1998 Earth Day Groceries Reports - Indiana
Our K-6th graders decorated approx. 300 bags for Sterk's grocery
store . We even got our bags written about in the local newspaper.As Earth Week
coordinator, I was unaware this activity was linked acrossthe nation. How
exciting tofind this info! We also collected pennies for the rainforest, did a
bio-degradable ballon release, made birthday cards for the earth, etc. We are
planning bigger things for next year...
Judy Lazar (lazar@mail.icongrp.com)
Washington Elementary
East Chicago IN 46312
What a wonderful project! Bright Elementary (gr 1-5) decorated 500
grocery bags and they were distributed by the local Krogers store. Please add
us to your statistics.
Cathy Mund (cmund@seidata.com)
Bright Elementary
Bright, Indiana
Sycamore's ECOS club (the Environmental Club Of Sycamore) sponsored
the grocery bags project this year. As far as we know, we were the only school
in Indianpolis, IN to participate. We decorated 492 bags and distributed them
to our local Kroger grocery store. It was a great project! More bags next
year!!
Kara Findley (go2xtream@aol.com)
Sycamore School
www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2326
Indianapolis, IN
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
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
I am pleased to report that my first grade classroom in Logansport,
IN organized several grade levels and colored 252 grocery bags for the 1998
Earth Day Groceries project. Martins Supermarket helped us get the message out
by loaning us the bags and then putting them up on display in their store until
April 22, when they sent our environmental messages home with their customers.
The project was enjoyed by all and we plan to do even more next year! Thanks
for organizing and sharing this event with us.
Jane Williams (willfam@cqc.com), 1st grade teacher
Kenesaw Mountain Landis Elementary
Logansport, IN
The students at Amelia Earhart Elementary in Lafayette,
Indiana had a lot of fun decorating grocery bags. We made
this a school wide project and decorated 464 bags!
Lesley Dause (ldause@lsc.k12.in.us)
Amelia Earhart Elementary
Lafayette, Indiana
As rookies to this Earthly project, we had only two days to complete
it. We are proud to report that our school designed 560 grocery bags that were
distributed by our Sterk's Supermarket. Thanks to them and to Arbor Heights
Elementary School.
Kay Sarti (kaysarti@jorsm.com)
Lafayette Elementary
Hammond, Indiana
Great project! Students at our school enjoyed educating
the public. The grocery store clerks were very excited
about looking at the sacks, too! We decorated 585 bags.
Mrs. Emily Bradley (jlbradley@iquest.net)
Center Grove Elementary
Greenwood, IN
Just reporting in that our afterschools in Greenwood, Indiana decorated 100
grocery bags with earth slogans. This was such a great community involvement.
We also put seed packets on the bags so the community could extend their
thinking and remember to reduce, reuse, and beautify. The children also gained
new knowledge about the importance of respecting our earth and the environment.
We worked with our local Kroger store. The children took a field trip to the
store to deliver the
grocery bags in person. Without Kroger's willingness to become community
involved, we would not have been able to reach so many people with such an
important message. The children at Discovery Junction Preschool and Childcare
are dedicated to saving our planet. Looking forward to next year!
Thanks so much!
Debby Hartman dhartman@iquest.net
Greenwood, IN
The Students from Newton Yost Elementary School in Northwest Indiana
decorated 452 Earth Day Bags. We really enjoyed participating in this
global project and would like to thank Costas Foods for helping us
celebrate Earth Day. Happy Earth Day 1998 :)
Sharon Klahn sharon.klahn@duneland.k12.in.us
Yost Elementary School
Porter, Indiana
Our school participated by decorating 336 grocery bags.
Shelley Slunaker (sslunake@ci01.western.k12.in.us)
Western High School
Russiaville, Indiana
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
When I sent you our report I didn't realize our other
elementary school was particpating also. Decker Elementary decorated
123 bags bringing our total to 478 altogether!! Sorry for the
inconvenience. I'll let you know when your webpage on Earth Day is up
and running!
Thanks,
Lisa Wilson wilsonlk@yahoo.com
South Knox Elementary School
Monroe City, IN
Over 250 bags were decorated by seventh graders at our school. We
delivered the decorated bag to three local stores today.
Sandi Sallee (Sandi_Sallee%BMS@batesville.k12.in.us)
Batesville Middle School
Batesville, IN
Hi! I am writing you from South Knox Elementary School in Monroe City
Indiana. Our students K-5 decorated a total of 355 grocery bags. We
"borrowed" the bags from our local Red and White grocery store. We
really enjoyed particpating in this project. We are in the process of
putting some examples and photos on our website. Thanks!
Lisa Wilson, Computer Lab Assistant lwilson@siec.k12.in.us
South Knox Elementary School
Monroe City, IN 47557
75 bags!!!!!
Archie Lintz (ablintz@mail.fwi.com)
Mary Raber School
Northeast Indiana
1997 Earth Day Groceries Reports - Indiana
Sorry to send this message on the '98 report,I can't seem to send
directly to Mark.
Our school took part in the Earth Day Groceries project in both '96 and '97. I
can't remember
sending info back in '96, but I did send info in '97.
Would it be possible to list us on your map? We will be doing the project
again this year.
We have about 200 students in grades K-6.
Last year, about 100 students participated, and we decorated about 150 sacks we
obtained from our
local store, Food Basket.
Thanks,
Julie Poor jpoor_msdwc@hotmail.com
Teacher, Grade Three
Williamsport Elementary School
Williamsport, Indiana
I wanted to make you aware that our school did participate in the Earth Day
grocery bag activity. Approximately 200 bags were decorated and distributed
at Schultz IGA, a local grocery store. The decorators were sixth grade
students from Frankfort Middle School in Frankfort, IN. Several teachers
assisted, and Mrs. Knight, science teacher, was the coordinator of the
project. If there is any more information you need regarding our
involvement, please let me know. Thank you!!!
Angela Knight knight@accs.net
Frankfort Middle School
Frankfort, IN
Columbia Elementary participated in the Earth Day Groceries Project. We
are in Rochester, Indiana and Krogers was our grocery store that donated
500 brown bags. We are a Primary through second grade elementary school.
The children really liked this project. They really think they are a part
of Earth Day 1997! The Kroger staff was very eager to link with us in
making this project very successful! We would like to thank our local Kroger
Grocery Store for helping us make this a great Earth Day project!
Dennis Grossnickle dengro@townsquare.net
8th Grade students at ISMS are decorating 450 bags donated by Scotts
Groceries for distribution on Earthday.
Bill Duffy Bill_Duffy@wccs.k12.in.us
Indian Springs Middle School
Columbia City, IN
1996 Earth Day Groceries Reports - Indiana
I misplaced your email address and so could not send the update from Neil A.
Armstrong Elementary School. Our ecology club sponsored the grocery bag
project and every student grades k-6 decorated a bag which was distributed
through our local IGA store. That is approximately 600 bags from
Mooresville, Indiana! Thanks for sponsoring such a great project.
Cheri Piercefield
p645250@indy.net
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