are very thankful to all the staff, students, and Mrs.
Anna Pamel for all their work.
Katia Giannikakis (sp-.meindersma.linda@prologue.qc.ca)
St. Lawrence School
Brossard, Quebec, Canada
We all made bags for earthday. Total, our fourth grade
and two first grades made 175 bags. We enjoyed the project.
The bags were neat. We each made our own design. Some students
even made two! We hope we can do it next year and have even
more bags! Thanks for the idea, Mrs. Pangan's class.
Pangan's fourth grade class (Pangan@earthlink.com)
Washington Elementary
Westfield Indiana
Four of our primary classrooms participated in your Earth Day Groceries project
by distributing grocery bags at 2 of the grocery stores in Springfield,
Kentucky. We had a total of 75 students that prepared Earth Day slogans.
Jackie M. Reed (jreed@washington.k12.ky.us)
Willisburg Elementary
Willisburg, Kentucky
Giant Markets in Danville donated 500 bags to be decorated by our 417 students
grades K-5. The local newspapers, The Press-Enterprise and the Danville News
reported on the event. The children and teachers had a great time decorating
the bags. The project inspired me to organize an Earth Day Classroom which all
the grade levels took turns visiting. We showed videos, had exhibits, and
activities. The children received coloring books, activity books, buttons,
bookmarks, magnets and pogs donated by many generous agencies and foundations.
Thank you for the inspiration. We hope to make it an annual event.
Pam Kreis (skreis@hotmail.com)
Liberty-Valley Elementary School
Danville, PA 17821
Gates Elementary School in Davison, Michigan has participated in the
Earth Day Project for three years. Our first through fifth graders
decorated almost 1000 grocery bags this year alone! The bags were given
to the customers at VG's Food Center. We sure have enjoyed this project
and hope that it will help people remember to "Reduce, Reuse, recycle."
Catherine Wells crobinso@genesee.freenet.org
This is our 3rd year participating in the Earth Day Grocery Bag Project.
This year we had
six schools decorate a total of 1940 bags. This was a joint project
between the Fort Belvoir
Commissary, Fairfax County Schools, Partners In Education, and the
Directorate of
Installation Support. The bags were distributed by the Commissary on
Earth Day. The kids
and Commissary patrons fully enjoyed the project.
The participating schools were:
Barden Elementary (Fort Belvoir) - 200 bags
Cheney Elementary (Fort Belvoir) - 200 bags
Markham Elementary (Fort Belvoir) - 200 bags
Quander Road School (Alexandria) - 100 bags
Woodlawn Elementary (Alexandria) - 600 bags
Woodley Hills Elementary (Alexandria) - 640 bags
Miller, Kristin millerk@dpw.belvoir.army.mil
Fort Belvoir, Virginia
This effort was coordinated by the Directorate of Environment and
Safety's Education Awareness Program. We worked with five public schools on
Fort Riley: Fort Riley Elementary, Morris Hill Elementary, Jefferson
Elementary, Fort Riley Middle School, and Custer Hill Elementary. A total of
500 bags were decorated and delivered to the Commissary for distribution during
Earth Week
Tamara DePue (tdepue@dynamac.com)
Fort Riley, Kansas
What a great Earth Day project! Our students at Market Street Elementary
School, Boardman, Ohio decorated a total of 444 grocery bags that were used
by our local Sparkle Market. We also made posters with Earth Day messages
to decorate the store and were lucky enough to have a local television
station report on our work. Thanks for sharing such a terrific idea with
us.
Lisa Hughes, Judy Lipkovich
BOAR_LJH@ACCESS-K12.org
Science Coordinators Grades K-4
Hi! My name is Ann Watson. I am a third grade teacher at Sweetwater
Elementary School in Sweetwater, Tennessee. I found your project
and with the cooperation of Newman's Food Center, here in Sweetwater,
and Mandy Nelson, our school's art teacher, our art classes decorated
675 bags to be distributed. Every child in our k-3 school did this. Our
art classes really had a good time doing this and I hope we can participate next year.
Ann B. Watson watsona2@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us
Six classes from the White Brook Middle School participated in the
Earth Day bag project and colored 155 bas for distribution at the
Big E's in Easthampton, MA.
