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We loved the whole project! Thanks! We want to participate next year, too!
Applied Technology (cayers@tesd.k12.pa.us)
Devon Elementary School
http://www.tesd.k12.pa.us/
Devon, Pennsylvania
Based on information received from the Paper Bag Council of the American Forest and Paper Association:
800 bags
-- Pottsgrove Elementary School
-- Pottsgrove, PA
Based on information received from the Paper Bag Council of the American Forest and Paper Association:
200 bags
-- The Walden School
-- Swarthmore, PA
Based on information received from the Paper Bag Council of the American Forest and Paper Association:
200 bags
-- Step by Step Learning Center
-- Morton, PA
This is the first year for our school to participate. We are a small rural
school with one room of each grade K-6. We decorated 225 bags and distributed
them to two local grocery stores. The students enjoyed the project and did a
great job. We also sent announcements to the local newspaper.
Kelly Terwilliger (kterwilliger@csonline.net)
Bruin Elementary
Bruin, Pennysylvania
Hi,
Our school decorated approximately 250 bags for Earth Day. This included first
thru fifth grades.
The children really enjoyed the activity, and I almost hated giving their bags
away. some of them were absolutely beautiful. I'm sure people who received
them would agree.
One thing you might mention is to be sure that the students do not use marker,
as it would run, and make the clients and customers unhappy.
Thanks for providing us with such a great idea...fun, easy, and valuable!
Dana Donahoe (ADonahoe@aol.com)
Hosack Elementary
Pittsburgh, PA
This was the first year our school participated in this worthwhile
project. K through grade 4 decorated 500 grocery bags. They were donated by
Fox's Market of Middletown. The bags carried a variety of earth friendly
slogans and great artwork! Third graders got an extra treat. We toured the
store on Earth Day and saw the project in action. The children were thrilled.
One shopper personally thanked the child who made the bag she received. Our
efforts were written about in the local newspapers and carried on 3 local TV
stations. The third graders were even proclaimed "Home Town Heroes" for
spreading the Earth Day message. This may have been our first year but it
won't be our last. Next year I hope to have 100% classroom participation.
Margaret Moore (MMoore9421@aol.com)
Kunkel Elementary
Middletown, PA
The entire student body at our school (1st thru 4th grade)
participated in this wonderful project. Close to 400 bags were carefully
decorated and then sent to a local store for distribution on Earth Day. The
children (and staff) responded in a positive fashion and we all hope that the
community felt the same when receiving the bags!!! Thanks for the GREAT idea!!!
Dawn Davidovich (dawngd@yahoo.com)
Library Elementary School
South Park School District, Pgh. PA
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
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
Mayfair School participated in its first the annual Internet Earth Day
Grocery Project. This year, a total of 500 shopping bags were decorated by
students in grades first through eight. The bags were decorated with the
Earth, Rain forests, exotic animals, people planting trees and people
cleaning up litter. Many students outlined their drawings with yarn. The
most creative bag featured a drawing of Earth with a band-aid across
it. The Logo said "Heal the Earth!"
The Shop Rite supermarket on Frankford and Knorr donated the shopping
bags to Mayfair School. On Earth Day, each customer received one
decorated shopping bag per order.
Seena Osno sosno@phila.k12.pa.us
Computer Science Teacher
http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/schools/mayfair
Pennsylvania
Happy Earth Day! The grocery bag project was a great idea. We had a
terrific time creating bags with environmentally aware slogans and
illustrations. Some of the kids did a fantastic job; I wanted to go to
the grocery store to get one of their bags! The local supermarket was
very generous with the supplies. I hope next year when I have my own
classroom to do the project again! Maybe more teachers will get their
students involved with the Earth Day project.
Lesson plans to write and units to develop....have to go! Celebrate the
earth and don't hurt the dirt!
Thanks Again,
Paulette Pallo ppallo@falcon.lhup.edu
Student Teacher
Fifth Grade
Mill Hall Elementary School
Mill Hall, PA 17751
This is our second year participating the the Earth Day grocery bag
project. The 367 kindergarten through 5th grade students at Jackson Elementary
decorated 412 grocery bags. The bags were distributed at our local Riverside
Market in Vinco and the Giant Eagle Supermarket in Ebensburg.
