Rainbow Mountain Children's School

Third Grade Space Mission

sandra — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:41:29 +0000

Third graders culminate their astronomy unit with a Space Mission! Several classes visited the third grade classroom and entered a space shuttle to take them on their travels through space. Their travels ended with a planet parade by the third graders. Here is a video that shares part of the Kindergartners journey! RMCS Third Grade Space Mission Video

Global Peace Project Comes To Rainbow Mountain

sandra — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:52:19 +0000

The Children’s Global Peace Project has been at Rainbow Mountain this week training teachers and students with a peace curriculum. The program focuses on learning about and teaching cultural diversity and learning tools to help find our peaceful center. The ultimate goal of the program is to gain understanding of three peace skills: assessing peace within, being peaceful toward others, and living together peacefully. Today, they worked with several classes guiding them through a peaceful mediation process to help students strengthen their peaceful communication skills. Many thanks to the Global Peace Project for all the great work they are doing in the world!

First Graders Help Their Community

sandra — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:27:41 +0000

This week, the First Grade Dolphins had a service learning field trip to MANNA Food Bank to package food for the needy! Way to go,

first graders!!

Come to Our Open House

Mary Earle-Sigler — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:21:06 +0000

Come visit our Five-Star Preschool and Kindergarten this Monday, 30 January from 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm.

Meet our loving, dynamic teachers. Learn about our engaging, holistic curriculum. Tour our beautiful classrooms.

RSVP are appreciated but not required: 258-9264, ext. 21

Future Rainbow Mountain preschool and kindergarten Open House dates are Tuesday 28 February and 25 April. Come visit all the grades at our school wide Open House 21 March.

Got Science?

Renee Owen — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:12:10 +0000

One of the most exciting events of the year….The Rainbow Mountain Science Fair…is fast approaching on February 10. Is your child working on collecting their data yet? For some inspiration, here is a video demonstrating how even the simplest science fair project often has intriguing and unexpected results. You won’t want to eat another non-organic sweet potato after watching it!

By the way, Rainbow Mountain students score exceptionally high (averaging 80th – 90th percentile compared nationally) on standardized science tests. (Something we don’t usually publish, because we aren’t real into standardized tests.) Attend the Science Fair on February 10, and be prepared to learn something new from our amazing students.

Rainbow Mountain Foundation

Mary Earle-Sigler — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:36:21 +0000

Each ribbon has a name of a donor.

Each one of us in this private school community are committed to making it a better place for our children and students. As parents we want to send our kids to a school that fits with our family values, our beliefs in the goodness of the human race, a school that nurtures them, is an emotionally safe place and that teaches them a life long love of learning.

We found it here, at Rainbow Mountain Children’s School. We are committed. We pay the tuition. We volunteer our time. We participate in fund raisers. We support our child’s teacher.

However there is more we can do. We can, each one of us, make a financial contribution to the Rainbow Mountain Foundation. Why, on top of everything else we do? The Rainbow Mountain Foundation helps all of us in return. The Foundation provides the funds necessary to nurture discovery through grants for teachers to purchase special equipment and teaching supplements. They provide the funds that some of our community members need to be able to attend Rainbow. And this year they will raise the funds to expand our facilities. They are making Rainbow a better place for the entire community.

Each ribbon you see on the deck is a thank you to a family for making that commitment to strengthen the Rainbow Mountain community by contributing to the Rainbow Mountain Foundation this school year. The campaign is still young, but we hope all the strings will be full of ribbons — creating a beautiful work of art–as a symbol of how each of you, individually, help create beauty as a whole.

We invite you to help strengthen our educational community by giving to the Foundation! It is our hope that every RMCS family will make an intentional commitment to our fundraising campaign for the benefit of all. Your generosity is greatly appreciated.

Scholastic Book Fair is at Rainbow Mountain

Mary Earle-Sigler — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:45:05 +0000

The Scholastic Book Fair is now underway at Rainbow Mountain Children’s School. There is a great selection of gift books, preschool books, teen books, fiction and nonfiction and even some cookbooks. I think the hottest seller so far is the new “Diary of a Whimpy Kid; Cabin Fever”. Everybody loves it and if you haven’t yet read any of the Whimpy Kid Diaries you can purchase all of them at our book fair.

The book fair continues this afternoon, 2:30 to 4:30 and tomorrow, Wednesday 7 December 8:00 to 9:30 and 1:00 to 4:00. Come check it out.

You can also shop online at Scholastic’s site where the selection is even greater. Shop during our fair and all sales earn books for our school.

Second Grade’s Cherokee Museum

Mary Earle-Sigler — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:03:17 +0000

Recently I was able to attend the opening of a new museum. Without having to leave the Rainbow Mountain campus I was able to tour a top notch Cherokee Museum built, curated and presented by the second grade Cheetahs. As an end to their thematic unit on the Cherokee People the Cheetahs gathered all their Cherokee projects, which were many, to display in their museum that took over their classroom and the school’s media lab.

I saw handmade baskets, a constructed Cherokee Village using, twigs, moss, bark and detailed with clay, handmade pottery bowls which were fired in the earth in our outdoor classroom, flags to correspond to each students personal Cherokee story, and other works of art. On the walls in the first room hung large posters. Each poster made by a different student on a Cherokee topic. Topics included medicine and herbs, weapons, games and toys, the Seven Clans, history of the Cherokee, the Cherokee language, farming and food, and art and spirit. Students, dressed in their Cherokee vest, headdresses and anklets, which they made, stood next to their posters talking to museum visitors about their topic and showing us an artifact, which they also made, that went with their poster.

Following my tour through the Cherokee Museum my group was asked to please go into the second room and have a seat on the blankets. What followed was a Cherokee ceremony preformed and designed by the Cheetahs thanking the four directions and their performance of the Hawk Dance.

I would recommend a visit but sadly the museum has now been turned into a classroom where second graders are starting a new thematic unit. I honestly can’t wait to see what they come up with at the end of this one.

Once again, good job Cheetahs!

Rainbow Repackages Gifted Education

Renee Owen — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:05:51 +0000

Gifted is an uncomfortable term. It seems to imply that some children are born with more gifts than others, and therefore, are more important or more special. The Multiple Intelligence Theory used at Rainbow Mountain recognizes that all children have gifts in various areas. One child may have musical gifts, while being kinesthetically challenged, for example. A child who may not consider them self to be academically gifted, per se, shines because they are talented in some other area, such as interpersonal skills, and at Rainbow, she will feel special for who she is. Our school’s mission is for all children to have the opportunity to discover and develop their personal gifts and talents.

Read the entire new The Heart of the Matter here.

Thank You, Malaprop’s

Mary Earle-Sigler — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:38:50 +0000

We would like to say Thank You, Malaprop’s for donating so many quality books for our kid’s raffle table at our annual Halloween Hoe Down last Saturday. It was quite a success.

Malaprop’s is voted over and over as the best bookstore in WNC by Mountain Express readers. You can see for yourself by visiting Malaprop’s at 55 Haywood Street (Downtown) or on the web.