STUDENT GALLERY

Check below to see examples of
Telluride Mountain School student work.

Student Gallery . Lower School
Culture Artworks
Spanish Class Country Cookie-Making
Phantom of the Tollbooth Play
Students Bolster Books Budgets With Read-A-Thon

Culture Artworks
With the goal of learning about different cultures around the world, each student in the 1st and 2nd grade class created his/her very own culture. Students were tasked with conceiving geographical locations, indigenous food and drink, toys and games, rites of passage, holidays, living quarters, clothing, currency, music, dance and flags.

Spanish Class Country Cookie-Making
3rd and 4th grade Spanish students took to the kitchen last winter for the conclusion of a South American countries study with the Galletas de Paises, or first annual Cookie Country Project. Following research and visual and oral presentation of the selected country, students baked and decorated giant cookies to represent their country's geography. These visual displays didn't last long!

Phantom of the Tollbooth Play
The 3rd and 4th grade Humanities class completed its reading and study of the classic children's book, Phantom of the Tollbooth, by Norton Juster with a theatrical presentation for the Mountain School community. Students playfully reenacted the modern-day fairy tale in which a bored boy named Milo drives through a magic tollbooth into the warring kingdoms of Dictionopolis and Digitipolis. Full of wordplay and insight into the human condition, the book proved great material for the clever 9 and 10 year-old students who garnered laughs from the audience as they "jumped" to Conclusions, traveled to the silence-filled Valley of Sound, attempted to rescue the princesses named Rhyme and Reason and guarded the horrible beasts like Gross Exaggeration and Threadbare Excuse. The colorful and creative stage props and backdrops were designed and painted by the students themselves under the direction of Mountain School art and drama instructor Craig Wasserman.

Students Bolster Books Budgets with Read-A-Thon
Copy: Students in Grades 3-6 expanded their minds and their classroom budgets with a Read-a-Thon fundraiser. Students solicited pledges from family, friends and neighbors ranging from $.05 to $.20 for every minute spent reading between November 1 and December 15. During these six weeks, the students spent more than 33,000 minutes reading books and exercising their brains, raising a grand total of $5,433.37!