Earth Day Groceries Reports, 2008-2009-2010

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Tammy Jones-Lepp
lepp_tammy@hotmail.com
Troop 520
Las Vegas, NV USA
 
We decorated 20 bags!
About our project: We bought 20 cloth grocery bags. The girls decorated the bags with Earth Day stencils and silk screened mottos & symbols. They made a poster for display at the store. The morning of Earth Day, 2010, the bags & display were delivered. We asked the manager if the bags could be donated to those who might not otherwise buy a re-usable cloth bag, e.g., senior citizens, etc.. We spoke to the manager afterwards, and he said our project was a success, and that everyone who got a bag was delighted with the artwork the girls had done.
Report submitted on 5/27/2010

Fodor Eugenia

Sc. Gen. Coldau
Coldau, . Romania
 
We decorated 12 bags!
About our project: Micutii scolari din clasele I-IV ai Scolii Generale Coldau indrumati de prof. inv. Fodor Eugenia au realizat de Ziua Pamantului un poster intitulat ,,La Multi Ani Terra" ,au desenat si au scris mesaje ECO pe 12 pungi de hartie pe care le-au dus la libraria ,,Casa Alba" pentru a fi distribiuite in randul populatiei.Activitatea s-a desfasurat in cadrul unui parteneriat de educatie ecologica cu elevii din clasa a IV -a de la CSEI Beclean indrumati de prof. Silvesan Tatiana. See More
Report submitted on 5/26/2010

Ana Radu
ana.radu@yahoo.com
Axente Sever
Sibiu, . Romania
 
We decorated 200 bags!
About our project: About our project: We saw your web site. 2009 was the first year when we have participated to this project. The kids enjoyed making the bags so we decide to do it again this year. We hope to make this a yearly event. Children involved in this project were from: kindergarten Axente Sever, Agarbiciu (small villages from Romania) and gymnasium. The most original papers received prices. The project was successful as it brought into attention the importance of protecting our environment.
Report submitted on 5/22/2010

Silvesan Tatiana
tatianasilvesan@yahoo.com
CSEI
Beclean, . Romania
 
We decorated 10 bags!
About our project: Elevii clasei a IV-a de la CSEI Beclean indrumati de prof. Silvesan Tatiana au participat la actiuni de ecologizare pe malul Somesului.De ziua Pamantului s-au realizat obiecte din materiale reciclabile si un poster intitulat ,,Salvati Pamantul" .Au decorat 15 pungi cu mesaje ECO care au fost duse la magazinul SC Neira.
Report submitted on 5/20/2010

Diana Ch.
natashai03@hotmail.com
Cook-Wissahickon Elementary
Philadelphia, PA USA
webgui.phila.k12.pa.us/schools/c/cookwissahickon
We decorated 300 bags!
About our project: This was our second year doing this project. It was very exciting, almost every classroom in the school participated, our kids decorated 300 bags! Overall it was a wonderful experience for the kids, teachers and the parents involve, many thanks to them and to SHOPRITE Roxborough Supermarket for their support. We hope to do it again next year. It is a great cause! To see our project pictures please click on http://cook-wiss.wikispaces.com/Earth+Bags, Thanks.
Report submitted on 5/17/2010

Tracey Giordano
drtck@aol.com
Brownie Troop 515
Verona, NJ USA
myoll.org
We decorated 45 bags!
About our project: We had a lot of fun making up cute earth friendly sayings! We hope the customers enjoyed our art work!!!
Report submitted on 5/17/2010

Mirna Miranda
mmiranda15@dadeschools.net
North Hialeah Elementary
Hialeah, FL USA
nhes.dadeschools.net/
We decorated 365 bags!
About our project: After visiting a few supermarkets, I came across a very friendly and generous manager at Publix on Bird Road and 78th in Westchester Miami, who donated to us almost 400 bags for our project. It was not our local grocery store, but one of the only who were able to donate such a large amount of bags at once. After gratefully accepting the bags, we distributed to our teachers at North Hialeah Elementary. The students were very excited about participating in this project. Their bags expressed their concern for the Earth and persuading people to help. Some even gave tips on how to save our planet. We had all our grades participate, so we had everything from simple drawings and texts to more elaborate and detailed ones. All of them got there message across. Besides the students being excited about participating in this project, the teachers at North Hialeah Elementary were as well. Some of them even decorated their own bags! They were delivered back to the Publix on Bird Road and 78th and they were proudly used on Earth Day 2010!
Report submitted on 5/16/2010

