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To return the class bear with a note saying thanks, but no thanks

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Wailywailywaily · 08/02/2015 16:15

DS has the Reception class Bear to entertain this weekend. The bear has two books full of his previous adventures and TBH he has a busy life.

I'm ashamed to say that he has now spent the entire weekend in his suitcase Blush.

DS gets a lot of homework for a reception child IMO - spellings, drawing and reading - and I can't be bothered to make him come up with an adventure for the Bear as well.

So I was thinking that the Bear seems to need a rest anyway and perhaps it would be just fine to send him back having had a good long snooze?

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Libra · 09/02/2015 12:18

Our class bear was an eco-bear. Not only did he have to do something over the weekend, it had to be eco-friendly.
We got him late on and that poor bear had been to the dump with glass collections about ten times. It was fascinating looking at the photos of all the bottles from different families. Made the whole thing worth while.
We took him up on to the roof to check that the solar panels were still working.

SolidGoldBrass · 09/02/2015 12:29

We were the first to get the class toy (Bubbles the Monkey) when DS was in reception. It happened to be the weekend we were visiting his grandparents and going to the aviation museum - the other parents must have hated us...
I also sneaked a photo of Bubbles with a porn mag and some empty Strongbow cans... (and managed not to put that one in the book).

Meechimoo · 09/02/2015 12:34

I lost the class bear.
School were very unimpressed with me.

RavenRose · 09/02/2015 12:44

When dd1 brought home the class bear we took him to Whitby Goth Weekend. He had a ride on a donkey, a pint in the Elsinore, a trip round the jet merchants and had his photo taken with lots of interestly dressed people. Strangely although others in the class had him more than once dd1 never did! Dd2 never got to bring him home eitherSmile

cerealqueen · 09/02/2015 12:47

I quite enjoyed having the Bear, because Dd was so so excited. I could see her adventures in the book but didn't get sucked in to the level of competitiveness. As far as i was concerned, the Bear was here for a playdate and did out normal stuff with us, which Dd was thrilled about. Trip to the park, tea complete with her own plate etc, bath (observed, not immersed) bedtime. Done. I wrote it up as it was early in the year and Dd couldn't write and DD did some pictures.

CarolineGB · 09/02/2015 12:52

The class bear arrived at or house on an appalling week, we had lost my fil that weekend, I suspect school were trying to do us a favour by helping distract dd from the hideousness of it, I returned it and asked if we could please have it another weekend when we could cope!!!! They were great about it and the bear came a few months later (admittedly I was sort of hoping they might forget - I should be so lucky!!)

nifaitniafaire · 09/02/2015 13:04

We got the bear last year in reception and it was fun. I wrote a summary/poem like of what we did with the help of DS.

This year, we got another bear to take home (year 1, different school). I did take pictures and stuff but then got annoyed because apparently it was for me to write about bear not DS. I thought it was DS trying to be lazy but he checked and it was for the parents to write what bear had been up to so I refused. I'm a grown woman and can write in several languages! It's for DS to practice that's the only point of the exercise: having something to write about and getting used to write.

DS wasn't happy but I'm his mum and I maintain my role is to help him progress not let him do what the hell he wants.

chinstrappenguin · 09/02/2015 13:11

Thank you for this thread! I have 2 DDs and a few weeks ago they both were star of the week so i had 2 of the sodding diaries to do. I made the mistake of looking at the bears previous exploits and felt very guilty that he was only watching Disney Junior and going to Tesco. Glad to see I am not alone on these 'chilled' weekends!

Skinimum · 09/02/2015 13:16

When we had 'the bear' I disinfected it in the washing machine! It shrank and we never got it again!!

Marcipex · 09/02/2015 13:30

Wash bear in washing machine.

Lay wet bear on colourful towel, add bucket,spade,sea shells. Take photo.

Done.