Teresa Soyka (tsoyka@cambrianews.com)
Jackson Elementary
Mundy's Corner, PA
We think this is a good cause. We liked putting the messages
on the bags so that people will know what to do. Putting them on
a grocery bag is a good idea.
Mr.Trama's 3rd Grade Class (mtrama@itrc.dciu.k12.pa.us)
Ithan Elementary School
Bryn Mawr, PA
Edwin Forrest Elementary School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
decorated 550 grocery bags from the Super Fresh at Rhawn and
Torresdale Avenues.
Kathleen Hanratty hanratty@sdp2.philsch.k12.pa.us
The students from 5-F and 5-G at Chartiers Valley Intermediate
School participated in this project in conjunction with the
Heidelberg Shop-N-Save at Raceway Plaza in Bridgeville, PA.
The fifth grade students enjoyed decorating over 100 grocery
bags with earth-friendly messages. We only found out about
the project last week, so our participation this year was
limited. Next year, we would like to expand the project to
other classes/grades!
Alicia Gismondi/Pat Sienicki-Jackson (alicia.gismondi@chartiersvalley.k12.pa.us)
Chartiers Valley Intermediate School
Pittsburgh, PA
This was our first year participating in this project. Our entire
school, grades K-6, decorated 500 grocery bags. The students did an outstanding
job on their artwork as well as their slogans!
Jennifer Hodgkinson (jennifer_hodgkinson@rlasd.k12.pa.us)
Mazie Gable Elementary
Red Lion Pennsylvania
500 bags
6th graders
Terri-Anne Reese (elliott-lhar94a@prodigy.com)
Northley Middle School
Aston, PA
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
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!!)
The science students at Marticville Middle School decorated 400 bags
for Earth Day. The bags will be used at John Herr's Market in Millersville,
Pennsylvania. The students did an excellent job decorating the bags with
environmental messages. They enjoyed participating in the activity. We also
had a friendly judging competition of the bags. People from the community,
teachers, faculty, and students voted for their favorite bag. We look forward
to participating in 1999! :)
Kelly Buhay (kelly.buhay@pmsd.k12.pa.us)
Marticville Middle School
Pequea, PA
This will be our first year participating I got all your info
and presented to our principal and she liked the idea.Our
local grocery store(Giant Eagle) will be handing out our bags.This is a great
idea.We will be decorating 170 bags.
Sue Themis (Suztbn@aol.com)
Shaw Elementary
North Huntingdon,Pa
We have decorated 300 bags(half of our school), however we received
a letter a couple of days after the store generously donated the bags
that due to sanitary reasons they cannot use them! :(
Any suggestions
Denise A Russo (DRusso556@aol.com)
Grasse Elementary; Sellersville, PA
Norristown, PA
Pennsylvania Earth Day Groceries Reports - 1997
This was my first time with Earth Day Groceries Project and I was
able to get around 12 classes involved. All together we decorated 350
bags and displayed them in Giant Food Store, Hershey, PA. I hope to
participate
next Earth Day and expand throughout all the grades. Thank you for a
wonderful project.
Doris Ortyl ortyls@paonline.com
Senior-Penn State-Harrisburg
Nye Elementary-Hummelstown, PA
Harrisburg, PA
The Lancaster Country Day School wanted to announce that they decorated
300 bags for a local grocery store. The bag project was organized for grades
kindergarten thru eighth grade, by the K.A.R.E (Kind Acts Returned Everyday)
club. This club is made of 26 middle schoolers who plan projects for the
school and volunteer in the community. Thank you for the great idea, it will
be a new tradition for Country day.
Thanks Again,
The K.A.R.E club
AFMF1997@aol.com
Our students decorated 400 bags for the local Giant Eagle store. The
students were very creative and the store manager was thrilled to have the bags
to pass out on Earth Day.
G. Ditchcreek rwd440@surfshop.net
Jackson Elementary
Mundy's Corner, Pa.
This is the second year that Hilltop Elementary School, Aston, PA
(suburb of Philadelphia) participated in this project. Grades K-4
decorated 450 bags which were distributed through our local Super
Fresh market. We are looking forward to participating in next year's
project. Thanks to all who make this worthwhile Earth Day activity
possible!
Elaine Scarpino elainesc@worldnet.att.net
Evans Falls
Elementary School, Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, decorated 325 grocery
bags.
