Children’s Day at our Community Library
On 14th November, we celebrated Children’s day with the children from Bethesda Life Center by doing what they love doing the best- a Drama. The story chosen for the session was The Great Goat Chase by Tony Bonning, a story filled with histrionics and great pictures to support them. We started the session by singing […]
Visit to our Mala Library
When we were shifting to our new place in Mala, the children from the Bethesda Life Center, Santa Cruz, were very curious to know as to why we were moving to a new place. When I told them that it was so because this space was bigger, and that this place used to be a […]
Art Attack in Chimbel
Written by Velanky and Pranita The Bookworm van travels to the Chimbel community library thrice a week as part of the Mobile Outreach Program (MOP). Children usually have read aloud sessions during these three days. But this pattern was interrupted in August when Sujata had an innovative idea of having […]
Book Browsing at our Community Library
Written by Stephie and Velanky In early October, a time when Goa usually receives very little rain, we set off for Cacra, a site where we have MOP (Mobile Outreach program) sessions twice a week. While going down the slope we could feel the breeze picking up and the sky turning gloomier. The sea waves […]
The Quilt
A quilt is often made up of remnant scraps stitched together and in that emerges a new object of beauty! It could not be more symbolic than this for me on the 20th day of July, 2018. I have been feeling like a scrap, dragging myself to complete tasks that should have been wrapped up […]
Being Fired, not hired!
At Bookworm Trust we make a concerted effort to keep our blog posts current and updated, even if this means wielding my mighty cursor and shaming and naming people to write down reflective pieces to share ! Yes, irony aside I am often determined to post as freshly as we can because everyday there is […]
Motivating Independent Reading
In the month of December, Bookworm’s search and find book My Letters My words was working well with the younger children at the Bethesda Life Center, a MOP site that we visit once a week. We felt we must start some structured literacy activity work with the seniors so that they too could work on […]
Evidence in our community library
“You were selling clothes at the sale, I saw you! “ “ No bags, no miss? I saw you selling bags. “ “ Nazmeen miss was selling bags, Sujata miss was selling clothes “ These are the comments that greeted me today at our Chimbel community library as I walked in on a wet rainy […]
My date with Alice in Wonderland
Written by Shirley Miranda Bookworm invited me to do a Read Aloud for the Mobile Outreach Program at Cacra village. I was given a pop-up book of Alice in Wonderland by Robert Sabuda, and Stephie, Manjita and I made plans to have a tea party at the end of the session. With great enthusiasm, we […]
Writing Workshop at Chimbel
A three-day summer workshop was held for the children in Chimbel. When Terence asked me to do something for the seniors, I was quite hesitant. But he said he believed I could do it, and hence I took it up. I’ve always loved writing, and I decided to do a simple creative writing workshop with […]