Teaching is a work of heart
Written by Deepali “Teaching is a work of heart” I happened to read this somewhere and it made me pause for a moment and totally agree. So many children touch our lives in different ways and every child makes his own place in our heart. We go to different schools to conduct weekly library sessions […]
Growing our Banyan Tree
The room knows its users. Some months back it knew the hands and the feet of young children who assembled to craft, read, cook and paint. Over the past few months, it knows the hands of the Bookworm team as a working space. It feels their hands. The shelves are called upon to produce something […]
Shelf of the Month: Peace Theme
Written by Deepali A new section in the library has been introduced at the beginning of this month called the ‘Shelf of the Month’. This shelf will have books based on a particular theme which will change every month. The theme for July was ‘Peace’ and what a selection of books…..The Big Book of Peace, […]
Bookworm Events Calendar July 2015
Culinary experiences at Summer Camp…
Written by Barkha The first week of the summer camp was themed around food. The week featured Goa, Maharashtra, Mexico, and West Bengal and finally ended with a restaurant set up by the children for their families. For the first day, the absolutely exciting part was when the children did some berry hunting and each […]
Tuesday at the beach…
Written by Barkha As part of the ‘Out and About Week’ today’s session we went to Miramar Beach. Before we started out we did some browsing books at Library on what we do at the beach, on fish, on sea animals, on waves and on all kinds of creatures around beaches like crabs. Looking at […]
Who can decorate the walls of the world better?
Who can decorate the walls of the world better than a butterfly ? Poem Avis Harley I have always loved this haiku for its simplicity and for the thoughts that linger. Who can decorate the walls of the world better, we might constantly ask. I find myself asking this question as I look around another […]
Summer Slides & Sea Saws
Research on reading achievement informs us that there is a significant loss of literacy during summer, impacting lower socio economic groups more than others, due to the presence of literacy resources and literacy engagement in the environment. Library programs rev up for the summer in serious attempts to combat this slide and at Bookworm, we […]
My Bookworm Inspiration
Written by Melcom When I joined bookworm, I was not perfect in my work. Indeed I used to make many mistakes in my work. I was really lost at times and not so disciplined in my work. But it is after meeting people like Sheena de Mello and Priya Naik at Bookworm, things began to […]
Drama Day 1
‘Early on a hot Sunday, five princesses and four princes set out across the kingdom of Bookworm to create their crowns, embellish their ornaments, listen to stories and figure out the process of finding a real princess! For — hours, we found ourselves atop horses, over peas, poring over books on space and watching a […]