A Snowman in Goa?!
For The Snowman Story Book by Raymond Briggs; the lesson plan goes like this Game: Let’s play Ice and Melt. Whoops of joy on both sites, Tonca and Taleigao. Great fun and poses with the freeze motion. Even the bigger children have fun play acting and the grown men who play volley ball five feet […]
Helen is back!
Helen Hitchcock an old friend who extended support to Bookworm’s school book treasury to support a school in Mandrem in 2009, has been involved with Bookworm in many small and big ways since. We have not seen Helen over the past months and while we kept Helen on our mailing list and in our hearts […]
A Happy 8 Months at Tonca MOP
8 months at Tonca MOP! On the one hand it feels like it’s been longer than that; the book moments, the happy moments, the moments of connecting with the kids, the odd moments of frustration; they all seem too many for such a short amount of time. On the other hand, the year has flown […]
Biblioburro
We enlarged our copy of Biblioburro. This is a significant act for BW. We enlarge only those books that the team ( opinionated and outspoken!) agree upon. So when Jeannette Winter’s Biblioburro, a true story about Luis Soriano and Alpha and Beto made it to the ‘ blown up’ status the book itself begins to […]
Reading in the Park – Aldona
We planned and slotted a day for a RiP. RiPs at Bookworm do not mean anyone is dead or dying . A RiP is a life surging energising Reading in the Park initiative. If you have a park, we will read in it. This being the mission, we chose Aldona, our new village of adoption. […]
Who ya gonna call
With respect to Ray Parker Jr If there’s somethin’ strange in your LiS class Who ya gonna call Dr. Nandita If it’s somethin’ woerd an’ it don’t look good Who ya gonna call Dr. Nandita If it need some sense and it is so real Who ya gonna call Dr. Nandita and so we did. […]
Bookworm……decoded!
If you ever spend a day at Bookworm, you might feel the need to keep a dictionary close at hand. You’ll soon find that Bookworm talk is no ordinary speak. “What’s your RA selection?” “Who is the RP for MOP today?” “Is your LP done? What’s the Ext Act.?” ‘E, What’s your food idea for […]
Oral health – Mental health
At our Mobile Outreach Sites more than in our classrooms we get included into intimate details. We learn about children who are scurrying out to buy supari and others who just chewed ‘tabac’, some one who is experimenting with ‘beedi’ and despite our ever increasing pressures of library/ literacy work I felt we must get […]
Here a Narkasura.. there a Narkasura…
Everywhere over the past few weeks we have giant Narkasuras towering over us a we crouch down to read our story books or booktalk. It seemed organic to bring the Narkasura into the library program and we looked around for a book that could lead us to that theme and we were wanting 🙁 So, […]
Team Bookworm continues to learn
In our quest to learn more about children’s books, the team met on October 14th for a workshop to discuss illustrative techniques in ‘picture books’. Brilliantly chaired by Chetna and Elaine, the study material chosen was an article by Miriam Martinez And Janis M. Harmon titled ‘Picture/Text Relationships: An Investigation of Literary Elements in Picture […]