by Webmaster | Nov 29, 2013 | News
Our Third Grade Otters are making a difference!
They held a food drive so that families in the area would have food during the Thanksgiving holiday.
What a food drive it was!
The entire school participated and brought in so much food, here’s what West, our 3rd grade teacher reported:
The pantry at children first went from being almost from almost entirely empty to so full that we had to stop unloading boxes!
Indeed! Rainbow Community School and the 3rd graders delivered enough food to feed over 200 children.
Thank you to the Rainbow Community for helping us with this project. We were moved when we found out that 1 in 2 children in public school in the city of Asheville do not have enough to eat. Rainbow Community School is definitely committed to helping make a difference right here in our Asheville community.
by Renee Owen | May 15, 2012 | News
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. Children working directly with artist leads to inspiration and change in a child’s life. It can spark a passion that will last a lifetime.
This same reason is also why every year Rainbow Mountain also brings both performing and visual artist into the school to work with all the children. The month of May has the arts in full swing here and on this Friday, May 18th, we will hold an all day celebration of the arts with our Imagine! event. On this day the classes and parents will tour the visual art galleries set up around campus and then walk down to Calvary Baptist Church to watch the performances.
Not only has the fifth and sixth grade class been learning to play the blues but they have also taken the bus downtown to photograph the city while working with photographer, Mehera Kleiner. Other classes are also having having fun. The third grade class is up to their elbows in newspaper strips as they make bird mask with ornithology enthusiast, Alan Ward. In fact they’re up to their elbows in all things bird. They’ve needle felted little birds, they’ve sculpted birds, and of course they’ve studied birds.
Kindergarten is learning Brazilian samba dance. First grade studied photography and are now in the middle of African dance, Second, Fourth and the Omega program are all rehearsing for their plays. Walking by the classrooms I overheard some strange dialog until I remembered it’s play practice. Whew! I’m hoping to get away from the front desk Friday to see all the acts. It promises to be entertaining.
by Renee Owen | Nov 9, 2009 | News
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 the events. Over the course of three hours on a gorgeous fall day, each Rainbow child had the opportunity to press cider, dig for potatoes, take a hay ride, paint a mural, taste goat cheeses, and try their hand at blacksmithing; learning first hand how people lived in our beautiful part of the world.
by Webmaster | Sep 13, 2009 | News
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 words, which they then used to correct spelling mistakes in their homework. Every day found the third graders enthusiastically writing in the journals after Silent Reading Time and learning new songs, greetings, centering tools and observation games. The students also got to draw their faces in centimeters and practice their “I can do it!” motto with a multi-level math problem. The third graders wrapped up their second week of school with a fun and exciting nature awareness field trip to Bent Creek with Rainbow’s fourth grade teachers and students.
