Stir it Up (Day 4)
Day 4 and we’ve got a comfortable rhythm going for the workshop. Every morning, the kids come in and the boys take great pleasure in their moments of running around burning the excess energy and the girls; too dignified for this sit around talking about what they’ve done the previous evening. All this until they […]
Stir It Up….and make some noise too! (Day 3)
Day 3….and there’s lots of excitement! Word in the library is that big bars of chocolate are set on the work spaces to be used today! They’re wondering……hoping…..little fingers crossed! And so ofcourse, that was the first question they asked us. We figured, why take away the suspense so soon?! “Maybe…” we tell them. They’re […]
Stir it up (Day 2)
Day 2….we’re all set to go! The kids are waiting to step into the cars. We’re off to the market! “What are we going to do at the market?!” With shopping lists in hand, and 2 groups made; the veggies group and the fruit group; we set off to come back with the items on […]
Stirrrrrrr it up (Day 1)
Summer….fun….food….mangoes too?! 🙂 Excited kids for sure! And thus was day 1 of Stir It Up (cooking workshop) happening in the library this week. 13 excited kids all coming with their own vocabulary and observed and perhaps inherited cooking styles at the same table. The workshop started off with the kids giving us words from their […]
They played…with clay!
Dirt under your nails….a parents’ worst nightmare! But I have a feeling that on this particular day; following Bookworm’s second summer workshop- Clay Play with Milan Khanolkar; even the Mamas and Papas didn’t mind the dirt on their kids’ hands! In skilled hands, the session started off with Milan simply telling the kids to….MAKE something! […]
Art…became Craft!
Art becoming craft….colour, fun, creativity, expression. Rather a good way to start the 2013 summer vacation wouldn’t you say?! The kids at the first of Bookworm’s summer workshops; Art besomes Craft; certainly seemed to think so! A workshop that happened on the 1st and 2nd of April, Art becomes Craft aimed at providing the kids […]
Eggggggciting News….and stories too!
Ahhhhhh…Saturday morning! And what better way to kick off the Easter weekend than an egg hunt?! And so it was! Bookworm and a bunch of excited kids headed off to F.L. Gomes Park in Campal for a morning of fun in the sun! Starting off with a story (but ofcourse!) called Easter Egg […]
Mumbai Mobile Creches Exposure Visit to Bookworm
Mumbai Mobile Creches is a group that sets up centres for children in rooms on construction sites. They have a creche for the below threes, a preschool for the three to five year olds, a bridge course to support older children enter the local municipal school, and an after-school programme to assist children with their […]
School Book Treasury sees the end of the academic year.
The School Book Treasury Annual Report Bookworm supports reading resources in the community and in schools. The School Book Treasury is a program that has been setting up classroom libraries and is now in its 5th year. The main focus is to provide age and reading-level appropriate material, in the form of fiction and non-fiction […]
The Sweetest Mango at Cacra
Tuesday….Cacra MOP! Lesson planning is done! Betty, Sujata and I discussed what was going to be done. Edy sir is ready with the van loaded, books in, stationary packed and a big book just waiting to be read. Today we had Isa and Flavia who visited the Cacra site with us. As the van pulled […]