Come visit our Five-Star Preschool and Kindergarten this Monday, 30 January from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
Meet our loving, dynamic teachers. Learn about our engaging, holistic curriculum. Tour our beautiful classrooms.
RSVP are appreciated but not required: 258-9264, ext. 21
Future Rainbow Mountain preschool and kindergarten Open House dates are Tuesday 28 February and 25 April. Come visit all the grades at our school wide Open House 21 March.
One of the most exciting events of the year….The Rainbow Mountain Science Fair…is fast approaching on February 10. Is your child working on collecting their data yet? For some inspiration, here is a video demonstrating how even the simplest science fair project often has intriguing and unexpected results. You won’t want to eat another non-organic sweet potato after watching it!
By the way, Rainbow Mountain students score exceptionally high (averaging 80th – 90th percentile compared nationally) on standardized science tests. (Something we don’t usually publish, because we aren’t real into standardized tests.) Attend the Science Fair on February 10, and be prepared to learn something new from our amazing students.
Each ribbon has a name of a donor.
Each one of us in this private school community are committed to making it a better place for our children and students. As parents we want to send our kids to a school that fits with our family values, our beliefs in the goodness of the human race, a school that nurtures them, is an emotionally safe place and that teaches them a life long love of learning.
We found it here, at Rainbow Mountain Children’s School. We are committed. We pay the tuition. We volunteer our time. We participate in fund raisers. We support our child’s teacher.
However there is more we can do. We can, each one of us, make a financial contribution to the Rainbow Mountain Foundation. Why, on top of everything else we do? The Rainbow Mountain Foundation helps all of us in return. The Foundation provides the funds necessary to nurture discovery through grants for teachers to purchase special equipment and teaching supplements. They provide the funds that some of our community members need to be able to attend Rainbow. And this year they will raise the funds to expand our facilities. They are making Rainbow a better place for the entire community.
Each ribbon you see on the deck is a thank you to a family for making that commitment to strengthen the Rainbow Mountain community by contributing to the Rainbow Mountain Foundation this school year. The campaign is still young, but we hope all the strings will be full of ribbons — creating a beautiful work of art–as a symbol of how each of you, individually, help create beauty as a whole.
We invite you to help strengthen our educational community by giving to the Foundation! It is our hope that every RMCS family will make an intentional commitment to our fundraising campaign for the benefit of all. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.
The Scholastic Book Fair is now underway at Rainbow Mountain Children’s School. There is a great selection of gift books, preschool books, teen books, fiction and nonfiction and even some cookbooks. I think the hottest seller so far is the new “Diary of a Whimpy Kid; Cabin Fever”. Everybody loves it and if you haven’t yet read any of the Whimpy Kid Diaries you can purchase all of them at our book fair.
The book fair continues this afternoon, 2:30 to 4:30 and tomorrow, Wednesday 7 December 8:00 to 9:30 and 1:00 to 4:00. Come check it out.
You can also shop online at Scholastic’s site where the selection is even greater. Shop during our fair and all sales earn books for our school.
Recently I was able to attend the opening of a new museum. Without having to leave the Rainbow Mountain campus I was able to tour a top notch Cherokee Museum built, curated and presented by the second grade Cheetahs. As an end to their thematic unit on the Cherokee People the Cheetahs gathered all their Cherokee projects, which were many, to display in their museum that took over their classroom and the school’s media lab.
I saw handmade baskets, a constructed Cherokee Village using, twigs, moss, bark and detailed with clay, handmade pottery bowls which were fired in the earth in our outdoor classroom, flags to correspond to each students personal Cherokee story, and other works of art. On the walls in the first room hung large posters. Each poster made by a different student on a Cherokee topic. Topics included medicine and herbs, weapons, games and toys, the Seven Clans, history of the Cherokee, the Cherokee language, farming and food, and art and spirit. Students, dressed in their Cherokee vest, headdresses and anklets, which they made, stood next to their posters talking to museum visitors about their topic and showing us an artifact, which they also made, that went with their poster.
Following my tour through the Cherokee Museum my group was asked to please go into the second room and have a seat on the blankets. What followed was a Cherokee ceremony preformed and designed by the Cheetahs thanking the four directions and their performance of the Hawk Dance.
I would recommend a visit but sadly the museum has now been turned into a classroom where second graders are starting a new thematic unit. I honestly can’t wait to see what they come up with at the end of this one.
Once again, good job Cheetahs!