dana rojan
danarojan71@yahoo.com
Gradinita nr 2 Marghita
Marghita, Other Romania
 
We decorated 120 bags!
About our project: RAPORT Privind activitatea desfăşurată de Grădiniţa cu Program Prelungit Nr. 2 Marghita, judeţul Bihor, ţara România, în cadrul proiectului internaţional „Earth Day Groceries Project”, care are ca obiectiv conştientizarea faptului că folosind pungile de hârtie în locul celor de plastic prelungim durata de viaţă a Pământului. Acest proiect se derulează deja cu tradiţie în grădiniţa noastră şi copiii abia aşteaptă zilele în care vor decora pungile de hârtie şi le vor duce la magazin pentru a fi oferite gratuit clienţilor. Din păcate este abia primul an în care trimitem raportul cu privire la derularea acestui proiect, dar avem satisfacţia că o facem. Pungile de hârtie le-am procurat cu uşurinţă de la managerul unui magazin , pe care l-am informat despre acţiunea noastră şi finalitatea ei. Ştiind de impactul acestei acţiuni încă din anii precedenţi, am avut în patronii de magazine adevăraţi aliaţi. Ei ne-au furnizat 120 de pungi de hârtie pe care le-am împărţit la toţi copiii din grădiniţă. Copiii s-au întrecut în conceperea de mesaje ecologice pe pungi de hârtie, de la grupa mică până la grupa pregătitoare, fiecare după puterile lui, în perioada 12-20 aprilie 2010. În data de 21 aprilie am făcut o plimbare cu copiii la magazinele partenere, unde am lăsat pungile pe mâini bune. Trebuie să subliniez rolul important al părinţilor copiilor preşcolari, care au fost informaţi de acest proiect şi care au aşteptat mai nerăbdători decât copiii să facă cumpărături în pungile decorate de aceştia; ei sunt cei care ne-au popularizat acţiunea în rândul comunităţii locale, drept urmare, în data de 22 aprilie 2010, de Ziua Pământului, când s-au pus în circulaţie pungile noastre, am văzut părinţi mai fericiţi, mai zâmbitori, clienţi încântaţi. Dar pungile s-au epuizat rapid, ecoul existenţei lor a dăinuit zile la rând, fiind cerute încontinuu. Ne mândrim cu această acţiune, unică în oraş, la nivel de grădiniţe, cu atât mai mult cu cât mesajele ecologice transmise de noi au ajuns în casele copiilor, bunicilor, cunoscuţilor, vecinilor din comunitate, care au avut ocazia să aprecieze şi să preţuiască munca noastră. Dintre cele mai folosite mesaje transmise amintim: păstrează curăţenia oraşului sau parcului; îngrijeşte florile; plantează un copac; preţuieşte apa şi aerul curat; adună selectiv gunoiul, etc. În acest proiect s-au implicat toate cadrele didactice şi 120 de copii din grădiniţă, după cum urmează: director Hurban Maria şi educatoarele: Ardelean Mariana, Oros Elisabeta, Rojan Daniela, Filimon Corina, Portelechi Eugenia, Paca Nadia, Pop Dana, Manciu Ioana, Maghiar Doina, Gut Mirela, Szakacs Daniela, Sabău Susana. Ca să vedeţi bucuria copiilor în aceste acţiuni, ataşăm câteva poze care ilustrează evident că ne-am atins obiectivul: am înlocuit măcar 120 de pungi de plastic cu cele de hârtie şi i-am îndemnat pe cei din jurul nostru să facă la fel, contribuind astfel la sănătatea Pământului. Dar să nu uităm că nu doar azi e Ziua Pământului. Nu este singura zi în care trebuie să vorbim despre mediu, despre ecologie, şi despre implicarea în acţiunile comunităţii. 22 aprilie, ca şi Ora Pământului, e doar un prilej de reamintire că Pământul suferă din cauza noastră şi că nu avem voie să rămânem indiferenţi! NOUĂ CHIAR NE PASĂ!!!!! Prof.Ardelean Mariana-Simona G.P.P. Nr. 2 Marghita, jud. Bihor, Romania
Report submitted on 5/12/2010

maureen baldwin
mbaldwin@brigantineschools.org
brigaantine
brigantine, NJ USA
 
We decorated 50 bags!
About our project: Fifty of our students in the 5th and 6th grade participated in The Groceries Bag Project.
Report submitted on 5/11/2010

Myra Cook
myracook@craven
A W Edwards Elem
Havelock, NC USA
 
We decorated 600 bags!
About our project: Our students painted, colored, wrote messages on 600 bags. We used the bags to teach our students and community about the importance of taking care of our earth everyday. Students loved decorating the bags and parents enjoyed receiving them as they shopped on Earth Day. Great project that we would like to participate in again next school year.
Report submitted on 5/11/2010

Tayo McGuirk
tayo_mcguirk@dpsk12.org
Smith Renaissance School of the Arts
Denver, CO USA
 
We decorated 700 bags!
About our project: Our students, as young as four years old, decorated 700 bags with colorful designs and "go green" messages in English and in Spanish. We found that even our least experienced illustrators had fun gluing flower cut-outs on their bags. Shoppers at Kings Soopers grocery store were thrilled to receive them on Earth Day!
Report submitted on 5/11/2010

