Feeling Picture Books
The place of Picture Books in a library collection is a contested one. Children who belong to ‘hard’ levelled reading programs learn to use the Picture Book as a marker of fluency. Parents who grew up before the big boom of the Picture Book market , within the country and globally, see it quite like […]
The Upside Down Bookworm
Perhaps, all library spaces get sectioned and organised into genres/ categories/ age groups/ quiet and active zones and what not. Bookworm has been no different, in that, through out time, given the space available we have played around with organisation and turned upside down, right side up and down again. We had another topsy turvy […]
Teacher Training Workshop at NIE
Shortly after the Ganesh break, Bookworm was requested to conduct a workshop for the Preschool Teacher Trainees of Nirmala Institute of Education. Titled ‘Read Aloud: An important component of balanced literacy’, the workshop was designed to highlight the ