Letters to the Forest

If you’ve heard your Roots student say “Fox told me…” or “In my letter from Bear…” it is because they have recently had the chance to correspond with a forest friend of their choice! Students in all classes wrote and received...

Welcome to the Forest!

Enjoy this guest post from McCall Donnelly High School Teacher Melissa Coriell: The Tamaracks welcomed the McCall Donnelly High School speech class into their forest classroom last week. The high school students have been participating in a research project to learn...

Ice Fishing

This week, we are learning about some features of life in the Arctic. We felt very fortunate to get a gorgeous afternoon of ice fishing on Payette Lake this afternoon with the Tamaracks! We went out onto the lake from the Ponderosa Park Visitor Center.    ...

Roots Winter Olympics

In the spirit of the current Winter Olympics, Roots students participated in their own Winter Games this week! The week kicked off with our music teacher Miss Katie leading us in ‘Music Olympics’ to review some of the musical concepts we’ve learned...

Snow sculpting with an expert

After being inspired by the sculptures we saw on our Winter Carnival field trip in town, students were ready to try out snow sculpting themselves. On Monday, the Ponderosa Pines were visited by veteran McCall snow sculptor and former teacher, Ellen McKinney. Ellen...