An Archaeologist at Bookworm
What makes an archaeologist dig and why ? This and other questions were answered and shared by Brian Wilson, a young, articulate, giving archaeologist at Bookworm on Friday 14th September. Brian is in Goa on a Full bright Fellowship ‘ doing a surface search’ and examining ceramic shards and pottery in Old Goa. He shared […]
Bookworm’s 7th Birthday
Another milestone, gone by. We have not only survived this year, but the energy and support was so thick, you could touch it. Children between the ages of 1 – 14 crowded together to wish Bookworm as the worm turned 7 and we had a party! It is always heartening to realise that a community […]
Story time at NAB, St. Cruz
A wet day in August and I get to share it with my friend and gifted teacher Elaine. We set off for the center both knowing we are reading “Davy’s Scary Journey’ a book that earlier in the month hit some of our key indicators ✓ Available at Bookworm in large print – large format […]
Things you can do with Grandfathers Stick – a Tulika book
MY GRANDFATHER’S STICK Story : Nandini NayarPictures : Kshitiz Sharma A MOP session at Chimbel, our site that teaches us something every time we read aloud.We have now learnt that a bi lingual story allows the children to read aloud one part of the text while we read the other.The Bi lingual book allows children […]
Learning Lessons
I have been thinking hard about teacher education, teacher framework, teacher training , teachers as both people and professionals. At Bookworm, we struggle to be educators who both understand the pedagogy and the content of literature based literacy instruction and the knowing that we are not part of the system yet work within it to […]
Braille books from UK to Goa thanks to Clear Vision Children’s Braille Library
From the time we included NAB Santa Cruz in our Mobile Outreach Project scope, we have been thinking, worrying and wondering how we will get tactile/braille books. 3 -4 of the children in group are severely visually impaired and read braille. So this became important. We checked for resources within the country and none really […]
Teacher, mhaka test di !
Chimbel, a MOP site that overwhelms and excites me. We are still finding our feet, after close to 45 odd sessions over 7 months. We don’t know the demographic, the population, the profiles, the learning levels, what we do know is there is a need. 100 odd children demanding story and books and even 7 […]
School Book Treasury – Intervention begins at Auxilium High School, Caranzalem
For the Academic year 2012- 13, our goal is to pre select 3 schools ( Std 3) and do a weekly story session in the classroom to bring children to love books and also to get a sense of how this impacts reading motivation and literacy. We began with the Auxilium High School in Caranzalem […]
Who loves the RAIN
Thursday 28th June,2012 – a wet day in Panjim, a seemingly ordinary monsoon day and then it rained in my soul! Varsha Amonkar a parent and professional who has only observed Bookworm work from afar, has been pursuing me to visit a The National Association for the Blind, Goa state branch in Santa Cruz, that […]
About the newsletter
Over the past 2 – 3 years, Elaine and I felt that we needed a new medium to share what we were doing. We felt handicapped as we did not have the language. We know very little about the media of technology, so little that it could fit on a dessert spoon ! It was […]