Ds brings home school toy...wth?

[witchkat72]

Ok new to this so forgive me if on wrong board. My ds who is 4 brings home the nursery toy. The idea is for him to take said toy/puppet out with us until Monday, where I am to take pictures and write a lengthy diary entry of what ds and puppet have done. Problem is so far ds has shown no interest in even going near it/him and has categorically said it /he is not ds' friend what on earth do I do now? Take pictures of said puppet ostracized to corner of sofa? Write that its had a fab time being carted around by me in a duffle bag all weekend and ds has ignored it? Wwyd?

When DS2 brought the class bear home our dog tried to eat it.

We wrote about how much fun the bear had had but how it was scared of dogs. I mended it (reasonably invisibly) and the other mothers wished the dog had done a more thorough job!

my DP is a teacher (reception) and he told me they get the kids to do these pretty much only for the teachers to remember the kids by. They don't keep the learning records when they move up a year. Dont worry about them, if you want, write a nice little thing about your DP and the teddy and hand it back.

Yes seasonal - it all got very competitive when my DC took their turn with the class bear. I'm afraid that Bear had a very quiet weekend watching movies when he came to our house in the middle of winter although I had to rescue it from the dog more than once .

Aww that takes me back. DS1 was the same OP- DS2 loved class bear...

Puppet on porch, all alone, by the wellies. Caption: my host said I am not his friend.

Iggii999 - There was a MN bear?! What happened?

They smell of a thousand children.
Ds had the one from nursery when he was about two. Just took a picture of him taking him from the car,sitting with him on sofa & of him meeting some bear friends.
The one from primary is more competitive apparently.

We had the class bear last year.
Ds loved it - for all of Friday afternoon and then completely lost interest. I was incredibly lucky we were going to a wedding on the Saturday so I had a lot of photograph opportunities, but it was hard work to get ds to sit and hold the bear quite a lot of the time. I did a few "bear selfies" with the bride in the background.
On the Sunday it was all about the bear having fun with my younger child as ds had not only lost interest but was actively rebelling. Thankfully in year 1 they don't seem to have a bear. I am instead hunting through old photos for "memory box week." Ugh.

I'm with making it up

On Tuesday night after a few glasses of wine (bear with wine glass) nurserybear met homebunny, they "disappeared"

Wednesday morning, bunny and bear looking a bit sorry for themselves (bear in sunglasses drinking a hangover cure

Sunday after days of wondering where the two toys had gone having not seen them since they they were found looking sorry for themselves on Wednesday morning they were found a bit dishevelled behind the sofa.

I absolutely hate this activity and I think you can give it back saying your DS wasn't interested.
My DD had an awful time every week in reception as she never got picked to have it. She was the only one in class. In year one it took months, I can't see why she had to go over the disappointments every week again.
This year no bear, yey! Stupid activity.
Surprise surprise they bloody have Birthday Bear in Brownies, she was do excited to get it after her birthday only for the previous girl to forget it one week, not turn up the next.

My kids loved this. Didn't lay on anything special they just took it round the house and posed it in various rooms - playing the piano, having a bath (in washing machine), getting dry pegged on line. Isn't it just a way of getting some kids (who might not usually have much to say) to talk to the class - or even just to the teacher? FAirly harmless and only as arduous as you want to make it (also hilarious to see some of the other entries).

How many people have had bear before you OP? If you are one of the first it is your absolute duty to make sure that bear has a completely chilled weekend... possibly watching cartoons or playing minecraft. All the other parents will thank you for it.

Teddy had an unfortunate accident when he came to us... he fell into the washing ended up in the machine!!! I particularly enjoyed pegging him to the line by his ears. (I hate these things).

At our school bear watches to see which child is best behaved and therefore deserving of his visit... its all a bit 'big brother' for me.

Oh gawd... this makes me feel old..
There's at least a decades-worth of threads on Mumsnet about what to do with the School Bear and some of them are hilarious.

They range from the digitally enhanced pictures of the Bear jet-setting around the world for the weekend to lying face-down in a pile of wine and champagne bottles after 'A Great Party!'

Be creative... the best stories are the ones which make the teacher giggle, but the kids don't really understand....

It's purely a spying mechanism so the teacher finds out what goes on in your house as clearly the "what I did at the weekend stories" are mot eliciting enough detail...:o

[insert name of toy] has traumatised ds beyond all recognition it spent the time buried in the garden while the rest of us underwent extensive therapy suggest in future maybe a hamster would be more appropriate
Regards witchkat

My kids love it, its like a treat (even though they take it in turns around the class). You only need to take a couple of photos and write a sentence or two... don't write an essay or anything as no one really looks at it - its just for the kids.

Can you make it topical?

• Bear watches US Election result on TV
• Bear wears a poppy
• Bear falls in a pile of leaves in the garden....

At least it's only a bear. When my DS was in Reception, we had to entertain a bucketful of dinosaurs! It was quite good fun, actually - he had them during the rugby world cup, so we took photos of them in front of the TV screen, with the T-Rex holding a grape like a rugby ball, and said they'd been selected to play for Wales.

We put a Darth Vader mask on ours and said he had decided to become a Sith.

OK, yes, It's the DailyFail, but....
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2628465/The-teddy-bears-pushy-parents-sparking-class-wars-schools.html

I remember this, our diary entry (based on the fact that he 'was smelly' according to DS) was how much teddy enjoyed a febreeze shower and time in the garden.

It's purely a spying mechanism so the teacher finds out what goes on in your house as clearly the "what I did at the weekend stories" are mot eliciting enough detail..

LOL this made me laugh. We totally don't need a spying mechanism, children are desperate to tell us what happens (wine and twerking sometimes rears its ugly head).

It is a fairly common saying, 'If you don't believe half of what your child tells us about school, we won't believe half of what your child tells us about home'

:)

Can't bear get so rat arsed on friday night, he spends the whole weekend in bed nursing a hangover?

I had one that spent a weekend on a high shelf hiding from my cat...she grabbed it within 10 minutes of it coming home and ran off into the garden to kill it.

I wasn't risking her getting it again after I wrestled it off her.

That's also what the diary entry said complete with photo of the cat and none of the bear.

Why doesn't your son like the toy? Is it creepy?