Year end presentation at Mae-de-Deus High School, Corjuem
The end-of-the-year feedback presentation with the Principal and teachers of Mae-de-Deus High School, Corjuem, Aldona, Goa, was scheduled for the 12th of April, 2016. She had hinted at some kind of felicitation in front of the whole school, but no specific details were provided. Niju and Krupa collected me on their way from Panjim to […]
Bookworm Summer Camp – First Week
We started our Summer Camp from the 11th of April with the first themed week ‘Out & About’. The title spoke volumes and after careful planning, we came up with an itinerary. The plan was to have a totally outdoorsy week. We started with the Bhagwan Mahaveer Children’s park. Nine children and four adults were […]
‘Good Dog Carl’ and our special lending library
Written by Amrita I came out of the metro station, checking my watch. It was already 4 pm. I needed to reach home, as my children would be home anytime now. My mobile rang and the screen displayed ‘Home’. So, I knew my children were already home! I walked faster, even as I picked up […]
The Joy of Writing Well
The Joy of Writing Well: two-session workshop to strengthen student writing with emphasis on fool-proof tips from Nancie Atwell’s “Lessons that Change Writers.” The Workshop will incorporate suggestions and hands-on solutions to common writing issues by giving an oppurtunity to students to experience the joy of writing well by introducing and sharing the qualities that […]
My First MOP (Mobile Outreach Program) Experience
It was Melcom who suggested that I lead the session at Cacra. I agreed- though inside me there was the doubtful- tense me as usual, wondering if I would be able to pull it through. But sure, I wanted to try; so I said “Yes”. Having made up my mind, my next question was…., what […]
Bookworm Events – April 2016
Vivid personalities…
It is the end of March and everybody is busy with their agenda. People are worrying about the financial year end, mothers are worried about how to keep their children busy throughout the summer vacations, teachers are busy with exams and paper corrections and the children are busy planning how to spend two glorious months […]
Adarsh concert
As the academic year draws to a close, the LiS team plans end-of-the-year activities at the schools in which they have conducted sessions. This year, for a change, the Team asked the students of classes 6A, 6B, 5A and 5B from Adarsh V V High School, Margao, to let us know what they thought of […]
World Poetry Day Celebrations
The past few months we have been exploring Poetry at Bookworm. For brief moments of time, during our weekly team meetings, we suspend everything to allow words, line by line to unfold and overtake our senses. We seep ourselves into the poem being read, asking sometimes for it to be read again, or passed around, […]
Biblioburro
Biblioburro- reading the title makes one immediately wonder what this book is about. The word Biblioburro is unfamiliar. The title makes you think, it drives you to your imaginative world. Biblioburro is written by Jeanette Winter and it is a true story of Columbia. It is a story of Luis who started with a travelling […]