Our 5th grade Honeybees have been stretching their musical muscles. They worked with the band Elephant Revival learning about singing and songwriting.
Here are our songwriter/singer 5th graders at LEAF in action:
5th Grade Honeybees at LEAF with Elephant Revival
They did a great job with their performance and had a meaningful experience with the sweet spirits of Elephant Revival.
Here’s another look at all the enlightened musicians:
Violins, voices, guitars, and more all amounts to an incredible musical experience.
Elephant Revival had such a blast, they shared an endearing photo on their Facebook page:
Elephant Revival poses with the 5th grade students while they practice.
If you use Facebook, feel free to head on over to share your child’s experience with them while they worked with Elephant Revival.
Something we’re particularly proud of: During the band’s afternoon performance at LEAF, they made several positive references to their experience with the kids and with the school, specifically wishing more schools could be like Rainbow.
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Rainbow Community School recently was recognized for its efforts at environmental sustainability and the innovative ways in which students and staff aim to learn about and take care of our planet.
The NC Green Schools Committee of the Reading, Riding, Retrofit non-profit organization recently recognized Rainbow as a Green School of Excellence. We are the first to receive such an award.
Rainbow was judged according to five categories: Culture/Community, Curriculum Integration, Healthy Schools, Sustainability and Innovation. We scored very high, which allowed us to become the first NC school to achieve the NC Green School of Excellence Award. The other two categories are NC Green School of Quality and NC Green School of Promise.
On May 19th, judges from NC Green Schools will be coming to campus to have a celebration with us at 10 am. Parents are invited to attend.
On behalf of Rainbow, there is a press release on the Mountain Express website, found here:
Jeffrey Sachs, one of Time’s “Most Influential People,” is the world’s most important economist. He works for the UN and countries around the world to promote sustainability, and he is on a life-long mission to wipe out poverty. Dr. Sachs is the originator of the Happiness Index — the concept that we should be quantifying a nation’s success on the measure of their happiness rather than their GNP. I was fortunate to meet Jeffrey Sachs when I was at Harvard this summer for the Future of Learning program, and was so inspired that I am going to be taking on online course with him beginning in a few weeks called the Age of Sustainable Development. Columbia University is offering the course free of charge, and it is open to anyone who desires a deep holistic understanding of how to move into the future sustainably. To resister for the course, go to https://www.coursera.org/course/susdev. If you are a teacher, Dr. Sachs and Columbia’s Earth Institute are allowing teachers to use the course materials to incorporate into their own instruction without copyright infringement. They are on a mission to spread the message. ~Renee Owen, Rainbow Community School
Our campaign was a HUGE success! We are just shy of our $200,000 goal to acquire the church property next to the school. Thank you to everyone who came to the event. There was music, food, fun, and games.
Our fundraiser yesterday raised $24,000, bringing us to $168,000 towards our $200,000 goal. For all who joined us, we are incredibly happy you came!
We want to extend a special thank you to our musicians, Greg Olson, Bobby Miller & the Virginia Daredevils, Adama Dembele & Friends for all of your musical entertainment. We had so many volunteers who contributed their many hours and talents to the event and we express our deepest gratitude. FUEL Food Truck and Catering, GQC Lebanese Street Food, Wicked Weed Brewing, & Bill Drew provided some delicious food and drink – it was all a success.
Thank you also to our Board of Directors, faculty, & staff – without everyone’s help, this whole event might not have been possible. The future of Rainbow is right now and we’re making it happen!
A special thank you to all the members of the Asheville Community who helped make this day possible.
Today was a special day at Rainbow Community School.
We had a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for our new playground!
The Chamber of Commerce came to the school to help us host the event and we gathered as a community to celebrate our new playground.
It’s been a long while in the making: all last year, our students found places to play everywhere except the current playground!
Our hero, Max, is really the one who helped make our vision a reality and a special thank you to him for being the go-to person for all things “playground.”
Enjoy an awesome picture slideshow of our ceremony today!
