Author Archives: The Greenhouse Cameroon

“No matter where you go in life, always unpack your bags and plant your trees…maybe you won’t be there to eat the fruit from those tress, but someone else will.”~Ruth Van Reken, quoting her father Charles In August 2021, we planted a tree to provide some shade on the playground. We chose an Inga treeContinue reading “Plant a Tree”

One of the things that most characterizes International Schools is mobility. It is said that Third Culture Kids (kids who are growing up in a country that is not their parent’s passport country) say more goodbyes in their first 18 years of life than their monocultural peers do in a lifetime. Last year in ourContinue reading “Saying Goodbye”

The road to The Greenhouse has been collecting a lot of trash recently. So, we asked the parents, staff, and students to spend some time after school collecting trash. It’s rainy season, so they ended up doing a wet, muddy job! In less than 1 hour, they collected a truck-full of trash! Great job! ThanksContinue reading “Neighborhood Clean-up”

Group Pictures Preschool Pre-K Kindergarten & 1st Grade 2nd & 3rd Grades 5th and 6th Grades Middle School – a first for JLS! The whole crew! August JLS Staff – Back row l to r: Mrs. Shinar, Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Carmean, Mrs. Milligan, Miss Dillenbeck Front row l to r: Miss Falkenholt, Miss Miller &Continue reading “August JLS 2023”

We love serving the mission community here in Yaoundé but for that to happen we need the people to work here! We have been blessed with a full staff this year and have been able to accomplish so many different projects that normally fall to the side because of a smaller staff. The biggest needsContinue reading “Needs for Next year!”

Since we are located in a bilingual country, it is important that our students get some exposure to French in a classroom setting so they are prepared when they experience it in their lives outside of school. The students all get French classes twice a week a for at least half an hour. There areContinue reading “French”

During the last school year, we decided that the rooms we used for our specials and preschool were just too small to be useful. For preschool–the teacher had to always clean things up before getting the next activity ready. Then whenever someone had to use the bathroom, help had to be called or the kidsContinue reading “New Preschool Room”