Kathie Stewart
Educational Technology Specialist
kstewart@javanet.com
http://www.javanet.com/~kstewart
Hi,
Just to let you know our school participated in the Earth Day activity. Grades
k-4 at the Wellsburg attendance decorated bags and delivered them on Earth Day.
No feed-back yet. The number involved was 132.
Thanks again for sharing your idea.
We are located in north central Iowa. About ninety miles
north of Des Moines. We are a small farming community. Two neighboring
districts joined about seven years ago. I live in the small village of
Steamboat Rock. Our population continues to decline. So we are faced once
again with changes. That is the possibility of joining yet another
district.
Arlene fing@cnsinternet.com
Blairstown Elem. School located in beautiful Warren County New
Jersey is proud to have decorated 536 paper grocery bags. The bags were put on
display on the walls at our local A&P the week before Earth Day. The week of
Earth Day the bags were given out filled with groceries. Students in grades
Pre-first through 6th grade took part in this event. The teachers chose one
student representative from each grade level to bring all the beautifully
decorated grocery bags back to the A& P. Some pictures of the students and the
bags will follow. What a great project !!!! A special thanks to Mr. Wayne
Tracy, manager of our local A&P, for donating all the grocery bags and helping
to make this a community effort.
Felix A. Staffaroni (fstaff@ptdprolog.net)
Blairstown Elementary
Blairstown, NJ
Just to let you know that at Lakeview Elementary, in Albert Lea, Minnesota we
have just completed our third year doing Earth Day Grocery Bags. Over 500
bags were decorated and we also drew pictures for inserts for about 300
plastic bags.
The students look forward to this every year. It is a real team effort.
We even take an all school picture of the kids and their bags. Thanks
again for a great idea.
Nancy Sorlie
Lakeview Elementary
Albert Lea, MN
jnj@deskmedia.com
Jennifer Sorlie
Our health, environmental science, and other science classes from
Hudson's Bay High School in Vancouver, Washington combined to decorate
420 bags for our local Fred Meyer store.
Thanks for the great idea. You know high school kids get just as much of
a charge out this project as do elementary.
Wendi Russell wrussell@esd112.wednet.edu
We obtained 500 bags from the local Lucky's Grocery Store. The 500
kids (K-5) at our school decorated them. I then returned them to the store
where they were used to bag groceries on Earth Day. We also hold an annual
Earth Day celebration! Each class is responsible for preparing an activity for
all 500 kids. We also had the Waste Management Board, the local disposal
company, fire department and even Smokey the Bear join us. Through out the
year, we have adopted a local creek site to clean, manage and we are raising
Rainbow Trout to plant in the creek.
Mrs. Diane Hernandez (hernandz@innercite.com)
Louisiana Schnell School
Placerville, CA
South Penn Elementary School completed 586 grocery bags. I found the project
through a search engine while looking for Earth day projects. I am a junior at
Frostburg State University in the Elementary Education program. I think this
is an excellent program and it gets the children involved in Earth Day in their
communities. As part of the curriculum, we are required to complete a "service
learning project" - getting the students involved in the community at an early
age. After my graduation I plan on instituting this in my own classroom.
Melanie Daymude (iseibert@erols.com)
South Penn Elementary
Cumberland, MD 21502
The 321 students at New Germany Elementary School, Nova Scotia, Canada
have decorated 500 grocery bags, These bags have been used during the
past week at our community's grocery store and were a big hit. We even
had a photo taken and a write-up in our local paper. Our superintendent
thought it was a great idea, too.
Bill Bruhm bilteach@fox.nstn.ca
Grade 6 teacher
NGES
Your project was great fun. All of us at St. John's had a lot of fun
with it. It was great when we got compliments on our artistic abilities. All
together we decorated about 240 bags, we're a small school. Myself and the rest
of the student body would like to thank Miss. Lisa Wilson and Genuardi's
supermarket for their help and support. This is a great project and we really
enjoyed it. Thanks a lot.
Mary Kassab (mkassab@webtv.net)
St. John Chrysostom
Wallingford, PA
The children at Emily Carr Elementary School in Vancouver, B.C.
Canada became partners with Safeway, at Oak and King Edward to celebrate Earth
Day. The students decorated 305 grocery bags, which were given out on Earth
Day.
