Story-book-art continues
Blog post by Barkha Sharda The second day at ‘Story-book-art’ was an even more interesting day than the first. We started out by reading an ABC Sticker book, ‘Chicka Chicka Sticka Sticka’ by Bill Martin Jr and John Archambault. This initiated our discussion on trees and the association with trees. We discussed the fruits that […]
Pre-school mornings are back
Blog post by Deepali Correya Come June and after a two week hiatus, our Pre-School Mornings have started. Every Saturday morning is kept aside especially for all the pre-school cutie pies. We have different themes based on an age appropriate story and exciting games and cute little songs and art and craft and maybe sometimes […]
ART ROOM AT BOOKWORM
Blog post by Barkha Sharda Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I’ll rise. -Maya Angelou Vaishnavi, like the Pied Piper brought in a lovely bunch of children as she made her way to Bookworm. Our first session for ‘Art Room’ (a free art programme […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Piece by Piece….Our Tree Grew
“When life gives you scraps….make quilts!” …and that is just what we did! A year ago, we started at the roots….and worked our way up to the sky. And ‘sew’ it is, that a year later, our banyan tree is complete! Threads of many colours, people of different ages and people with varying skills and […]
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 […]