Brilliant News! the newsletter for the Benny Bear Club
April 2012
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Hi Benny Members, I hope you enjoyed the first edition of ‘Brilliant News!’? Did you love my Benny postcard, complete with my very own Benny stamp? Don’t forget to write to me with all your news and photos – I love photos! Did you all see my photos at St. Paul’s Church of England School in Nuneaton? I had great fun and would love to visit your school or nursery. Why not ask your Mummy’s and Daddy’s to help you to organise a visit? Now back to business …
Benny is a bear with hydrocephalus. Benny helps children to understand what it is like to live with the condition
Benny’s story time! Did you all manage to read a book in March, or ask a grown up to read to you? I love to snuggle up to Mummy and Daddy Bear and listen to their stories. Sometimes they don’t read from a book, they just make up stories and we take it in turns to imagine and say what might happen next. Mummy and Daddy says it helps with my memory skills and my imagination. Here is a story about me – perhaps you could make up your own ending – what you think happened next … ‘Easter time again’, said Benny, ‘lots of fun in the garden playing Easter egg hunts and eating yummy chocolate.’ ‘Yes’ said Mummy Bear, ‘but we have to look after our teeth to make sure they stay clean and sparkly.’ Benny thought for a moment – ‘And we must eat lots of vegetables to keep us healthy and water to help keep us hydrated - especially for me with my hydrocephalus’. ‘Great stuff’ said Mummy, ‘you are learning quickly. Perhaps we could grow some of our own food to eat, carrots perhaps or even a Cress Head’. continued on the next page ...