Welcome to Rainbow Mountain
Children's School and Omega Program
Rainbow Mountain Children's School and Omega Program (RMCS)
is a private, independent school serving 40 preschoolers and
up to
100 students from kindergarten through eighth grade in Asheville, North Carolina. For more than 30 years, we have been a national leader in alternative, holistic and contemplative education.
Our curriculum is based on the best thinking in current educational research and offers:
- Holistic approach to education
- Multi-age learning environments
- Emphasis on creativity and self expression
- Exposure to world cultures and traditions
- Loving and emotionally-safe environment
- Positive, respectful discipline methods
- Low student/teacher ratio
We strive to support the development of the whole child in five domains: mental, emotional, moral/social, physical and spiritual. We accomplish this task, in part, using the Multiple Intelligences approach pioneered by Harvard's Howard Gardner. Students are invited to engage in subjects using a variety of intelligences including linguistic, musical, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic and interpersonal. We encourage self-directed learning through the development of essential learning skills and behaviors.
The Rainbow Mountain Omega Challenge
On Tuesday, May 6th, the fifth through eight grade students of Rainbow Mountain Children's School in Asheville travel to Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain to launch a 'world water program' through Earthvoyage. Earthvoyage is a Carolina-based non-profit associated with the Buckminster Fuller Institute and employs a gym-sized 'dymaxion' map to provide a panoramic view of global water issues. Along with their parents, the Rainbow Mountain students will participate in activities and games upon the map that will raise both awareness of the problems as well as the funds to help solve them. "The students' goal," says William Harwood, one of Rainbow Mountain's middle school teachers, "is to raise a thousand dollars for us to play to give away to worthy water projects." To achieve their goal, a number of the Rainbow students have signed up for a five mile run in Black Mountain on Saturday, May 3rd and are seeking sponsorship for their efforts.
Support our Omega Program's race to provide safe drinking water to some of the 1.2 billion people in need. Find out how just $30 can provide one person with a lifetime supply of clean drinking water.
Take the challenge!
We hope you were able to celebrate the 2008 RMCS Spring Carnival
If you missed it, please take some time to view this video clip from Steve White, (Bronwyn and Elijah's Dad) he provided the video coverage for the 2008 Carnival. His website is: www.stevewhite.tv
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