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Shall I write an alternative diary for the school bear?

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Molehillmountain · 01/03/2012 09:34

He's with us for the week and I am hugely tempted to take him to greggs and buy him sausage rolls and fruit shoots, given the wholesome experiences recorded in his diary so far!!!

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blackeyedsusan · 02/03/2012 22:01

the first thing the class toy did was get a wash, then a bath, then a trip in the washing machine to dry it out. I did take a couple of photos on the doostep which prooved useful after its markings washed off in the machine. Blush

he was also in need of an operation as it seems were splitting. took photos of dd tending to the bear.

kazzie5 · 02/03/2012 22:51

In my reception class we have a cat, I upped the stakes for competitive "what shall we write in the book" by taking him to New Zealand for the Christmas holidays - and producing a DVD on our return.
I must admit my husband and brother got rather enthusiastic about the whole project and there are two DVDs, one which the children love and sing along to - maori music of course!! and the PG version which has a few pictures that I would be loath to let the children see - they think the cat is wonderful because he loves good, kind, hardworking children!!!

northcountrygirl · 03/03/2012 01:07

This was what we did (with the photoshopped pics)

Wednesday

I came home with X today. I was quite tired from all my recent activities so I am having an early night in preparation for my latest adventure. I can?t wait to see what tomorrow brings!

Thursday

Well all I can say is that today was a complete disappointment. I am used to better things to be quite honest?

The day did not start well as X?s dog ?took a shine to me? and carried me off to his dog basket. By the time this tragedy was discovered the dog had managed to cover me from head to paw in foul smelling ?dog drool?.

[insert photo with dog]

X did not seem to love me anymore after this, as she left me with the coats when we went to her other nursery.

After hours and hours I was finally taken back to X's home. I was looking forward to a spot of tea and maybe a bedtime story, but instead spent the night on a radiator after nearly losing life and limb in the washing machine.

[insert photo in washing machine]

I only hope tomorrow is more fun?

Friday

To make up for the nightmare that was yesterday, today X's mum took me to work with her. X?s mum has a cool job.

[insert photo on the moon]

When we got home we had fish and chips for tea and then I met Uncle Johnny who read us both a bedtime story. It was great ? I like pirates, but he does smell a bit ?funny?.
I have to say, today has been a definite improvement on yesterday.

[insert photo with captain jack and a bottle of grog]

Saturday

We had an early start today as we had to attend a family wedding. We had to park miles away from the church so had a bit of walk from the car.

[insert Abbey road photo]

It was worth it in the end though. It was a pretty good wedding ? with a good turn out.
[insert royal wedding photo]

Sunday

We had a pretty lazy day today. We went to the local park to play ball with X?s cousins.

[insert all nations rugby pic]

Then we went on the boating lake. It was a very big lake.

[insert round the world boat pic]

Next X asked if we could play with the sand. The sand pit was HUGE with some amazing sand castles. X said they were called pyramids. I think they must have taken ages to build, weeks probably. There was a bit of a hair raising moment when a large humpy creature took a bit of a liking to me. The dog incident was still fresh in my mind so I was pleased to leave the sand if I?m honest.

[insert camel photo]

ProfessorSunny · 03/03/2012 08:00

do it, it would start my Monday morning at work with a good laugh :)

aquafunf · 03/03/2012 09:52

DD1 had "sodding Barnaby Bear". 11 years on, still traumatised by the fact that we lost it. Yes really lost it- left on a train never to be seen again.

The replacement Barnaby continued its evil way until the deputy head took it to Australia and fell backwards when trying to get a picture of it in front of Sydney Opera House and broke her arm.

I was the only one who laughed out loud when I heard this (covers self in shame again)

DD3 is about to start School. Is there a form where i can opt out?

wellilikemythinking · 03/03/2012 11:20

Oh this thread is fab, me and DH as sad as we are had a great time with Bear. Pictured with onion rings on his eyes lying against an empty wine glass very juvenile but funny! As on holiday at the time there was just lots of pics of bear lying in inflatables in the pool wearing his sunnies Grin

sugartongue · 03/03/2012 11:57

After countless trips to tennis lessons and a doubtless thrilling adventure in Thailand, we took the bear to Blackpool Pleasure Beach...classy Grin

Issieander · 03/03/2012 14:56

I am loving this thread

We had Pippin, DDs class mascot at October half term and managed to get his photo taken with Alice Cooper - we thought it was great, DD less so - probably as she is only 7 and hasn't got a clue who Alice Cooper is. The teacher also not much older than 7!!!! so am thinking that the significance was probably lost on her too!!!

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Molehillmountain · 03/03/2012 15:02

Oops-bear was meant to go to rugby this morning but he overslept and missed it. (or was forgotten-surely not?Blush). He has watched a lot of telly though. No fruit shoots but he's had pink milk. Nor sausage rolls-but bacon sarnies-he likes ketchup!

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Heswall · 03/03/2012 15:36

I took a picyure of the class bear "charlie" having his calpol and having his temperature taken by DD as we were all ill and frankly I could not be arsed.
Some people seem to get the bear for half terms and funnily enough have a far more exciting times than getting him for a wet weekend in January.

