Wisconsin Earth Day Groceries Reports - 1999
Patty Snyder
Purdy Elementary School
Fort Atkinson, WI, USA
Bags decorated: 575
Comments: The students and staff at Purdy Elementary School wholeheartedly enjoyed participating in the Grocery Bag Project in honor of Earth Day. We look forward to continued participation in the future.
Bridget Rhode
St. Mary's Catholic School
Portage, WI, United States
Bags decorated: Over 400
Comments: St. Mary's is a school of 178 students, K-8. We made Earth Bags our
all school Earth Day Project.
Mary Hemminger
St. Thomas More
Green Bay, WI 54301
Bags decorated: 500
Comments:
Students We had a great time decorating and walking to a neighborhood Sentry food store with our bags. Two television stations gave us coverage on the evening news, and we had an article in the Green Bay Press Gazette. Check our school's website, Events page, for pictures! St. Thomas More Student Council.
Washington Elementary School in
Whitewater, Wisconsin.
The pictures are from the day that our students
worked as partners, lower elementary students with upper elementary
students and our head start, to make the grocery bags for our local
SuperValue store. The store used them to bag groceries on Earth Day. Our
students had a great time. Thank You.
Mary Jane Steinhoff
Ofelia Bautista- Ruiz
Hayes Bilingual school
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Bags decorated: 450
Comments: Kolhs Food Store lent our school the bags.
The children loved the project.
Sorry I just got around to submitting our participation.
Bags were delivered on Earth Day.
Beverly Weigel
St. John the Baptist School
Plymouth, WI, USA
Bags decorated: 500
Comments: A great project. The students were proud of their work.
Jerry Cigliana
Cass Street School-Milwaukee Public Schools
Milwaukee Wisconsin USA
Bags decorated: 75
Comments: Earth Day in Milwaukee had a great example of one of the resources that the earth gives us. It rained and rained and rained!! That didn't stop us. We put on our ponchos and walked to our local Pick-N-Save. We handed out all our bags and the shoppers were very impressed. This will be an annaul project for us here at Cass. Please visit our web site at http://ftp.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/schools/cass.
Patricia De Moe
Mound View Elementary, Grade 4
Elk Mound, WI, USA
Bags decorated: 21
Comments: We care. We pledge to take care of the earth!
Reduce! Reuse! Recycle!
Sandra Ward
Lombardi School
Green Bay, WI USA
Bags decorated: 1200
Comments: Our students enjoyed decorating grocerybags from Festival Foods. Festival Foods distributed the bags on April 22. This project gave our entire student body an opportunity to send a positive message to the community about their concern for the environment.
Carole Foreman
Lincoln Elementary School
Shawano, WI USA 54166
Bags decorated: 300
Comments: The students in our 1-4 elementary school designed, decorated and delivered 300 bags to Pick n Save Grocery Store in Shawano. Pick n Save donated the bags to us. The students did a fantastic job. It was a great project.
Erica MacKinnon
Cedar Grove-Belgium Middle School
Cedar Grove Wisconsin, 53013
Bags decorated: 445
Comments: Thank you for organizing such a great project. We made Earth Day bags which were donated by the local Piggly Wiggly.
We decorated our bags in both English and in Spanish. We hope to have even more people participate next year.
Mary Anne Zimmerlee
Amity Elementary School
Brandon, WI USA
Bags decorated: 85
Comments: This was the first year we participated and almost everyone in our school decorated bags. My first grade class had been discussing how to take care of our Earth and they even came up with the idea of "doing something." At about that same time I had been exploring the intenet and found this website. The kids had a great time and we plan on doing it again next year,too!
Emily Terpstra
Central Wisconsin Christian Schools
Waupun, WI USA
Bags decorated: 110
Comments: My class has 22 students and we each made 5 bags, for a total of 110 bags. It was great fun
and it was exciting to be a part of a global project!
Ann Ericson
Van Hise Elementary
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Bags decorated: 100
Comments:
Great project! The kids (grades K/1) loved decorating the bag and being part of a worldwide
project. I enjoyed the article by Mark Ahlness in Science and Children. I hope to get our
whole elementary involved next year.