For the first time, Evans Falls students participated in the
"project" by decorating grocery bags donated by the local Mr. Z's grocery
store. I was told by a store representative that the bags could not be
returned to the store for them to package grocery orders. This, he said, is
due to a state regulation. The art teacher directed the designing of the Earth
Day messages during art class. The students then took the bags home with
encouragement from their teachers to give them to someone for use during Earth
Day week.
Elaine Wall elainew@epix.net
Evans Falls Elementary School
Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania
Forrest School decorated 500 grocery bags from the Super Fresh at
Rhawn St. and Torresdale Ave. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.It was fun because
you got to tell parents not to litter. The whole project was fun because we
want to save animals and the earth from harm. It was fun because we got to
learn about how to protect animals.
We liked the project because we had fun reading articles about saving animals
with our science teacher before we decorated the bags. It's exciting to save
living things. It's thrilling that somebody is going to get our bags at the
grocery store and read and enjoy our message.
Kathleen T. Hanratty hanratty@sdp2.philsch.k12.pa.us
Cottage & Bleigh Streets Phila, PA 19136
Edwin Forrest Elementary School
http://philsch.k12.pa.us/schools/forrestelem/forrest.htm
The Primary Center children (a multiage arrangement of first
and second graders) at Highland Elementary School in Camp
Hill, PA participated in this wonderful Earth Day project.
The children designed 160 artistic grocery bags! The bags
were delivered to a local Weis Markets and distributed on
Pennsylvania's Earth Day - April 22, 1997.
Pam Felix felixkp@redrose.net
Highland Elementary
Camp Hill, PA
http://www.wssd.k12.pa.us/HG/HG.home.html
Lower Pottsgrove Elementary is a K-5 school in Pottstown, PA.
Students and staff members decorated 730 grocery bags donated by the American
Paper and Forest Association. Kemp's Market located in Pottstown, will
distribute the bags during Earth week, April 20th-25th. We had a great time
participating in a project that promotes environmental awareness throughout the
community. We look forward to receving the results of this project. Our
school's efforts made the local paper, The Mercury, as well as being shown on
KYW-TV's Channel 3, "Cool School" segment on Tuesday, April 15th. Thank you
for a great idea! Happy Earth Day! :)
Shari Costanzo (sbcvwc@erols.com)
Lower Pottsgrove Elementary
Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Our school, The Walden School at 100 College Ave., in Swarthmore, Pa. has so
far decorated over 250 bags for Earth Day!
We will be returning them to the store, Super Fresh on Tuesday morning.
Thank You.
Marji Romanski
Project Coordinator
Waldeneer@aol.com
Greetings from Morton Elementary School in Philadelphia, Pa. We are a
kindergarten to fourth grade school. The students decorated 500 bags that
were donated by the Stop & Shop supermarket. We are the first school in
our area to participate in this project.
Seena Osno sosno@sdp2.philsch.k12.pa.us
http://www.phila.k12.pa.us/Schools/Morton/
This is Main Street Elementary's first year to participate
in the Earth Day Groceries project. Both major chain grocery
stores supported the project with donations. Mark Cook of
Bilo Foods and Mike Oviatt of Quality Markets visited the
school on April 18 where representatives from each classroom
presented the finished bags. First Graders sorted and
counted the bags. A total of 564 bags will be distributed
on Earth Day 1997.
Alison Billman akbtown@toolcity.net
Main Street Elementary
Titusville, PA
We liked decorating the earth day grocery bags. Mrs. Costanzo is Rachel's
kindergarten teacher. Becky helped to count the bags, our school is sending
out approximately 800 bags. Our school was on the news. A helicopter came and
took pictures of us decorating our bags. We were even in the newspaper. We
hope this project makes people stop and think about the earth.
Becky and Rachel Lindgren Berasaki@aol.com
Lower Pottsgrove Elementary
Pennsylvania
The Paper Bag Council sent 400 bags to Landisville Middle School.
