But that’s just what students in Warren Area Elementary Center second-grade teacher Sara Nickerson’s room did.

The class took a unit on the rainforest and turned it into an opportunity to renovate.

There were vines and leaves representing of the canopy. The Amazon River ran through the middle of the room at the forest floor.

Students were not allowed to open the roof to display the very tops of the trees.

Times Observer photo by Brian Ferry Warren Area Elementary Center second-grader Razzlin Pratz reads to his peers about the Amazon River. Pictured (from left) are second-graders Jaxson Boozer, Pratz, Jesse Sheats, and Elaina Sorensen.

There were creatures all around.

In the river, there were piranhas and caimans.

In the trees, there were parrots and monkeys.

But it wasn’t all about the visuals.

Adding to the sounds of the rainforest permeating the room were the voices of students.

Nickerson’s students presented information about the various parts of the rainforest and its inhabitants to their peers who came visiting.