DirtyDancing · 09/02/2015 13:45

Argh. It's not about what the best had done, he doesn't have to have climbed Everest. It's about your child being given the opportunity to look after bear for a weekend & tell the others about it. If that's chilling out that's fine, but don't let your child down by giving them nothing to day at all

DirtyDancing · 09/02/2015 13:46

*say

NorksAreMessy · 09/02/2015 14:09

This is Pomtoo, the official MumsNet class bear.
He went to a Mumsnettter in Essex (name not given, to spare her blushes) and was NEVER SEEN AGAIN

To return the class bear with a note saying thanks, but no thanks
To return the class bear with a note saying thanks, but no thanks
Sukebind · 09/02/2015 14:21

Shock at the eco-bear! We had a class owl, which we got twice, and then we also got a koala or something that was visiting from Australia with a relative of the teacher. DD made it a holiday diary to take home with it. We also have a Sunday school bear! Last time we had the bear he went to the library, school and by fortunate timing also got to go to a panto with the Brownies. The cuddly visitors to our house always have fairly modest diaries detailing trips to the park or a grandparent's house. They have never been to Albert Square, the Louvre or Dubai.

ISpidersmanYouMeanPirate · 09/02/2015 14:21

Our bear was handwash only and I couldnt be arsed so we only got him out a few times.

A few weekends before us was a photo of bear on a dog...

DS1 was not allowed to sleep with the class bear! (History of dog allergies in our family) but it seems thats other childreb did.

FrenchJunebug · 09/02/2015 14:22

YABU my bear went on the bus and to the supermarket and then home to play with the other soft toys. He has a fab time!

OnlyLovers · 09/02/2015 14:25

Say he disappeared for much of the weekend and was unable to explain, on his return, where he'd been or what he'd done. The doctor diagnosed a fugue state.

Give the teacher brownie points if they recognise and acknowledge the Braking Bad reference.

cheekychirpy · 09/02/2015 14:33

Just waited for the dreaded bear to come home. Didn't have it in Yr R, maybe I'm just not bear-mother material...

Don't worry about keeping up with the Joneses - even bears have to have some down time sometime.

Hold your head high - the next mum to have the bear will be chuffed to bits when they only have to take it to Tesco Grin

cheekychirpy · 09/02/2015 14:34

oops, waiting.

VenusRising · 09/02/2015 14:34

Gosh, our bear had a good wash, and then a repair job as stuffing came out on the spin cycle.

I couldn't believe how filthy it was- seemingly years and years of never being washed. (Yuk) I think we went to the cinema with it then.

Why does your DS have so much homework OP? Seems a little crazy, no?

adakdd · 09/02/2015 14:38

My granddaughter brought the class bear to stay with me for the weekend . He had some wicked adventures and we had lots of " unusual" photos of him inside the food processor / washing machine / hanging from the chandelier / sitting in the fridge etc etc! Was a little selective with the photos sent back but it was great fun for us both ??

Outtaideas · 09/02/2015 14:40

This year's bear is a detective dog complete with magnifying glass and little dog basket (more effing things to get lost around house and cause distraught DS when mislaid) ....all it's done at mine - aside from sit imposingly by the TV - is taken a ride in a large plastic army helicopter toy and sat in a basket with a relatives real dogs. Not too bad...but that was 2 weeks ago, I've only just printed out the pics as DS is upset at my slackness and gonna have to beg the 'diary' back from the class teacher to write up the thrilling adventures Chez Outta. I am a poor parent.

UptobedNOW · 09/02/2015 14:43

You lot have had it easy, we had to have the class dinosaur egg overnight. It sat between my dd's whilst they ate lollipops then had a bedtime story from Daddy Hmm (I obviously then smashed the egg up and burned the journal and removed my Dd from the school WinkGrin )

MumSnotBU · 09/02/2015 14:48

Ours tidied the bedroom
With before and after shots Smile

trevortrevorslattery · 09/02/2015 15:08

Do none of these class bears shit in the woods? That would be an interesting photo-opportunity Grin

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