Watching them watching themselves
Eight sessions later, Alia Sinha engineered a miracle with a group ( 42 to be precise) of boys who find themselves in Std. 4 in St. Thomas Boys Primary School and suddenly realise that they are the seniors in a tiny primary school building. Alia was assigned a production which she accomplished with characteristic passion, […]
Keeping Still with Poetry
Now we will count to twelveand we will all keep still. Every outreach session with Bookworm now includes a poetry reading. We bring the same intensity of experience that we demand from story telling to poetry that also tells stories but more importantly demands of us to feel the stories that flow out of words. […]
The beef about Burger
“Burger”, our first Konkani story Read Aloud at Bookworm. A very private in-house reading session guided by Siddhi and Padma, Don Bosco College of Social Work interns. Unbeknownst to them, they are playing a wonderful role in immersing us with Konkani. As both of them sit together to figure out a session plan or read […]
Space and place matters
Worming our way to mature students and readers is our Library Coordinator Alia Sinha’s goal of 2015. Our argument for this proposed new trail is multi fold, but critical to the basis is that for those of us living between the pages of novels and textbooks and other less dangerous texts, is that young people […]
Growing our Banyan Tree
The room knows its users. Some months back it knew the hands and the feet of young children who assembled to craft, read, cook and paint. Over the past few months, it knows the hands of the Bookworm team as a working space. It feels their hands. The shelves are called upon to produce something […]
Story Grammar to explore stories
There is research evidence that a sense of structure of stories has a powerful impact on individuals’ expectations while reading stories, the processing of stories, retention and reproduction of content of stories. In brief, understanding story structure more thoroughly appears to help comprehension as well as writing. Both very valuable outcomes desired by the library […]
Look the Moon!
I overheard a question from a recent visitor to Bookworm, asking a new Bookworm team member if we read -aloud non-fiction texts and she said ” no”! I did not behead her or bring out my proverbial whip, but I chose to reflect ( the joys of middle aged, slow approaching wisdom) on how this […]
Libraries in Schools comes to Margao
Our presence in Margao has grown stronger with the welcome that Adarsh V V High School has showered upon the LiS program. Not only do the children await the weekly library class, we have a beautiful room, thanks to a timely investment by the Trustees and a hassle free time table thanks in no small […]
When Saras folded his way into our library
EIGHT library educators, obsessed with school lists, lending books in large quantities, setting grade wise objectives and gathering strength and energy for the academic year that will soon begin. Jewel rushed in to say, Saras is here. My group who are now so well expect the unexpected at Bookworm, looked bemused. I said, wait, we […]
St. Inez Concert Day
It has been 2 years since our MOP site on the St. Inez Bandh began and the children have grown in many ways. We chose to have a concert for the community and the program emerged after much heated discussion and decision making over which songs to include, which story to dramatise, which reading to […]