Acorns and Weevils

Caution — this post is not for the faint of heart.  If you have “bug” issues, then go ahead and skip this post.  You could read about some great Fall Circle Time lessons HERE or try this clean science experiment HERE.  Entomophobiacs should try back again tomorrow for a nice and easy fall painting idea.  🙂
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Okay, so you’re still around?  Terrific!  We had the most unexpected and fascinating lesson in preschool last week.  Our students brought in bags and buckets full of acorns in an attempt to fill our sensory table.  The plan was to experience the acorns in the sensory bin, then sort them by size and color, observe which acorns had “hats” and learn about the life cycle of an oak tree.

Do you know what they say about the “best laid plans”? Ahem.  This is what we discovered in our acorn sensory bin:

Hundreds and hundreds of acorn weevils!

Of course, we had to do a little research to learn about these creepy crawlies.  We found this information and picture.

We decided it would be fine to observe the larvae for the week before letting our acorns back outside for the squirrels.

The students loved the weevils!  Seriously, the whole week was spent searching for weevils, making a habitat for the weevils, drawing pictures of weevils and playing hide and seek with them (see below).

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