We Saw Red!!
(Posted by Tara Saldanha) Thursday, 8th of May saw an eager bunch of children bound into the library . To begin the day dedicated to the colour red, we sent the kids on a scavenger hunt around the library for all things red. Once our scavenger baskets were brimming, Sheena brought out a selection of […]
Read Aloud Bucket List
It’s Summer time and of course at Bookworm, we’re all about books and reading! This summer, we created a Summer Reading Bucket List and it’s available in the library for anyone who’s up for the challenge! Through our programs, we read in schools, we read in community spaces, and we read in parks. But this […]
The Clown of God and the Bookworms Met St. Michael.
Our Summer Calendar schedule had us all planning to go visit St. Michael – now, he resides in the beautiful church of Taleigao 150 metres from the Library and his garden and house are one of great potential for bookworms. We aimed to have fun ( but, ofcourse) and we aimed to read a […]
With Light and Shadows They Did Play…
Shadows and Light. If you’re wondering how a theme like this would pan out, here’s a look at what Isa pulled out of the bag for this session. Warm up! Shake it out! Tell me you name…with flourish is how we do it in this game! Do a twirl, or hop around, wave your […]
A Summer’s Day….With Tales and Trains!
I love trains! And I love summer! And I love books! In a nutshell, all these things put together with a bunch of happy, energetic and excited kids, and you have day 2 of our summer program. ‘Let’s Go!’ was today’s theme. And these were the very same words we kept hearing over and over […]
We started Summer….Baking, Shaking…and Reading!
We kicked off our Summer Program with food ! Of course the session was led by me, food lover that I am and evidently tucking it in to go by my returner Eric’s comment. Eric was at Summer Program 2013 and it was joyful to have him back until he looked at me and said […]
Kids Bake Some Christmas Cookies
Christmas is just around the corner and in anticipation our young bakers whip up a batch of special cookies. And so; Into a bowl goes butter and sugar, stir about, stir about, stir about next comes the flour and rawa in good measure mix about, mix about, mix about roll out the dough then […]
Green Print, Mansher
We wanted an early start so we set out on Friday the 13th at 4:15pm. As Tallulah had promised it were a long and an adventurous walk. At the start of our walk we noticed that we were walking along the mangroves. It was wonderful to see the mangroves so closely. She pointed out to […]
Our Saturday Mornings
At the start of the academic year in June, it was sad to lose a number of our core Preschool Morning regulars as they had moved up to class one and now have school on Saturday too. Over the next couple of months a fresh lot of kids came in but not on a regular […]
Green Print at 4 Pillars
I have crossed 4 pillars on a number of occasions but only discovered the treasures of this place on our green print walk. We set off in 3 cars from the library and parked near the sawmill at 4 pillars. As we saw the sun set, Tallulah told us how ‘Mansher’ gets its name from […]