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: 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: 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
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
Clayton Elementary School (part of the Neenah Joint School District):
2916 W. Fairview Road
Neenah, Wisconsin, 54956
participated in the Earth Day Grocery Bag Project. This week our
students in grades K-5 had a great time decorating 300 bags from:
Pick 'N Save
647 S. Green Bay Road
Neenah, WI 54956
Store Director : Rob Bullock
The bags will be distributed on Earth Day, April 22. The local
newspaper, The Post Crescent, will be on hand for photos which will
appear in their paper along with a press release. We are very proud of
our students' effort. The bags are really neat. They did a nice job!
Thanks for the great idea.
Ardy Kreuter
Committee Chairperson for Earth Day/Arbor Day at Clayton School
Bags decorated: 300
Comments: We have our bags from our grocers! We start coloring on Monday, April 19.
We have lots to do to celebrate earth week all week.
Our little artists are looking forward to creating Earth Day bags.
Tim Brunner
Hillcrest Elementary School
Ellsworth, WI
This entire week our K5's,1st, and 2nd graders have been reading Earth Day books, learning out environmental studies, and getting pumped up about going to our local Pick-N-Save Grocery Store to pass out their bags. We will start making our bags on Monday. This kids just love it!!!
Jerry Cigliana
Cass Street School--Milwaukee Public Schools
Milwaukee, Wisconsin,USA
Bags decorated: 400
Leigh Donermeyer
Lowell School
401 Maple Avenue Madison, WI 53704
Bags decorated: 225
We had a great time decorating the bags. The kids all want to go to the grocery store now and hope to get one of the specially decortated bags.
Ann Pickett
Port Edwards Schools
Port Edwards, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Earth Day Groceries Reports - 1998
Please add us to the list of schools that participated in the grocery
bag earth day project.
We are a small school of 43 students, 13 fifth and sixth graders
decorated 56 bags for two local stores. Thanks, Mrs. Lauer and the 5th
and 6th graders.
Dennis Lauer jenlaka@execpc.com
St. Mary's School
145 6th Street
Hilbert, WI 54129
On April 27, 1998 Wyeville Elementary school decorated 135 grocery
bags as a part of an April Student Council Activity. The student council
planned two days of activities related to Earth and the environment. On April
27 we decorated grocery bags and calculated the amount of paper our school uses
and recycles in a day. We then calculated how much paper we use and recycle in
one year and then applied that to the number of trees we use. In one year we
use the equivalent of 3 trees and recycle the equivalent of .25 trees. On
April 28 we had an all school "paperless" day. It was very educational for all
involved.
Ilene Quartemont (IleneQ@Tomah.k12.wi.us)
Resource Teacher
Wyeville Elementary School
Tomah, Wisconsin
Wisconsin Earth Day Groceries Reports - 1997
We really enjoyed this project. We are a K-5 elementary school and
every child participated. Each classroom decided on their own Earth Day theme.
SuperSaver in Beloit gave us the grocery bags and we returned the decorated
bags on Earth Day for all of Beloit to see. We decorated 280 bags. We will be
doing this again next year. Thank-you for such a fun project.
Nancy Furman NANBLBD@pensys.com
First Grade Teacher
Robison Elementary
Beloit, WI
St. Joseph School in Rice Lake, Wisconsin has just completed decorating 500
bags for our local Marketplace grocery store. This is our first year for the
project. They were delivered in time for Earth Day. Great project for our
entire school (pre-K thru 8).
Bob Seabold
Teacher
4/25/97
208.134.196.20@discover.discover-net.net
Little Red School is a small country school about 3 miles outside the
city limits of Eau Claire, WI. This is the 12th year in a row that we
have decorated grocery bags with Earth Day themes. Ron's Castle Foods
was the recipient of our 141 Earth Day bags this year.
We also celebrated Earth Day this year by having our students plant
180 trees and wildlife shrubs in our school's nature area.
Thanks for including us in your well organized project this year. I
hope our school name appears on your site. Here is a link to our
homepage. It is located at:
http://www.ecnet.com/home/littlered
Ron Powers
Little Red School
Eau Claire, WI 54701
powersrd@uwec.edu
Our whole school had a great time with this project the day before
EarthDay. We decorated 233 bags donated by Supersaver for the project.
Mary Ann Reiss MReiss4464@aol.com
St. Lawrence School
Milwaukee
Greetings from Milwaukee, WI!
