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.
Rainbow Alumni Sweep High School Awards!
News Flash: There are 7 high school seniors graduating who previously attended Rainbow Mountain: 6 of them attended RMCS through 8th grade and one through 7th grade. Five of them were at Asheville High School High or SILSA (the all-honors alternative school at...
Renee Owen Chosen for Educators in Excellence Adventure
Rainbow Mountain Children's School’s executive director, Renee Owen, has been chosen as one of ten “Educators of Excellence” in North Carolina to travel to Ecuador this summer with the Museum of Natural Science. The Educators of Excellence Institute programs are...
A Whole Lot of Art Going Round
Pop Ferguson has been playing the blues since he was a kid and this week he is sharing his passion with Rainbow fifth and sixth graders. LEAF in Schools and Streets partners with LEAF performers to bring some of their talents to schools all over the Asheville area....
Medieval Studies Unit
The fifth and sixth grade class went medieval. After studying the history and culture of medieval Europe, the students turned their classroom into a medieval castle. Each student had a role to fill and tell about. There was the royal family, the knights, artisans, a...
Preschool's India Bazaar
Exotic spices filled the air along with the calls of street merchants. The bustling crowd of proud and curious parents were clamoring about. Was I really in the Rainbow playground or had I found myself transported into the middle of an Indian street bazaar? All around...
Rainbow Mountain Children’s School Going Screen-Free April 30-May 6!
Millions Will Participate in the Annual Turnoff week and 139 kids of those millions will be from Rainbow Mountain. We think it's always time to PLAY! So we choose as our team name; PLAY - Positive, Learning, Active, Youth. Rainbow Mountain Children’s School will join...
Rainbow Mountain Middle School Students Clean-Up State Street!
The seventh and eighth grade students went down to the corner of State Street and Amboy Road to clean up the river. They spent the day collecting trash from the side of the road and in the stream. Amongst the debris, they found a large piece of a dishwasher, about 20...
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...