Sneha Venkatraman

Salem Elementary
Apex, NC USA
 
We decorated 22 bags!
About our project: 3 of my friends and I wanted to do a presentation at the elementary school for our service project. We decided to include this project as part of our presentation. It was a lot of fun and the kids were very creative in decorating!
Report submitted on 5/10/2010

Donna Walker
walkerd@mail.santarosa.k12.fl.us
Rhodes Elementary
Milton, FL USA
 
We decorated 477 bags!
About our project: This was the first year our school participated in the Earth Day bag project. Every class that participated thought it was a great way to link the school and community together and an excellent way to get the children active in helping our environment.
Report submitted on 5/8/2010

Crisha Luttenberger
cluttenberger@eyork.k12.pa.us
Eastern York Elementary
York, PA USA
www.easternyork.com/
We decorated 86 bags!
About our project: I teach K-5 elementary art. I decided for earth day to have my 4th grade students decorate grocery bags for our local Weis Market grocery store. They loved doing this and knowing that their decorated bag was going to return home with a customer.
Report submitted on 5/7/2010

Christina Paul
cpaul@ccsd.edu
Link Elementary World School
New City, NY USA
ccsd.edu/LinkElementary.cfm
We decorated 532 bags!
About our project: Our Story Link Elementary World School 2010 The students of the Link Elementary World School strive to be independent global learners and are always looking for opportunities to help either with their local or global community. During a meeting of Link’s environmental awareness group “The Green Link,” the Earth Day Groceries Project was presented. It was discussed and introduced to the students and families who were excited and jumped onboard immediately. Each student in the school was given a bag to decorate at home with their families. As the bags started returning to school, the excitement of the students continued to grow. The students began to ask to decorate more bags during their free time. By the time all the bags were collected, the students had decorated 532 bags! On Monday of the week of Earth Day, the bags were redistributed to Decicco Food Market and John’s Famous Bagels and Deli in New City, New York and the students’ messages of environment awareness began to spread. This project motivated our students to spread the “Going Green” philosophy by initiating many environmental actions in our community such as recycling, planting, conserving energy and water. We are proud to say that everyday is Earth Day at Link!
Report submitted on 5/5/2010

Naomi Cobb
ncobb@cdspublishing.com
21st Century After-school program
Lincolnton, GA USA
 
We decorated 69 bags!
About our project: The students of the 21st Century After-school program enjoyed decorating the grocery bags for Earth Day, and their messages about saving our planet and earth were awesome! I told them that "change begins with me", and I saw that message on several bags!
Report submitted on 5/3/2010

Pamela Boice
pamelafmb@snet.net
Betances
Hartford, CT USA
 
We decorated 100 bags!
About our project: I am a grade 2 teacher at Betances Elementary in Hartford CT. We decorate the paper grocery bags with information for Earth Day, and pictures on the bags. All the students enjoyed writing and drawing these wise words. I handed the bags out to the grade 2 teachers and two Kindergarten classes. When we were done I brought the bags back to the store to hand out to their customers on earth day.
Report submitted on 5/2/2010

Kirsten Stuber
kirstenstuber@wcps.org
Meadow Lane Elementary School
Goldsboro, NC USA
 
We decorated 500 bags!
About our project: This is a wonderful project! The students decorated bags from the commissary at the Air Force Base that is adjacent to our school. The Air Force base is always willing two work with our students on any project! The commissary passed out the bags to customers on Earth Day, spreading the word about Earth Day and what we can do to help the Earth!
Report submitted on 5/2/2010

Megan Fried
Megan_nicole85@rocketmail.com
Ad Prima Charter School
Philadelphia , PA USA
 
We decorated 200 bags!
About our project: This was our first year participating in the Earth Day Groceries Project. We contacted two local grocery stores, Pathmark and Shoprite, in the neighborhood where our school is located. The students learned all about Earth Day and keeping our planet clean through lessons, activities, literature, and homework extensions leading up to the actual project of decorating the grocery bags. The whole school celebrated Earth Day by listening to books, sharing information they learned, watching a "green" movie, kicking off a school wide recycling initiative and finally decorating the grocery bags with all of the knowledge they acquired. Everyone was very excited and everyone participated including the school nurse, the secretary, and the principal. The There was a winner from each class and a winner selected from the staff bags. Shoprite is choosing to display our bags around the store along with our pictures! Everyone is very excited for our community to see what the exceptional students and staff have created to celebrate Earth Day, not just today, but everyday.
Report submitted on 4/30/2010

Janice Bezzo
jbezzo@wi.rr.com
Nash Elementary
Kenosha, WI USA
nash.kusd.edu
We decorated 591 bags!
About our project: Another fantastic year! Our students and Cub Scouts were very creative and delivered beautiful works of art with meaningful Earth Day messages. Thank you to Pick 'n Save for partnering with us at Nash Elementary!
Report submitted on 4/29/2010