On April 23, we received several calls at the school, thanking the children for
the beautiful bags and the reminder to take care of our Earth. Students and
teachers appreciated the opportunity to participate in Earth Day in this
exciting way. One of our Grade 7 students has volunteered to organize a web
page. Thanks again and hope to participate again, next year.
Judy Charles (judyandpolly@bc.sympatico.ca)
Emily Carr Elementary (Vancouver, B.C.)
Richmond, B.C., Canada
This is the second year that the students at Chemong School,
Bridgenorth, Ontario, Canada, have taken part in this project. This year
students from Grade 2 to Grade 7 decorated 350 brown paper bags from
local stores. It is a valuable opportunity for students to learn the
difference between renewable and non-renewable resources. They all
enjoyed decorating the bags. Thankyou for organizing this worthwhile
event.
Jane Galbraith galbraith@accel.net
This is the second year of participation in this most worthwhile
activity. Our entire K - 5 school, Ridge School in Oak Forest, IL,
decorated 500 bags which were given to us by the Jewel-Osco in Oak
Forest. We returned them to Jewel-Osco a few days before Earth Day so
they could be used to carry the groceries with messages of environmental
awareness. The kids really enjoy this project and are quite interested
in making others aware of their concern for our environment.
luvtoteach@earthlink.net
The students at Father Kenneth Kearns School in Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada
enjoyed decorating and distributing 350 paper bags to our local Save-On-Foods
Grocery store for use on Earth Day. The children thought this was a great idea
and eeven included the school's email address, hoping that their bag may
eventually end up in a far off location. A special thank you to Mr. Schmidt,
the mamager of Save-On-Foods.
Arlene Littlemore (arlenelittlemore@shaw.wave.ca)
Father Kenneth Kearns Elementary School
http://edmonton.shaw.wave.ca/~alittlem
Sherwood Park, Alberta, Canada
We are a K-5 school and we decorated 575 bags
out of 650 possible. We didn't make it mandatory
for the teachers, but all but four teachers participated
in the activity. Many made it one of their Earth Day
rotation activities as they shared lessons with other
grade level teachers. The students really liked the
project!!! Two local grocery stores participated and we
divided the donated bag number between the two sites. As
I dropped the bags off at one of the grocery stores on Tuesday
night I noticed the grandmothers at the check-out were looking
for their grandchildren's bags immediately with excitement.
It was really neat!!!
Julie Leedy (leedy@ligtel.com)
Churubusco Elementary School
Churubusco, Indiana
We, at PMA, are a school of 420 students, k-8, of hudson, nh. We decorated the
bags (some techers opted to send them home for use, while others displayed them
for several days, then sent them home to use for recyclables).
Marilyn Gibson (mackhill@msn.com)
PMA (Presentation of Mary Academy)
Amherst, NH
(Picture!)
Good afternnoon!
I am writing to tell you about our school's participation in the 1998
Grocery Bag Earth Day Project. I headed up this program. We involved 6
second grade classes in decorating 250 Seesel's grocery bag. As you can
see by the pictures attached, we had a great time!
I am a student teacher at Chimneyrock Elementary in Cordova, TN.
Cordova is a suburb of Memphis, TN. Our school sits on 25 acres of
woodland. We love learning about our environment through our outdoor
classroom, nature walks, and projects like the Grocery bag project. We
really believe that kids can make a difference.
Thanks for the great ideas!!
Jennifer Stinnett mccluret@ten-nash.ten.k12.tn.us
Happy Earth Day everyone! The Team B sixth graders at Northside Blodgett
Middle School in Corning, New York had a great time celebrating Earth Day.
The 85 students began our week long celebration by decorating 104 grocery bags
to be used at P&C grocery store. The students were excited about spreading
the message that we need to care for the earth. The teachers were amazed at
the talent and hard work that went into designing and coloring the bags.
We've included photos of the kids at work and of some of their results.
We followed up this activity with a neighborhhood clean up. The weather
cooperated and we all enjoyed a school day outside in the sunshine while doing
a good deed for the community, the earth and ourselves. The mayor even came
out to meet us and thank us. This is the 4th year we have participated in
these activities and plan to continue in the years to come.
Doreen Licursi DML6422@aol.com
Northside Blodgett Middle School
Corning, New York
Happy Earth Day, 1998!
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