Welcome to the Rainbow Community School Blog!
RCS News and Updates
We are so excited to share with you everything that makes Rainbow such a unique blend of holistic education, academic excellence, social responsibility, and integrated community. Here you can find our reflections on the seven domains, our opinions on mindfulness in schools, our upcoming events, and how we’re revolutionizing education from the inside out. Explore the posts below to get a sense of what being part of the Rainbow community is all about.
A Child’s Message from the Heart
"From the mouth's of babes..." What a POWERFUL speaker. This girl reminds me of some of the young people who have graduated from Rainbow Mountain. ~Renee Owen (Executive Director) PS. The video is slightly out of focus, but totally worth it.
RMCS Preschool Teacher, Jessy Tickle, Is a Recipient of the Terri Lynne Lokoff/Children's TYLENOL® National Child Care Teacher Awards
Congratulations to one of our wonderful preschool teachers, Jessy Tickle, who is one of the top ten recipients that received the Terri Lynne Lokoff/Children's Tylenol National Child Care Teacher Award! This award acknowledges the critical role of child care teachers...
Third Grade Space Mission
Third graders culminate their astronomy unit with a Space Mission! Several classes visited the third grade classroom and entered a space shuttle to take them on their travels through space. Their travels ended with a planet parade by the third graders. Here is a...
Global Peace Project Comes To Rainbow Mountain
The Children's Global Peace Project has been at Rainbow Mountain this week training teachers and students with a peace curriculum. The program focuses on learning about and teaching cultural diversity and learning tools to help find our peaceful center. The ultimate...
First Graders Help Their Community
This week, the First Grade Dolphins had a service learning field trip to MANNA Food Bank to package food for the needy! Way to go, first graders!!
Come to Our Open House
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....
Got Science?
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...
Rainbow Mountain Foundation
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...
Scholastic Book Fair is at Rainbow Mountain
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;...
Second Grade's Cherokee Museum
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...
Rainbow Repackages Gifted Education
Gifted is an uncomfortable term. It seems to imply that some children are born with more gifts than others, and therefore, are more important or more special. The Multiple Intelligence Theory used at Rainbow Mountain recognizes that all children have gifts in...
Thank You, Malaprop's
We would like to say Thank You, Malaprop's for donating so many quality books for our kid's raffle table at our annual Halloween Hoe Down last Saturday. It was quite a success. Malaprop's is voted over and over as the best bookstore in WNC by Mountain Express readers....
Got Elk?
I just spent two days with teachers in the Great Smoky Mountains on an Elk Trek. It was stunning! I can't wait to take a group of Rainbow students to some of the same spots! We saw the head bull with his "harem." We saw males sparring, heard bulls bugling, and watched...
Rainbow Mountain Summit
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...
Halloween Harvest Hoe Down
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...
Our Storyteller
Oral storytelling is a rich tradition in the human race, and an important aspect of the curriculum at Rainbow Mountain. Reading stories from books is valuable, but when a someone tells a story orally something magical happens. They storyteller has no book between her...
3rd Grade Presents Biomes and Shelters of the World
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...
Social Intelligence
Research within schools has shown that the time spent on social curriculum – on team building activities, class meetings, character studies, and the like, which promote social skills—is not time taken away from academics. By training children how to get along with one...
