Raising a Reader In-house
It is the mission of the work I choose to do, to raise readers. I want to excite them with the possibilities of the book and the story within. I want to ignite the spark of imagination, reflection and learning that comes from good books and I invest enormous amounts of energy in doing this, […]
LiS at Sharon School, Mulund Mumbai
Goa to Bombay ( okay, read Mumbai) is where the Library in School Program has a new site. It all began some months ago when Sharon English School, Mulund, Mumbai showed an interest in how LiS functions and how we could share our pedagogy and material with their teachers. Since the vision and mission of […]
Dolphin Talk
The Indo Pacific Humpback Dolphin is not a strange mammal in our world. Sightings, advertisements, and talk about dolphin cruises have been heard by the MOP children, so it was a relatively simple exercise to glide the dolphin into our conversation of the week across MOP Sites. Krystal found a video on dolphin behaviour that […]
Scrambling with scrabble
I took the scrabble tiles with me on my Thursday visit to the Chimbel Community Library. Such joy to see Faizal come up to help unload the van and Deepak and Aftab playing cricket assuring me they will come to the library, lest I ask . We went into the room that seems to shrink […]
Mobile Outreach Progam Junior at St. Inez – Stitching, Stories and more…
St.Inez site with the little ones is building on emergent literacy skills and language quite powerfully. No sooner does the mat get laid out and the box of books appear and one can sense the presence of the little tots, slowly making their way to the mat. They approach hesitantly not sure who the Resource […]
The Clown of God and the Bookworms Met St. Michael.
Our Summer Calendar schedule had us all planning to go visit St. Michael – now, he resides in the beautiful church of Taleigao 150 metres from the Library and his garden and house are one of great potential for bookworms. We aimed to have fun ( but, ofcourse) and we aimed to read a […]
We started Summer….Baking, Shaking…and Reading!
We kicked off our Summer Program with food ! Of course the session was led by me, food lover that I am and evidently tucking it in to go by my returner Eric’s comment. Eric was at Summer Program 2013 and it was joyful to have him back until he looked at me and said […]
Sharada Mandir School batch of 1986 supports Bookworm
Data at the end of this academic year put our ‘unreturned’ MIA books at 405 ! This is significant but must also be seen in light of more than 12000 books rotated in 1 academic year in 8 intervention schools. We recognise that a library program needs replenishment and refreshment. Our work is blessed, it […]
Bookworm partners with Sethu for Autism awareness event
It all began with a request for Bookworm to participate in Sethu‘s Autism Awareness Week event at the Garica d’ Orta Park, Panjim. It was hardly a blue suggestion, and one that required an affirmative response. So, I set to work , thinking of how we could participate and keep reading central. This should be […]
QUEST visits Bookworm
Mid March and Bookworm had visitors. 5 people from QUEST an organisation that works with learning improvement in Thane Dt of Maharashtra visited Bookworm. It always is a powerful reminder that the work we are doing in our small patch of earth is important enough for people to come and observe and learn from. We […]