Children’s First MLMW Experience
Children are children and everything and anything is an experience for them. Being a teacher gets the privilege and joy to see children react in different ways. Bookworm conducts it’s Libraries In Schools programme (LiS) once a week to Mae De Deus school, Aldona. The children are always happy to see, greet and meet the […]
Series of Fortunate Events
2018 for Bookworm has been a year of many, many events. Some of which we engineer in our manic lets-make-a-difference kind of way and others have happened to us. In a conversation on our meeting-rug, there was a cloud of despondency around us. We had just experienced serious illness in one of our most loved […]
Jumble 2018
The concept of the Jumble Sale was new to me till I joined Bookworm. The idea that we could ask people to donate their junk, their discards, and that we could sell it to raise funds was very novel for me. In 2014, when I joined Bookworm, I was overwhelmed by all the work that […]
Aldona has a BookStop!
It all started last year (late 2016) when Sujata asked me to find out how much it would cost to make a small shelf for books, which could be placed or hung in a noticeable, accessible spot. The shelf would have a metal frame and a couple of wooden shelves with some material to cover […]
Mae De Deus High School Library Inauguration
The picturesque island of Corjuem hosts the only co-ed high school in Aldona – Mae-de-Deus High School. Bookworm has been conducting sessions under its LiS (Libraries in Schools) Program in this school since September 2015. At the end of every academic year since then, the Principal and teachers of this school have always offered some […]
Library Report Card for Libraries in Schools
This is first part of the Data Science blog posts which are coming up over the next few months Over the course of the last few years of running the Libraries in Schools program, one thing we have been constantly doing is to improve and incorporate innovations using technology to manage our school data. In […]
An Open House
Ruth Krauss in her book Open House for Butterflies illustrated with Maurice Sendak writes, Everybody should be quiet Near a little stream and listen Today, I had that joy, not near a stream but within the library – my idea of a stream and I listened to the excited voices of 45 school teachers and […]
In and Out of Aldona Schools
At the start of this academic year 2016-17, the Bookworm Team were all set to continue in two schools in Aldona – the first was one of our oldest LiS schools, St. Thomas Boys’ Primary School or STBPS and the second was one of the newest LiS schools, Mae-de-Deus High School or MdD. As usual, […]
Year end presentation at Mae-de-Deus High School, Corjuem
The end-of-the-year feedback presentation with the Principal and teachers of Mae-de-Deus High School, Corjuem, Aldona, Goa, was scheduled for the 12th of April, 2016. She had hinted at some kind of felicitation in front of the whole school, but no specific details were provided. Niju and Krupa collected me on their way from Panjim to […]
St. Thomas Boys Primary School Std III – Choral reading
Written by Flavia At most of our Monday-morning LiS meetings, the group discusses various methods to get kids more interested in reading. We know that the kids enjoy browsing through books and selecting one to take home. However, only a few actually read their books – some are able to tell the story from […]