Becoming story characters
While stories are loved by all, the way they are told and read have a wonderful effect on the story experience which is reflected in children’s responses. Our recent exploration in storytelling, for the children of our Libraries in Schools (LiS) Program, has been dressing up as a character from the story to be told. […]
The Struggle
Our Libraries in School program runs through the school year with little or no breaks, and plans change and evolve as each week draws by. This year, we decided to focus our direct intervention with a fixed and focussed number of schools, widening our outreach through a simultaneous teacher training program. As such, the school […]
Libraries in School (LiS) Program
The Library in School Program supported by Cipla Foundation was initiated to enable a library experience for hundreds of children in under resourced schools. The Library program includes story read alouds, engagement activities and story books for home lending to children every week in eight schools in Goa (Three Government Primary Schools, one Semi Government […]
A Geography of Visitors – A Vision Renewed
I love the idea of people walking into a library space and this year at Bookworm the numbers were high. We are in the old quarter of Panjim between the historic fountain and the legendary chapel and we are a library. So people do pop in and browse, walk through the rooms appreciate our work […]
Supporting Readers with Book Selections in the Library Class
Our library classes in schools of listening to the story, playing games, singing songs, discussions and much more fun ends with the most exciting thing for the children. It’s the book borrowing time. It all starts with one of the Resource Person raising the lending register and the other Resource Person saying these words; ‘this […]
Best Cared for Book Award
At the end of the academic year, the books that are a part of the Libraries in Schools (LiS) program are brought back from all the schools. Once these books come back to the library, apart from mending and covering, we analyse the collections and separate the books which are in good condition and the […]
Finding Treasure
Every child in our LiS program gets to see a new set of books when the year starts and then soon after the Diwali holidays they get to see another one. This year as the Diwali holidays were getting over, the team sat together and thought of ways in which the collection would be opened […]
Nature Walk outside the School
One of the best thing about 2nd Lt. Jayendra Jayba Rane Govt. High School, Kudchire, Bicholim school is that it is nested in the heart of nature and one will find greenery everywhere. Just right across the school, there is a river flowing which is utilized by people, animals and birds. Birds, yes, you will […]
The Libraries in School Team
A flutter of activity greets you at Bookworm each morning. The school team is getting ready to go school…..are the bags packed with everything we need? Have you gone through the session plan? Where is Stephie, she was supposed to be here at 9! Uday let’s go! This is how most day’s start for the […]
QUIET READING TIME – a new component
With our Libraries in School ( LiS ) program, we have been intense in taking stories to children and running a library class systematically. We try and do this in a structured way but we did not have a segment within this structure for children to read their books or go through the books independently […]