Bookworm Trust

Writing stories

Written by Barkha On Friday in Std. 4 at STGPS, we tried to write stories based on ‘The Dot’ by Peter Reynolds along with key concepts from one of four books. These books were ‘Line and Circle’ by Radhika Menon (Tulika), ‘Little blue and Little Yellow’ by Leo Leonni (Harper Collins),’ Ish’, sequel to ‘The […]

Que Sera Sera…

Written by Barkha. Que Sera Sera, Whatever will be will be- The future’s not ours to see, Que Sera Sera… My mother has been a teacher for as long as I can remember. I also remember never wanting to step into her shoes knowing how much I struggled through school and feeling that I was […]

LiS ( Libraries in Schools) is the way, I go to school !

Written by Liza The roads of Aldona I just don’t know-a! When I’m looking at a pretty street That’s when three or four of them just meet So I must think with all my might Was it here that I had to turn right? Which ever way I turn in Aldona, LiS is the way […]

Jumbled UP

Written by Megha I entered my first ever jumble sale with high expectations. We had put in weeks and weeks of work and sorting and pricing and re-pricing and transporting all our donated items. Which came in abundance, thanks to all those people who supported us and donated things they no longer needed. I was […]

Our Jumble Sale featured in Gomantak Times

Bookworm’s fundraising is featured on first page of Gomantak Times on 2nd February 2015. Our next fundraising event is in Aldona on the 8th of February 2015 (Sunday) at the Aldona Institute for raising money towards Alban Couto Library Project in Aldona.

Raising A Community of Readers

Bookworm through the Alban Couto Library Program‘s support in Aldona supports 612 school students in Aldona between Stds 1 – 5 in 4 schools.  Students are immersed in the practice of a library program on a weekly basis, continue to await the sessions with great anticipation and are demonstrating shifts in their language comprehension and […]

Print in the Classroom

Children extract meaning from their environment through signs. Although they are not actually reading at an early age (Stahl & Murray, 1993), visually distinctive environmental print (product labels, restaurant signs, street signs) help children to understand their environment, become involved in it, and locate particular services and activities for future occasions. Research has shown that  […]

Who supports Whom

Administering our Libraries in Schools program is not a routine task. I subscribe to the anonymous idiom , “God is in the detail “ but there may be some who think it is the devil!  Each LiS Class has both back end and onsite documentation and recording. These administrative tasks have been typically handed to […]