Connecticut Audubon Society Education Manager and teacher Tricia Kevalis visited with Head O’ Meadow Elementary School students on Monday, March 9, with a number of other “visitors.”

Ms Kevalis explained to first grade students in Carol Howard’s class she was there to speak with the students about animals that live in Connecticut forests.

“We are going to start at the top of the forest,” said Ms Kevalis, who spoke in a number of classrooms during her visit to Head O’ Meadow.

Ms Kevalis told the students that some animals live in the tops of trees, and other animals live in other parts of the forest. She used a poster with a tree on it to demonstrate that some animals live in the top part of a tree where branches are thinner, some live in holes in trees, some live on the ground, and some live underground.

Inside a number of cases she brought with her for the day, Ms Kevalis had other “representatives” from the Connecticut Audubon Society, including a Madagascar hissing cockroach, a millipede, a field mouse, a box turtle, a green tree frog, and a barn owl named Milton, who stretched his wings out for the students to see when asked by Ms Kevalis.

After introducing each animal and insect to the students, Ms Kevalis also brought them around the circle of students for them to see, and sometimes touch.