This year, our 2nd year of participating in the project, our
students decorated 366 grocery bags. The students completed
the project in their Spanish and French classes.
Thanks for creating such a worthwhile project!
John M. Schell jschell@omnifest.uwm.edu
University School of Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
http://www.usm.k12.wi.us
Our class decorated 19 bags for Skogen's IGA. We had a lot
of fun and look forward to shopping and being able to get
some of the earth day bags. We were happy to participate!!
Wendy Polito polwe@mail.onalaska.k12.wi.us
Grade 2 , Northern Hills School
Onalaska, Wisconsin
Hello Arbor Heights,
Onalaska Middle School in Onalaska, Wisconsin and Skogens IGA are glad
to participate in your valuable project once again. This year 850
students in grades 5-8 decorated bags for Earth Day. As we write to
you, the Mississippi River is three feet above flood stage in
Onalaska. At times like this, Mother Nature has her own way of making
us aware of our environment and our place in it, but participating in
your project helps us remember how fragile our natural environment is
and how important it is for all of us to remember that Earth Day is
everyday.
Thanka again,
Onalaska Middle School
oms5w@mail.onalaska.k12.wi.us
We are a sixth grade class of 48 students. We decorated 200 bags and
will deliver them to two grocery stores in town. Students illustrated facts
about pollution or an environment problem and then added a conservation message
around the illustrated fact. Students are looking forward to interviews from
the daily newspaper this Wednesday, April 16. Their bags decorate one entire
wall in our room. It is quite impressive. Thanks for a great project.
Jackie Cody jcody@newnorth.net
James Williams Junior High School
Rhinelander, WI 54501
Wisconsin Earth Day Groceries Reports - 1996
Hello from Athens Elementary School in Athens
Wisconsin. If you're looking for us on a map, we are
located near the geographic center of the northern
and western hemispheres at 45 latitude and 90
longitude.
We really enjoyed participating in your Earth Day
Groceries project. We decorated 258 bags donated
from Hartman's Variety and Athens IGA, our local
grocery stores. We hope that our messages from the
bags will entice our community to be more
"Earth-Wise". We've attached a photo that shows some
of our students with their artwork.
We would appreciate an emailed bag report sent to:
athensel@uscyber.com.
Thanks! Kathy Luther gr.4/5 &
Susan Kittson - Speech clinician.
I sent you four separate messages (one from each grade level
1-4) detailing how each group focused on a theme this year
while completing the project: Grade 1-Water, Grade 2-Ponds,
Grade 3-We are all connected, and Grade 4-Forests and Great
Lakes.
The project was a lot of fun. The bags were obtained from the
local Pick N Save grocery chain and we finished by completing
719 bags for distribution today. Our kids had fun composing and
sending the messages.
We are eager to hook up another class to further develop the
themes we explored.
Thank you for organizing this project!
Sincerely,
John M. Schell
Milwaukee, WI
jschell@omnifest.uwm.edu
We are first graders at University School
of Milwaukee in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Today,
for Earth Day, we went to the Milwaukee
River and we picked up 32 bags of trash!!!
On our bags we put water and healthy fish,
polluted water with a line through it,
pictures of water with unhealthy fish, a
picture of someone saying 'We want a healthy
Earth'. We made pictures of the Earth.
Pictures of circles with a line through it
that said expressed the idea of no pollution.
Please email us some ideas that you have about
studying water and water pollution. We would
love to hear from you!
Thank you for organizing this project!
Sincerely,
The First Graders
Our long term theme in science has been
ponds. This year we
visited ponds at Audubon Center in WI in the Fall and the Winter and
we will be visiting again this Spring. We learned a lot about ponds;
if you know something special about ponds that you'd like to share
with us, please send email.
Our bags were decorated with pictures
and slogans about ponds.
Some slogans included: Love A Pond, Care For Ponds, Be A Friend To A
Pond, Don't Litter Ponds, Don't Pollute In Ponds.
Our school is University School of
Milwaukee, located in
Milwaukee, WI. We are a private K-12 school with about 1,000 students.
Our school decorated a grand total of
719 bags. We took them to
the Pick N Save store on Friday and they are being distributed today,
Earth Day!
Thank you for organizing this project!
