Hair Scare
One of the primary qualities of good stories is the doorways they provide. A doorway to go in and reflect and connect with self and then to go out and connect with other people. These synapses come to all who read. However, being adult I tend to seek these entry points for the children I […]
Another LiS School
Dayanand Arya High School, Neura has joined the LiS family. Today, the 10th of January, the red LiS van drove up the mud road in Neura, Ilhas Goa to begin another school library program. The program will be offered to DAHS every Saturday and will presently be in Grade 1 , 5, 6 and 7. […]
Current Openings at Bookworm – January 2014
Wanted graduates with a passion for education to work part time or full time in projects initiated by Bookworm. Email at careers@bookwormgoa.in or Call 0832 2451233 between 10.00 – 1.00 – 3.00 – 7.00 . Other openings for Summer of 2014 is available at https://www.bookwormgoa.in/bookworm/careers/
Bookworms at Kathavana, Children’s literature Festival by Azim Premji Foundation
Kathavana was imagined as a Children’s Literature Festival over 3 days in the heart of ‘old’ Bangalore. The Festival made efforts in programming to cover a wide range of dimensions of Literature from oral, performing arts, print and visual media. Authors and illustrators were invited to interact with children and conduct workshops. In addition there […]
The Games We Play…
Term 2 of the Libraries in Schools (LiS) program brings action packed classes. How one might ask? GAMES! [Not to say we haven’t had them since school began, but we’ve incorporated them with much more this term!] Who? and Where? In each of our schools, SEVEN of them! Games that are played before, after and […]
Library Without Walls
The monsoon season abated late in Goa this year. We said bye to our last monsoon shower in November. The mossy ‘angan’ began to dry out at St. Thomas Boys Primary School while the energy within the classroom was anything but drying out. The general feeling of wanting to get outdoors grew stronger every visit […]
Special Christmas Books
2013, I have squeezed in many different dimensions of work around books almost like Charlie Brown, I find two aspects have been central and they dominate my vision for work in 2014. Good books that encompass not just a story that remains central but also illustrations that dominate and provide a visual feast to my […]
Malli visits St. Thomas Girls Primary School(STGPS), Aldona
What did Malli do in STGPS? Was Malli a new student, the chief guest for the concert, the school inspector, the library teacher? Whos is Malli and why is she at STGPS ? Malli is a sweet little girl who went to STGPS to get some suggestions from the students there? Suggestions? What suggestions The […]
Hats turned into torn T-shirts
Do you know to make hats? How many types of hats you know to make? Hey ! Hey! My students in Kasturba Matoshri Schools(KMS) learnt 4 type of hats from ‘The Captain’s Hat Story’. Arvind Gupta’s book Ten Little Finger’s encourages children to read and make craft as well. Using paper folding techniques we decided […]
These are the gifts they bring…
It’s Christmas time. All through the school we work with there is the charge of festivity in the air. The tree of excitement includes some kids getting set for Christmas and all the merriment that comes with the season. Some others are getting ready to throw their hands up in the air and yell in […]