Earth Day Groceries Reports, 2006

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Nicole Lambert
nicole.lambert@marion.k12.fl.us
Reddick-Collier Elementary School
Reddick , FL USA
 
We decorated 25 bags!
About our project: At the end of our "Recycling Unit", my class and families decorated grocery bags with beautiful illustrations and messages about recycling. We put some of them on display at our local supermarket and gave out others to shoppers to help spread the message of saving our earth.

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Cari Andrews
candrews@holtonks.net
Central Elementary
Holton, KS USA
www.holton.k12.ks.us/central/
We decorated 250 bags!
About our project: Students grades 3-5 decorated grocery bags with earth day messages. Shoppers had fun getting their groceries in colorful grocery bags!

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Kyhiera Miller
kyhiera@yahoo.com
Del Rey Woods Elementary School
Seaside, CA USA
www.mpusd.k12.ca.us/delreywoods/INDEX.HTML
We decorated 330 bags!
About our project: In preparation for Earth Day this year, we read books and watched videos regarding pollution and conservation. Too, our students were treated to 2 great assemblies on Rainforest Animals and Recyling that helped prepare them for this day. After reading the Earth Day Groceries website, I rallied 14 additional teachers whose K-6th classes participated in the project--collectively we decorated 330 paper bags, loaned from our local Safeway, promoting awareness in the community. The kids learned a lot, and we even did an art project using recycled cans to extend the lesson into daily life!

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Barbara Shown
barbara.shown@fwcs.k12.in.us
Washington Center Elementary
Fort Wayne, IN USA
 
We decorated 300 bags!
About our project: Students in Mr. Turner's 5th grade class created environmental awareness posters during their computer lab times. A local grocery store was contacted and the students decorated grocery bags with their messages. Other classrooms joined in. On Earth Day 2006, 300 grocery bags were passed out to shoppers at Scott's Food Stores, Coventry Ln., Fort Wayne, IN. The wonderfully illustrated messages and artwork gave a positive reminder to our community. Washington Center Elementary cares about the environment and wants us all to do our part. The students were interested in learning more about environmental solutions and are using the internet for research. Happy Earth Day from Fort Wayne, Indiana!

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Janice Mount
marlj1@comcast.net
Hainesport schools
Hainesport, NJ USA
 
We decorated 750 bags!
About our project: My 8th grade students distributed grocery bags to all of the students in the school. The bags were decorated with Earth Day messages by all of the students. The 8th graders collected the bags and the bags were brought to Shoprite for distribution to customers on Earth Day.
Report submitted on 4/19/2007

Diana Ramos
dirgral@discovery.edu.mx
Discovery School
Cuernavaca, , Mexico
www.discovery.edu.mx
We decorated 2655 bags!
About our project: To start we ask Industrias Morisan to donate us paper bags. In our town there is no one that produces this kind of paper bags so we have to go to Mexico City and asked for them. Fortunatelly Industrias Morisan gave us 3000 bags who we tried to decorate. So it was a har job being 283 students and 65 teachers and staff. So we had to asked for help. We send bags to students home and parents and grand parents helped decorating them. Also we spend to mornings with mothers in school decorating bags. The previous Saturday we put a stand outside the store and invite people who were coming to buy to paint a bag and use it later. This was a great success. Children stayed outside the store with us instead of going shopping. So we decorate 2655 with many people involved and the message was spread by word, by fliers, through an interview in the radio with our students and also in TV. Again this year we went with students from 1st to 9th grade to packed groceries while they explain the proyect to the buyers and the importance of taking care of our planet EARTH!

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B BLAKELY
bblakely7@yahoo.com
Barstow Intermediate
Barstow, CA USA
 
We decorated 1000 bags!
About our project: 5TH GRADE COLORED BAGS IN THE CLASSROOM AND 6TH GRADE SCIENCE CLASSES MET TOGETHER IN THE MPR AND THE DAY WENT WONDERFULLY.
Report submitted on 4/13/2007

Mel Jones
mjteachme@aol.com
John Burroughs Elementary
Washington, DC USA
 
We decorated 100 bags!
About our project: This activity is an annual delight at our school. The students learn a valuable lessons about recycling and caring for our planet. Best of all they get to share these lessons learned with our community. Often at the end of the year, when students are asked what activities they enjoyed the most -- they say making the Earthday Bags! Thanks for this wonderful program. We love it!!
Report submitted on 4/12/2007

Mel Jones
mjteachme@aol.com
John Burroughs Elementary
Washington, DC USA
 
We decorated 100 bags!
About our project: This activity is an annual delight at our school. The students learn a valuable lessons about recycling and caring for our planet. Best of all, they get to share what learned with our community in a fun, artistic way. Often at the end of the year, when students are asked what activities they enjoyed the most -- they say making the Earthday Bags! Thanks for this wonderful program. We love it!!
Report submitted on 4/12/2007