Sincerely,
Grade Two
Our school is University School of Milwaukee and we are in Milwaukee,
WI, located by a wonderful Great Lake, Lake Michigan.
Four third grade classes designed bags for Earth Day using the theme,
"Taking Care of The Earth" with an emphasis on the protection of
water, our wonderful resource. We read the books, "Dear Mother Earth"
and "Loving the Earth"; these helped us think about the important role
we play in our planet. We learned we are all connected and we need
each other.
In social studies, we are studying Colonial America. The oceans were
so important to the colonists for transportation and food. If you live
by the ocean, we would love to hear from you.
Our total bag count for University School was 719 bags. We
participated with the Pick N Save stores near our school.
Thank you for organizing this project. It was a lot of fun!
Sincerely,
The Third Grade Classes
In grade four, we used the theme "The Forest and The Great Lakes" for
our Earth Day Bags. Some of our slogans included, "Don't Pollute",
"Plant A Tree To Save The Forest", "Save A Tree Save A Life", "Kill A
Tree, Kill Yourself". All year we have been studying how to preserve
Wisconsin's forests and Great Lakes. If you know of anyone studying
similar topics, have them email us.
Thank you for organizing this project.
Sincerely,
The Grade Four Classes
University School of Milwaukee
2100 W. Fairy Chasm Road
Milwaukee, WI 53217
Hi! My name is Janet Pliner and I'm a second grade teacher at Shorewood
Hills Elementary School in Madison, Wisconsin. I organized the Earth Day
Groceries project within our school this month. On Friday, April 19th,
second grade students and teachers walked 500 decorated bags with
wonderful Earth Day messages to a local food store. We thoroughly
enjoyed the whole project... Thanks for a great idea!
jpliner@madison.k12.wi.us
We are a small country school about 3 miles outside the city limits of Eau
Claire, WI. Each of our students in grades K-5 decorated a grocery bag with
an Earth Day thems for the 11th year in a row. That was a total of 132 bags
for this year, which we returned to Ron's Castle Foods for customer use.
Our school site is on 22 acres where we have developed a wonderful nature
area and prairie restoration.
Thanks for including us in your well organized project this year. I hope
our school name appears on your site. We will include a link to it on our
homepage. It is located at:
http://www.ecnet.com/home/littlered
Ron Powers
Little Red School
Eau Claire, WI 54701
powersrd@uwec.edu
Dear Arbor Heights School,
Thanks for creating a fantastic environmental awareness project! The 850
fifth-eighth
grader (each creating a bag
for the project) from Onalaska Middle School and the generous people from Skogen's IGA
in
Onalaska, Wisconsin are first-time participants in your 1996 Earth Day
Groceries project. Onalaska is located along the beautiful Mississippi River on
Wisconsin's "West Coast." Our students and community members value the river
and its
surroundings, and participation in your project has helped us remind ourselves
how
lucky we are to live along the banks and among the bluffs of this threatened
and
valuable natural resource.
Keep up the great work,
Onalaska Middle School
711 Quincy St.
Onalaska, WI 54650
oms5w@mail.onalaska.ctenet.com
Wisconsin Earth Day Groceries Reports - 1995
The Bag Project was a success. The grocer (Woodman's of Beloit) was
more than willing to provide the bags and with a minimum of organization and
work we had a very stunning project. "If we all do a little, we can all do
a lot". The paper sent a photographer while the school was decorating the
bags so the project received some press besides. I also put a plug in for
you as the organizer and internet technology. We decorated 358 bags!!!
Thanks again for the idea. A simple yet effective project.
Regards,
John Soehnlein
6th Grade
Converse Elem. School
1602 Townline
Beloit, WI 53511
soehnlei@beloit.edu
Franklin School in Wausau, Wisconsin did not preregister for this event, but
we did decorate grocery bags for distribution on Earth Day as your project
suggested. If you would like to include our count in your project, we'd be
happy to be part of the effort. Our school is K-5, and almost all the
students decorated a bag.
Thanks for suggesting and organizing the project!
Franklin Elementary School
Wausau, WI
Total Bags Decorated: 324
Carol Otto, 2nd Grade Teacher
schofico@llwisc.ll.pbs.org
Would you post the grand total to the entire Kidsphere list or could
I receive the grand total number? THANKS!
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