Teddy bear sleepover inspires creativity at school
PITTSBURGH—Hayden Shipley was stumped.
Though the first-grader thought he knew his teddy bear, Jacob, pretty well, an interview question by fourth-grader Logan Sheehy gave him some pause.
"His favorite food?" repeated Hayden, looking quizzically at Jacob, who minutes earlier had been wearing a karate uniform but was now just wearing socks. "He doesn't have a favorite, but ... oh! Chicken. Me and him like chicken."
At McKee Elementary School in the West Allegheny School District, it was the day of the Teddy Bear Sleepover—an activity first-grade teacher Debra Wolf has spun into a weeklong unit incorporating nearly every academic activity imaginable.
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But the hallmark activity is the sleepover. As they left school one afternoon, the students put their bears to bed, wrapping them inside blankets and pillowcases, reading them stories and brushing their teeth.
When they came in to the Oakdale school the next morning, the bears had run amok. One had been caught with his paw in the candy jar and another had scrambled the student identification tags. There was a bear surrounded by scissors, crayons and scribbled paper, and there was a pair of headphone-clad bears playing on the computers.The students had to write "essays" about what their bears had done overnight—and what consequences they might face for their behavior.
http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_11598870They could do this in college -- beer cans and bongs laying around, half naked bears, ice pack on one's head....
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