Stephanie Donovan
stephanie.donovan@wayne.k12.in.us
Garden City Elementary
Indianapolis, IN USA
 
We decorated 525 bags!
About our project: Garden City Elementary students drew their messages on 525 Chapel Hill O’Malia’s paper grocery sacks. Students “borrowed” paper bags and decorated them with pictures and messages about Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling. The sacks were then returned to O’Malia’s where they were used to bag their customers’ groceries on Earth Day, April 22nd. Messages in both English and Spanish gave ideas on how to care for the environment as, “Have a heart, Do your part-Pick up litter,” “Keep our water clean by picking up litter,” “Recycle plastic, cans, and paper,” and “If you cut down a tree, plant a new one.” Gator students had a ball spreading environmental awareness for their future and giving back to their community.

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Susan Miessler
smiessler@rtnj.org
Shongum School
Randolph, NJ USA
www.rtnj.org
We decorated 800 bags!
About our project: The students love sharing Earth Day Ideas!
Report submitted on 4/9/2007

Lucinda Kuhn
lkuhn@kc.rr.com
Holy Trinity Catholic School
Lenexa, KS USA
 
We decorated 104 bags!
About our project: our club participated by meeting after school and decorating the bags. The Kindergaerten classes also decorated bags and donated them with us. The kids worked really hard to make the bags deliver an Earth Day conservation message.

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Sallie Gentry
sallie_gentry@fws.gov
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge/USFWS
Folkston, GA USA
www.fws.gov/okefenokee
We decorated 600 bags!
About our project: I discovered this project last year while searching for ideas for our annual Earth Day Art Contest. Participation had dropped off and I was looking for a fresh idea. We were overwhelmed by the response! Approximately 600 bags were decorated and handed out by two of our local grocery stores. Special displays were created with selected bags. One bag was selected to have the art transferred to t-shirts given out to participants at our annual Earth Day Bicycle Tour on the refuge. The selected bag was then framed and presented to the student at one of the participating grocery stores by myself, the store manager and Charlie Charlton, mascot for Keep Charlton County Beautiful. The event was covered by our local media.

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Susy Prouty
Haygib1@yahoo.com
paul cuffee school
Providence, RI USA
paulcuffee.org
We decorated 300 bags!
About our project: We at Paul Cuffee are very concerned about our Earth! We wanted to share our ideas on "making the world a little more beautiful." So we read explored and then we shared our thoughts through the grocerybag project. We hope our pictures and words will inspire caring recyclers! THanks to all!!!

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Dale Wolk
teachingu4life@yahoo.com
Seckman Middle School
Imperial, MO USA
 
We decorated 550 bags!
About our project: I had my classes write to the public and place signs around the school to help make people aware of Earth Day. Some students came back to school the following week and said they saw our bags being used and made their parents use paper bags also.

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Suzanne Ashmore
SAshmore@escambia.k12.fl.us
Bailey Middle
Pensacola, FL USA
 
We decorated 110 bags!
About our project: I asked one of my military parents to get some bags from the commisary since they were the only ones in our area that used them. The kids loved doing the project. The cashiers and baggers in the store were very excited to help us with getting the word out about Earth Day.
Report submitted on 3/27/2007

Deborah Valentine
DLVALT9@aol.com
Old Hammondtown and Center Schools
Mattapoisett, MA USA
 
We decorated 500 bags!
About our project: Once again, in celebration of Earth Day, K-6 students integrated their science/health/environmental/art classes decorating Earth Day bags, and displaying them during the week of April 22 at Shaw's Super Market in Fairhaven, MA.
Report submitted on 3/23/2007

Cheryl Roettger
vintagewd@comcast.net
Youth's Benefit Elementary School
Fallston, MD USA
 
We decorated 500 bags!
About our project: Bags were brought from the grocery store and decorated by the students during Art class. The bags were then returned to the grocery store to educate the public about Earth Day.
Report submitted on 3/20/2007

Brenda Jones
artiste312@aol.com
Page Street Elementary
Troy, NC USA
 
We decorated 375 bags!
About our project: Students are pleased and proud to be a part of the effort to make everyone more aware of Earth Day. We always work with Talley's Green Grocery in Charlotte. Fourth and fifth graders love to try to "top" their previous efforts. * My daughter is a second year law student at GW School of Law in Washington, D.C. Her specialty is environmental law! Take care of EARTH!!

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Elizabeth Mazzacco
emazzacco@spnet.k12.nj.us
Grant School
South Plainfield, NJ USA
 
We decorated 350 bags!
About our project: This is a wonderful project! Our students decorated over 300 bags! The students really enjoyed decorating the bags and the teachers found the project to be a wonderful way to create community involvement. Our local Stop and Shop donated all of the bags and were wonderful to work with! We can't wait to do this project again next year!
Report submitted on 2/23/2007