Each day our classroom teddy bear will go home with a different child.  It'll be that child’s responsibility to take care of the bear and return it to the classroom the next morning.  A parent will read the accompanying bear book with the child and the visiting bear and also help write a journal entry, taking dictation from the child about the various activities they took part in while visiting.  The child will illustrate the journal entry.  We will read the story, and the bear will visit someone else.  (The journals will be sold at the Crab Feed Auction too.) Our bear will be machine washed each weekend. A trip in the washer and the dryer on low will be just fine.  Each child will have a chance to host the bear several times during the year.  We hope he will be a well-behaved guest.