On Friday April 11, 300 seventh graders decorated the bags with Earth Day
messages. The bags are all hanging up on display at our school and we are
having a friendly judging contest of the bags. The local grocery stores in the
Hempfield School District will be using the bags on Earth Day. Both the
students and teachers at our school enjoyed this activity. :)
Kelly Buhay Kelly_Buhay@qmgateway.iu13.pa.us
Landisville Middle School
Landisville, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Earth Day Groceries Reports - 1996
Geeeez...I am so sorry...I must be brain dead...I have so busy I forgot
to tell you that we at Turner Elementary in Pittsburgh decorated 280 bags
Hope for more next year...this is the first year for this school
Jim Diederich
diederic@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us
This is the first year that Dorseyville Middle School has been involved in
the Earth Day Groceries Project. Approximately 150 bags were designed with
Earth Day messages by our sixth graders. Teachers were quite pleased with
the results and feel the students and the community learned some valuable
lessons. We plan to expand the activities next year.
It's a great project. Thank you for getting it started.
Janet Phillips
Gifted Support Teacher
Fox Chapel Area Schools
Pittsburgh, PA
phillips@chapel.fcasd.edu
Thank you for including me in the Earth Day Grocery Bag event again this
year. My students thoroughly enjoyed themselves. I teach at an inner
city school in Pittsburgh, PA. My entire school is compsed of sixth
through eighth graders. We decorated an returned 1,000 bags this year to
the local grocery store. My students were very interested in sharing the
idea of saving the Earth with others in this way. Thank you once again
for your help and reminder in March. We'll participate again next year,
I'm sure.
Sincerely, Debra Simpson, Arsenal Middle School
simpson@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us
Our fourth grade class organized the Earth Day Grocery Bag project for our
school. With the support of the manager, (Mr. Mullen), from our local Super
Fresh supermarket, 410 grocery bags are ready for distribution on Earth Day.
We are a K-4 school located in Aston, Pennsylvania - approximately 20 south
of Philadelphia, near the Delaware border. We are from Hilltop School which
is part of the Chichester School District. Many thanks to you and your
students for organizing such a worthwhile project!
We would like to receive e-mail from the other schools. HAPPY EARTH DAY!
Elaine Scarpino
Elainescar@aol.com
Pennsylvania Earth Day Groceries Reports - 1995
Just wanted you to know that our 3 third grade classes--76 students--
completed 150 Earth Day bags for 2 small stores near our school. A city
newspaper 30 miles a way even came to do a color photo for Sat. edition.
Thanks for the project idea. We're waiting anxiously for your reports.
Chestnut Ridge District--Central Elementary
New Paris, PA 15554
3rd grade
Bonnie Dillner, hsx00015@llpptn.ll.pbs.org
We at Wallingford Elementary School, in suburban Philadelphia, have created
about three hundred Earth Day Grocery Bags, to be distributed at the local
Acme supermarket. There was an article in the local newspaper about it
too.
Thank you for coordinating this easy, fun, visibility-producing project.
--Debbie Wile
Wallingford Elementary School
Near Philadelphia, PA, USA
debbie@forum.swarthmore.edu
The students at Arsenal Middle School in Pittsburgh, PA decorated 415
grocery bags which were delivered to our local grocery store to be
distributed Saturday. Thanks for the idea. All of our students became
very excited about the project and created some wonderful, inventive bags
to make people aware of Earth day. I was so pleased with the project. I
can't wait until next year!! We have sixth, seventh, and eigth graders
at our school and students from all grade levels participated. I look
forward to your reports so that I can share the information with my
students and other staff. Happy Earth Day!
Debra Simpson
simpson@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us
The Earth Day Project went very well at the two schools I am at.
Here are the totals.
Chatham Elementary, Pittsburgh, Pa.........302
Madison Elementary, Pittsburgh, Pa.........432
It was really great to be a part of this.
I have made certificates for all students who decorated a bag.
Take Care,
Jim Diederich
Pittsburgh Public Schools
diederic@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us
Just a report from Tyrone, Pennsylvania.We are a small rural school
district in central PA - near the home of the Nittany Lions (PSU). Our 4
elementary schools total 1,200 students decorated 1,325 bags donated from 2
local grocery stores. We also had an article in our local paper detailing
this event and focusing support for Earth Day. I'm looking forward to
sharing data with my other schools.
Thanks for a job well done!
