Sorry this is long!!!
Every week my (PFB) son's school nursery class focus on a letter/phonic and they have to bring in something beginning with that letter. Last week was "X" and of course lots of xylophones and x-ray photos were brought in!
My son brought in a wooden ELC xylophone. (In hindsight I should have labelled it - and I am very cross with myself for not doing so!) We noticed another boy with the same one in the queue in the morning, and I jokingly said to my son, make sure you don't bring X's home with you, it looks a lot more damagedbattered that ours!!
Anyway, It didn't come home with him the same day because they were doing inductions into reception and we picked them up from a different place, and then the rest of the week his dad/nan has picked him up and I didn't think to remind them.
On Monday I mentioned it to the TA and she said Ohhh we did have one xylophone left and no child would admit it was theirs. So I looked at it and said that's definitely not our one, it's the one X had in the queue. (It has a very distinctive mark on the front)
So the TA has had a word with the mum in question this morning, and she has apparently sworn they brought their one home.
So what do I do now? I'm hoping the mum was just embarrassed and will go home and look at the xylophone and realise it's not their one. I don't want to sound petty but our one was in good nick, and the other one is damaged. Also my son knows that it's not our one. I won't see his teacher again today as they are doing more reception inductions, and his dad/nan will be doing the school run for the rest of the week. Should I write a letter?