Dorsetyke · 03/03/2012 22:21

We were too poor for a class bear when I was at our school...but we often took the headlice home for the weekend! Grin

D0oinMeCleanin · 03/03/2012 22:26

Dd2 has the class bear this weekend. He went to Nana's house for tea on Friday while dd2's mummy worked. He went to Gran's house for dinner today, while dd2's parents both worked.

I am a neglectful class bear mummy.

In my defence he is going to a farm tomorrow, where he will not be eaten by goats hopefully.

BloodyBear · 03/03/2012 22:36

We have the bloody bear this weekend!
Massively proud of ds for getting it for the first time
Could have wept when I read the diary for the first time ...... the artwork .......the shite little crafty bits stuck all over it ........... the professional style photos.
It's a whole new level of competitive parenting game insane!
The sodding bear will have an (albeit piss takingly) amazing time with us.
There are previous photos of it with ponies. Pah! Today it met proper big horses, a micro pig and new born calfs.
I will lay awake all night trying to think of further suitably ridiculous senarios for tomorrow!

bessie26 · 03/03/2012 22:48

Oh shit. We have only just been told about the existance of the pre-school bear. Not sure if this means he will be coming to visit us very soon???

So far our plans involve taking him to the woods to answer that age-old question Grin

Dancergirl · 04/03/2012 08:07

We had bloody Bradley Bear recently. Luckily you only get the bear for one night unless it happens to be over a weekend. I had been pre-warned about the time and effort that had gone into previous entries, however I knew that I wasn't going to buy into all that as we haven't got a printer so photos were out.

The bear had quite a boring evening with dd, eating tea, overseeing her bath time etc. The diary entry consisted of a few paragraphs written by me (10 mins) and a couple of pics drawn by dd (another 10 mins). Job done. I'm sure that's all that's expected but even if not I don't really care quite frankly.

Would have loved to do an alternative one though......next time!

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toomuchsand · 04/03/2012 08:58

we had the bear, nightmare, ds not keen to do anything with it as his bete noir had had it the week before. did emergency photoshoot with it for ten minutes -tea party with other bears, dressed up in pink clothes with dolls, lookng out of window with honey- ds refused to be in any shots. then dispatached a vv grumpy dh to shop to get photos printed, stuck in diary etc. ds refused to get involved. hope we never get it again:)

Dorsetyke · 04/03/2012 09:09

How about a photo of Bear surfing the net and coming across this thread? Put the link in the book and return to school!

ReshapeWhileDamp · 04/03/2012 10:55

My brother gave DS1 a 'Knuffle Bunny' a few years ago, as a tie-in to the totally excellent Knuffle Bunny books. Unfortunately, Knuffle Bunny #1 was lost while on holiday and my brother kindly sent us a replacement (they cost stupid money in the UK) along with a 'passport' and a set of photos of what Knuffle Bunny had got up to on his holidays in Las Vegas.

They were thoughtfully divided into two sections, marked 'For DS1' and 'For parents only'. Grin The first set showed Knuffle Bunny meeting my nephew's soft toys, his cats, sitting in the garden, etc. The second set were X-rated and showed him sitting up late playing cards with the soft toys and getting smashed, doing a line of coke, playing with the slots in a casino, and watching 'bunny porn' on the internet! Grin

I am SO tempted to do this with Barney Bloody Bear the next time he turns up with his liddle rucksack, pyjamas and noro virus. Hmm

tethersend · 04/03/2012 11:56

Bear realising the futility of his own existence.

Ultimately, he blames the attachment problems he suffers due to never being in one place for very long.

Bear gets very, very, drunk.

BigHairyLeggedSpider · 04/03/2012 13:11

Our bear got tied to a swingball set and batted about a bit, then hung from the washing line by his ears..... we didnt tell the diary that though. It was all "oh teddy played in the garden!" When ds2 went to bed, teddy sat up drinking wine... the fucking lush!

Dlamis · 04/03/2012 13:29

lol northcountrygirl,that's great!

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Molehillmountain · 04/03/2012 14:09

So...blank page in front of me...given that I talk the talk but am not actually brave enough to write the diary entry I want to Wink, how do I pitch this thing so it does the job for Ds who's very excited about bears time with us. On the wrong day, virtually anything beyond "bear sat on the sofa and did nothing" would make me feel inadequate. Okay to record making a birthday cake and a family birthday party and a sports class on Saturday? We don't often do the baking but we did this weekend and Ds was very proud. Will leave out the trip to Disneyland and ds's piano recital of Mozart sonatas Grin. All I can say is we've done nothing special that we wouldn't have done anyway and I'm going to do a couple of paragraphs rather than a several page epic. Would it be okay to put a couple of photos? Ds is three and he'll need to talk about it in circle time so the pics would be a prompt.

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moonbells · 04/03/2012 15:56

(I am now dreading the arrival of the class stuffed dog)

areyoumad · 04/03/2012 18:13

Haha, at the risk of outing myself, we have a department bear as our team travels alot, I took him with me to Italy last month, (my colleagues said that I had to make him do something that he hadn't done before) I went with someone from a different department who had his DS school bear, I promptly put them in bed together and took photos of the first one night stand!!
Made everyone laugh, especially when I went and got a mini bear from a charity shop and did a letter to the team saying that the school were really disappointed with school bears liaison and the parents could not find out what had happened so we had to adopt mini bear Grin
Maybe I took it a bit to far but everyone really did howl, I can't wait for the next trip now!