Volunteers could be seen after school hauling rocks and plants into the humid atmosphere of the room as Kia Boone worked on hanging clear plastic behind the waterfall. Younger students are benefiting from the project as well. The older students read their original stories and poems about the rain forest to the younger students. It looks real with all of the trees and animals. Brandon Ratliff likes fish, so his contribution was hundreds of tropical fish that he crafted from brilliant colored paper by hand.
Murals also line the vine-covered walls of the classroom.
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