The Cloud Forest School/Centro Educacion Creativa

If I divide the property into three sections; lower, middle, and upper, I can say that the lower buildings house the youngest children, the middle buildings house the middle aged children and all of the common buildings, offices, kitchen etc. and the upper buildings house the older high school kids.

The lower building:

These two buildings and two playgrounds are for preschool, Kinder, Grade 1 & Grade 2

Inside one of the little kids classrooms.

View from above

Volunteer work is being done by some students from ?? to improve the grounds

Basketball court #1

second building

Sitting area between the two buildings.

Lower playground

Slide down to playground #2

The middle buildings have the garden centre where plants are started before going to the vegetable garden, some offices, the kitchen, the art building and middle grades. There are 5 buildings in this area.

Grades 3 & 4

Office building

One of two gardening buildings

It may be difficult to see but all of the colourful edging is plastic pop bottles which have been painted and filled with water and are being used as edging in all of the gardens. You might also notice that all of the plants are being started in small cartons. These are all old milk cartons that have been cut in half. Milk cartons here are rectangular.

 Kitchen where we all head to pick up our snack & lunch and below is the eating area in behind the kitchen.

There are two middle level classrooms and bathrooms in this building, along with the hummingbird garden:

The Art building is in behind this one. I didn't get a picture of it but spent  lot of time in it.

Angels alley leads to the vegetable garden but also a very nice long path around the property which eventually comes out at the soccer field and upper level classrooms.

 Hierba Buena translates to good herbs. Mala Hierba is a weed :)

Again an incredible use of old tires! They are filled with stone to create a path and also used as a retaining wall!

Middle level classrooms for grades 5, 6 & 7

The path(s) between these areas gives a welcome break in the day.

Doug playing soccer

Tree house

Basketball court # 2

The forest (bosque) is a great learning opportunity for the students.

Higher up the mountains are the classrooms for the high school children (Grades 8-12). They are closed up for the summer program but this is where Douglas' classes will be in August. There are 5 buildings up here.

One for Matematicas, Ciencia, Espanol, Ingles & Estudios Sociales.

 And this will be his view...

At the very top of the mountain is a Kiosk. My initial understanding of secondary vegetation was incorrect. I was told that at the top of them mountain where this kiosk is there is primary vegetation. All of the other vegetation is secondary as it is new vegetation since the erruption of the volcano.




I will try to identify the buildings as I learn them and I have yet to add the pictures of the vegetable garden or the Kiosk as I haven't made it back up that way again. I will add more later this week.