Saturday mornings at Bookworm
“Good morning everyone, are we happy to be back at Bookworm?” A loud ‘Yes ‘comes the reply from the kids happily settled on the mats, ready for the Saturday morning session to start. “I know what we are going to do today” pipes someone, ‘me too’ adds another and we are off exploring the theme […]
Art Appreciation with Soumik Majumdar from Santiniketan
We appreciate Sanjiv Mirchandani of Indian Ateliers for embracing Bookworm’s work with children and art. Sanjiv first intimated us about Soumik Majumdar, an art historian who works with children to awaken the ability to appreciate art – as art for arts sake as well as, as a part of the human experience. We liked Soumik […]
October 2012 Calendar
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An Archaeologist at Bookworm
What makes an archaeologist dig and why ? This and other questions were answered and shared by Brian Wilson, a young, articulate, giving archaeologist at Bookworm on Friday 14th September. Brian is in Goa on a Full bright Fellowship ‘ doing a surface search’ and examining ceramic shards and pottery in Old Goa. He shared […]
Reading Susheela’s Kolams with Pratham Books
8th of September, WORLD LITERACY DAY and Bookworm agreed to participate in Pratham Books program to read Susheela’s Kolams. We read the book at 4 locations on the day Bookworm Library Space – on preschool morning Bookworm MOP – Taleigao – evening Bookworm MOP – Merces – evening Bookworm MOP – Chimbel – evening Once […]
World Literacy day celebrations with Pratham Books – Read aloud of Susheela’s Kolams
We are celebrating World Literacy day by participating in a nationwide read aloud of Pratham books. The book chosen by Susheela’s Kolams. Bookworm will participate by doing the read aloud and follow-up activity at 3 Mobile Outreach Program sites ( Chimbel, Merces and Taleigao at 5. 00 pm ), expected impact of around 100 children […]
Happy teacher’s day
“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.” And the little ones who are inspired everyday were at Bookworm on the evening of the 4th of September making personalized crafts and cards to take to school for Teacher’s Day! The kids were all ears as Elaine read […]
Celebrating Onam at Bookworm
Pookkalam a word in Malayalam is derived from two words “poo” and “kalam” which means “flowers” and “artwork” respectively. People in Kerala lay this intricate floral artwork on their courtyards on Atham, the first day of Onam. At Bookworm we got our act together on the last day of Onam, 29th August, before the 10 […]
Kids Cook on 14th August
A group of enthusiastic kids….a skilled teacher….and a guarantee of warm orange cup cakes at the end of the day; this is a recipe for a sure shot success of an evening. Thus was the August edition of Kids Cook at Bookworm, held on the 14th of August. Elaine had the kids’ full attention as […]
Green Path in July 2012
Friday the 13th was……a brilliant day indeed! Even the weather Gods conspired, and after a spell of 4 nonstop rainy days, the clouds parted and what we had was a pleasant, sunny evening with a cool breeze blowing! And so it was, that at 5:30 that evening, Bookworm’s July edition of ‘Green Path’ began! […]