Vicki Aults
5th Grade Teacher
vla101@email.psu.edu
This is to announce that Edgeworth Elementary School, Quaker Valley
School District, decorated 400 bags for the 25th Anniversary Earth Day
Celebration. All students in Grades K-5 participated. Our 6th graders
are also going to decorate the bags soon. We worked with our local
grocery store, called "Safrans." Lou Safran is the owner. Our local
newspaper, the Sewickley HERALD, took photographs of customers getting
groceries in our bags, and I'm sure the article will appear in the paper
soon. Our community is great for helping our schools!
You will be pleased to learn that one child already received a lovely
note from a parent who received her bag. It says:
"April 19, 1995...
Dear Meredith,
I felt so proud to take my groceries home in your decorated bag
yesterday. I was so proud that you and some of the other students at
Edgeworth chose that project. I see it was for Earth Day.
On my bag, you reminded me to "cut pop can rings." I try to
remember to do that and my family helps, too! My sister scuba dives and
has seen sea turtles caught in pop can rings that were left on the beach
and were washed up from the ocean. When she told me about how the they
were dying from being caught, I realized just how important it was.
Your art work with the bird and the earth was very well done. Your
choice of colors and the size of your illustrations really made the bag
and message noticeable.
Enjoy the rest of your school year.
Sincerely, Mrs. Martha D. Smith
P.S. I have saved the bag and I am going to display it at a meeting
with Dr. Longo next week.
+++++++
(Dr. Longo is the Superintendent of our Quaker Valley Schools.) I loved
your project from the first time I saw it last year on the Internet,
Mark, but I was too busy. This year I made it a priority, and hope to
be back next year.
On Saturday, April 22, 1995, Dr. Bob Fusco, Dr. Joe Marrone and I
introduced our "Sewickley Net" to our community in the Large Group Room
of our School. It will give our whole community (schools, banks,
libraries, hospital, YMCA, etc.) access to the WWW. At our inaugural
celebration, we displayed 3 of our Earth Day grocery bags.
Unfortunately, I was so busy helping to put the Sewickley Net together,
I only read your message about the Grocery WWW page tonight! Oh well,
for our next demo, it will be there for all to see....right?
Great job! We're proud to have been a small part of it!
Mim Bizic,
Library Media Specialist, Edgeworth Elementary....
bizicm@calvin.cc.duq.edu xoxoxo
Gus and Mim Bizic - bizic@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us
(This school already sent in their "bag count" - Mark)
I was at a conference today sponsored by Wentworth Media of Classroom
Connect. People from all over our Tri-State Area attended (PA, Ohio,
WV). I showed them all of the pages I had downloaded from your WWW site
last night, and they told all of the participants about it. So, there's
more advertising for next year's feat!
Also, I sent a few sample pages of your tallies to 5 of our local
newspapers..... I think they'll be impressed. What a great job this
Mark. We all appreciate it! Thanks again.
Mim Bizic, Edgeworth Elementary School, Sewickley, PA 15143
bizic@oberon.pps.pgh.pa.us
The Porter Township Elementary School in Lamar, Pennsylvania,
decorated 135 grocery bags, designed by all of our students K-6. They
were then distributed to our local supermarket.
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Boyce Middle School sixth grade students have been most creative in
decorating grocery bags for the Earth Day Grocery Bag project during the past
weeks. We will be delivering 235 bags to one of our local grocery stores on
Thursday in preparation for Earth Day on April 22.
Good luck with your final count. We'll be interested to hear the final
results.
Carol Hochman
Boyce M.S. Reading Resource Teacher
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
e-mail addresses: AOL CarolH1541@aol.com.
INTERNET hochman@vms.cis.pitt.edu
My 33 Elementary Enrichment (gifted) students took on your project
with a whopping success. They distributed 400 grocery bags to various
classrooms in three different elementary schools and returned them to the
grocery store on Wednesday, April 20. The grocery store was so intrigued
by the project that they displayed the bags in their store before they
used them. The students who delivered the bags had their picture taken by
the local newspaper and made the FRONT PAGE. I can't thank you enough for
bringing this project to me. The students (and our community) have become
much more aware of Environmental issues, and the project was a lot of fun!
We are from Keystone Central School District in Lock Haven, Pa. As a
point of reference, we are about 25 miles from Penn State University.
Sorry I couldn't get this information to you by April 21, but I was out
of town at a conference and just minutes ago received your e-mail.
Thanks again!
Mrs. Sheila Bauman
sbauman@eagle.lhup.edu
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