To Market! To Market!
Day 3 of Summer Workshops….And we’re off to the market! Shopping lists in hand and a plan of action for the ingredients in mind….we set off! “Look! What’s that?!” “Does anyone know what that is??” “Have you seen this before?” “Bai! Tu kittem ghetelem?” “Teacher! Vegetables! There are tomatoes!” “Yes darling, vegetables! Do you […]
A Summer’s Day….With Tales and Trains!
I love trains! And I love summer! And I love books! In a nutshell, all these things put together with a bunch of happy, energetic and excited kids, and you have day 2 of our summer program. ‘Let’s Go!’ was today’s theme. And these were the very same words we kept hearing over and over […]
LiS-ten to a story! LiS-ten to a song!
(Posted by Nagappa Lamani) ‘I know an old lady who swallowed a fly, I don’t know why she swallowed a fly, perhaps she’ll die’. The notes and the tunes of guitar went so smoothly that there was complete peace in the classroom. Initially, they were all very quiet and listening to the song and the […]
Stories Are Our ‘Colour’
A Wednesday morning means that I’ll either be in Auxilium Carona, or Kasturba Matoshri. Today, I’m in Kasturba Matoshri High School (KMS). I’m taking the 5th std class after a while. Since they come back riled up and excitable after recess, I decided to make them go through a serious of actions as a game, […]
Welcome to Our World…
As an organization, we are small and yet, we know that we achieve a great many things given all constraints. It is always heartening to know that our work is being followed and recognized by other individuals and organizations who work in the field. In the last month, we’ve had a number of visitors, from […]
“Teacher, I’ll read to you!”
A busy Wednesday. Many stories already; not all from a storybook, a number from the kids in Bookworm’s LiS classes. More stories are to come. Today is Tonca MOP. The space that we usually use has been taken over for Mahashivratri celebrations the next day. A warning bell goes off in my head immediately; ‘Will […]
A New Kind of Library Class
(posted by Sapphira Gomes) The day I came to know that I would visit and observe a library class as part of Bookworm team work I thought it would be a huge library room with many books where I had to maintain silence, the books you take to read you must read quietly, no talking, […]
Tell Me You Dreams, And I’ll Tell You Mine…
Of late, and quite by chance, I’ve been doing a number of books that in some way or the other brought in the component of ‘dreams’. Antonio’s Lucky Day, A Letter for Amy, Across the Stream, are some of the books that have made dreams the focus of discussion at many different times and in […]
A Day with Thathu…
Friday. St. Thomas Girls Primary School, Aldona. It’s a writing week in LiS schools. This means that our focus for the extension activity is to facilitate the kids to produce text on their own. For this particular class in Std. 3, I have (for some unapparent reason) chosen to do Days with Thathu. This is […]
Dr. Good Book is doing the rounds…
I like books, you like books Board books, Big books, Picture books, If it’s torn and worn or rift apart too, You know what you have to do. … this has been the song for the week gone by. In the weeks gone by, as the process of book-goes-out-book-book comes-in carries on, more and more, […]