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.
Who Else Wants to Parent Better?
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...
Peace Town; a Peaceful Place
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...
School-wide Student Council Meets
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...
The Moss Garden in the West Asheville Garden Stroll
(Asheville, NC) - On September 10, 2011, the Moss Garden at Rainbow Mountain Children’s School will be a part of the 2011 West Asheville Garden Stroll. The Moss Garden was co-designed by the Third Grade this spring in collaboration with Annie Martin of Mountain Moss...
Andy Goldsworthy Inspires Preschool
(This post was blatantly taken directly from the preschool newsletter) Your children have been very enthusiastic about our study of Andy Goldsworthy. We started our exploration of environmental art by examining the textures, shapes and patterns evident in the natural...
Asheville's Artist for a Global Village
Rainbow Mountain is proud to be a sponsor for Sunday night’s Asheville’s Artist for a Global Village at the Orange Peel Come join “Everything Counts” and Asheville Artists as we rock and funk out, and raise money to send Rainbow’s own Andi Morrell and her...
Thank You Organic Mechanic
Our preschoolers love the tricycles. They ride them everyday; morning, noon, and after school. They have an oval loop they ride, chalk arrows pointing which way to go. Watching them will make you dizzy. I often have to walk by very quickly before the train of...
2011 8th Grade Graduation Speeches
This June we had five graduating eighth graders. Each graduate is required to give a speech at graduation. Each graduate decides their theme, writes drafts and revisions and practices until 6:30 that night, when dressed in an outfit that may not have been of their...
Rainbow Mountain Historic Building Feature in Asheville Citizen Times
Hey Asheville Citizens Time just published an article about our historic building. Interesting stuff.
Roughhousing – a developmental necessity
Remember tumbling around on the floor with your dad or having a pillow fight with your cousins? Fun, right? Well, it's also developmentally essential, especially for boys. To read all the fascinating reasons why you WANT your son to roughhouse, click on the following...
Mossin' Around at Rainbow
(Asheville, NC) - In May, a moss garden will be installed at Rainbow Mountain Children’s School in West Asheville. The garden is donated by Dulcita Love who met Annie Martin of Mountain Moss Enterprises at a Women in Business networking event hosted by VERVE magazine...
Preschool Pajama Party for Japan
On a recent Friday evening Rainbow Mountain preschoolers headed back into their classrooms in their pajamas. It wasn't detention it was a preschool “pajama party” to raise money and collect new pajamas for children in Japan whose lives have been affected by the March...
World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements
Mark your calendars for May 4th! One of the parents in the Rainbow Mountain community is hosting the Asheville Premier Screening of “World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements”, the new film by Chris Farina which depicts the transformation that happens as a class of...
"It’s about Spirit"
There were over 20 people from Rainbow Mountain Children's School at the Sir Ken Robinson lecture last night, and we were all inspired -- actually, validated, is a better word for it. Validated to know that the style of education we have been doing for 34 years at...
Vision: The Future of Education
Are you passionate about education? Would you like to see the whole educational paradigm changed in America? Despite the seriousness of this topic, do you love to laugh? Then I highly recommend you take advantage of a great opportunity: At 6pm this...
The Leperchaun Traps
Recently the second graders had an interesting project; Dear 2nd grade Frogs, It is very difficult to catch a tricky leprechaun, but you and your family can have a great deal of fun trying! Who knows, maybe you’ll get lucky. The first thing you need to do is build a...
Middle School Students Try on a Soldier's Life
Many Rainbow parents stopped and commented on the unusual sight on campus Friday. What they saw was the outdoor classroom turned into a military parade ground as Major Ronald Capes’ Asheville High School’s ROTC class came to demonstrate drills, lead team building...
IQ tests for Preschoolers???
The following link is a well-written blog that explains how we build self-esteem at Rainbow Mountain. Although the author doesn't refer to Positive Discipline or The Responsive Classroom (two of the classroom management/behavior models we draw from at Rainbow), his...
