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's Blood Drive
Parents at Rainbow Mountain believe in modeling service to the community for their children. Last week, the American Red Cross Bloodmobile visited the campus so that several dozen parents could donate blood for the busy holiday travel season.
Enjoying Our Mountain Heritage
As part of their Appalachian thematic unit, Rainbow Mountain's third and fourth grade students recently enjoyed Fall Festival 2009 at the Arthur Morgan School in Burnsville. Seventh, eighth and ninth graders from Arthur Morgan School planned and coordinated all...
As Lewis and Clark Did
As part of their Lewis and Clark thematic unit, fifth and sixth-grade students at Rainbow Mountain recently enjoyed a three-day camping trip at Pilot Mountain State Park, near Greensboro. After pitching tents, their days were packed with exploratory hikes,...
Second Graders Explore Web of Life
RMCS second graders spent their third week of school exploring community on the ecological level by discussing the inter-relationships (or web of life) between all living and non-living things in the forest. In an effort to bridge the “web of life†concept...
Rainbow Third Graders Kick Off School Year
Continuing a long-practiced school tradition, RMCS third graders spent a lot of time thinking about, brainstorming and discussing their classroom rules during the first few weeks of the school year. Teacher Sheila Mraz introduced her students to spelling site...
Faculty Training
To prepare for its 33rd academic year, numerous Rainbow Mountain faculty members attended the following workshops during their 2009 summer break: Orton Gillingham Reading Techniques; The Responsive Classroom; Waldorf Intensives; The Life of the Inner Child; and...
How Rainbow Prepares Our Children for High School and Experiences Beyond Rainbow
As parents we assume - by default - the role of teacher, whether we're predisposed to it or not. And most of us might agree that if we were only able to pass on one life-lesson to our children, just one, that it might very well be to teach them to think for...
Preschool Program Awarded Prestigious Five-Star Rating!
Imagine having over thirty preschoolers under your care each and every day. Being responsible for not only each of their mental, emotional, moral/social, physical and spiritual needs; but also the far more rudimentary ones.Sixty small hands that must be washed and...
Spirituality in the Classroom
Spirituality in the Classroom In this day and age, it is sometimes easy to find ourselves tip-toeing around the subject of spirituality, particularly when it relates to the classroom. After all, we reside in a country founded by many who fled religious persecution,...
What's new for the 2008-2009 School Year?
IN ADMISSIONS 42 New students to embrace, to guide, and to learn with: Carole Smith and our office assistant, Mary Sigler, work year-round to promote the school through marketing and admissions. Along with Margaret Gerleve, the personal service our administrative...
Rainbow Rafters Take the Plunge for Local Water Quality
Rainbow Mountain Children's School and Omega Program entered its Rainbow Raft in the annual Rockin' River Fest on Saturday, August 11, 2007. The daylong river festival and raft race was co-sponsored by Buncombe County Parks and Recreation and 96.5 WOXL Radio. Festival...
Rainbow Mountain School grows up, hires an outsider as director
by Cecil Bothwell in the Mountain Xpress, Vol. 13 / Issue 42 on 05/16/2007 Rainbow Mountain Childrens School in West Asheville has brought in its first outsider to run a school that put experiential, holistic learning on the Western North Carolina map 30 years ago....
Rainbow Mountain Quilt Project Celebrates the Artist in Every Child
Seven Mixed-Media Quilts Create a Community Rainbow One rainy September morning, Rainbow Mountain mom and fiber artist Jacqui Fehl woke up with a “big idea.†One that took last year’s Rainbow quilt project and multiplied it by seven. “I wanted this year’s...
