by Renee Owen | Oct 27, 2011 | News
The Summit is a gathering of Rainbow Mountain parents and children and Asheville community members to co-create the future of Rainbow Mountain. The Summit is Phase I of a journey to define our center and to design future directions for RMCS. This is a unique opportunity for you to share your invaluable wisdom and dreams for the school, our children, education and the world. Get info here
Where
Calvary Baptist Church
Fellowship Hall
531 Haywood Road
Asheville, NC 28806
When
November 16, 1-4 PM
by Renee Owen | Oct 24, 2011 | News
Join us this Saturday, 29 October on the school grounds from 12 to 3:30 for our annual Halloween Harvest Hoe Down.
There will be live music, a magic show, bouncy houses, cake walk, a haunted house, activities, a kid’s raffle food and more. Tickets for food and activities will be on sale for a dollar each or 12 for $10.
This is a great community event. All are welcome.
by Renee Owen | Oct 4, 2011 | News
Exploration; it holds excitement and adventure even when done from a third grade classroom. The 3rd grade Eagles recently set off for a global trek. First they studied their maps, longitude and latitude, landforms and continents. Then they packed their sunglasses and toothbrushes and set off to study all the various biomes and the differences between them. They compared human structures, animals, plants and climates within the biomes. After all the data and craft supplies were gathered the Eagles formed small expedition teams and constructed models of the Sahara Desert, the North American grasslands, the Amazon Rainforest, the Ocean (I think it was the Pacific) and the Arctic. They placed them on the flat earth (their classroom carpet) in the correct locations, added an equator and invited the rest of the school to travel the world in 15 minutes. Here are the highlights:
by Renee Owen | Sep 23, 2011 | News
Are you ready to feel more joy, peace, and confidence in parenting? Do you want to find new solutions to old problems? Do you want to learn how parenting can be easier?
You’re invited to join Michele Bryan, Positive Discipline Facilitator and parenting consultant, for a Positive Parenting introductory meeting Monday, 26 September from 6:30pm to 8:00pm at Rainbow Mountain Children’s School.
Positive Discipline is a respectful, non-punitive approach to parenting. It teaches parents how to balance kindness and firmness while encouraging children to become more responsible, achieve self discipline and problem solving skills. Ultimately, you will create an atmosphere of joy, cooperation and mutual respect.
Michele Bryan is a former Rainbow Mountain preschool teacher and was an active parent in the Rainbow community for ten years. She was trained in Positive Discipline as a teacher and for the past ten years has supported families with her Positive Discipline classes at multiple Asheville schools.
Free childcare is available. Please call Michele at 280-4722 to reserve a space and childcare if needed.
Classes begin October 3rd.
by Renee Owen | Sep 21, 2011 | News
Rainbow’s second grade Cheetahs, as part of their thematic unit on community, have been busy designing what they envision as a peaceful town to live in.
After learning about communities they discussed and decided what a peaceful town would look like. Then they partnered up, and with much imagination, compromising and possibly negotiation, drafted their ideas into a large map. Soon after the plans were approved and all permits attained they started construction, building their Peace Towns with cardboard boxes, paper and paint. They then added people and plants and all kinds of extras.
“The project was completely student driven,” says Sheila Mraz, the second grade teacher. Each building needed to be an example of peace. One Peace Town had a grocery store that gave food away and a farm which showed a family having dinner because there is peace in a family. Another town had a non-religious school where no one’s holidays would be more important than anyone else’s.
Today, in honor of International Peace Day, Rainbow’s second grade invited the other classes to come tour their Peace Towns. It was well received and even a fifth grader was overheard to say he would like to make his own Peace Town. Following our second grade Cheetahs, we can all make our town, a more peaceful town.
by Renee Owen | Sep 20, 2011 | News
Today Rainbow Mountain held it’s first Student Council meeting of the year. Two students from each class, preschool through sixth grade, and three students from Omega, seventh and eighth grade, will meet monthly to discuss and generate ideas on school and community issues. Today they talked about theme days for Spirit Week, naming our campus buildings and ideas for future Student Council meetings. Student Council, a past Rainbow tradition, was reinstated by Rainbow faculty who wanted to involve the students in school decision making. Welcome to community leadership, kids.
