Story Book Art at Bookworm
Written by Barkha Sharda We had the first session for ‘Art Room’ today. The children were between 2 ½ and 4 years of age. Sheena narrated to the children the wonderful story of ‘Mr. Seahorse’ written by Eric Carle. We saw stone fish and leaf fish as we went through the sea with him and […]
The Balloon
Written by Melcom Braganza ‘The Balloon’ published by NBT, a wordless book is one of the books that I have personally enjoyed while reading to the MOP junior Kids at our MOP sites in St Inez, Chimbel and Taleigao. Though it is a wordless book but it is a book that demands words from the […]
Photo Book Making Project for Grandparents at Bookworm
Grandparents are a treasure of stories and memories. Traditionally, these stories were passed on from generation to generation orally through reciting anecdotes in family gatherings on the dining table and so on. Modern living may not allow such opportunities, with the younger generation being unable to spend time with the elders in their families. This […]
The L3 Program – taking the leap from language to literacy, through children’s literature.
Written by Dr. Nandita deSouza Serendipity happens as regular as clockwork in my life. A remark made in passing by Sujata at one of our meetings, caught my attention ‘We are having a 3 day training for our Bookworm study group next week’. I seized this information with both ears and demanded to be included, […]
Book Fest in Sanquelim in Association with JCI Sanquelim
We were invited by JC Peeush to participate in a Book Fest organised by the JCI in Sanquelim on Sunday 1st June. The opportunity to go to Sanquelim, to promote books and to collaborate with a new team was plenty of reason. So three car loads ( packed to the gills with books, craft and […]
Pratham Books Libraries in Classroom Grant Report
Last year Bookworm received the Libraries in Classroom Grant from Pratham Books that enabled the Chimbel site to receive 100+ books in Indian Languages. You can download the report here…
Library Summer Camp Summary
The Summer of 2014 was proving to be challenging. We needed to keep the worm reading and we had just the right team on hand. Determined, creative, thoughtful Resource Persons in Krystal – Sheena – Priya – Tara – Deepali with help from me and Priya had a fantastic summer. Sunlights for 2014 are here […]
June 2014 Events Calendar
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Reading Workshop at Bookworm
As part of the Continuing Education on Language, Literature and Literacy at Bookworm, we are organising sessions on Reading . The content is being offered in a workshop mode to help us refresh and inform our ideas about perspectives on reading, reading theories and reading strategies that promote and support the process of reading. These […]
Chuk Chuk
Posted by Deepali Correya The Summer Camp ended and what an exciting Summer camp it has been!!! In all this excitement, a story with a train would fit just right. So I gathered the children and we all started about how everybody travels and everybody mentioned car, bus,train and a plane. Everybody had travelled in trains […]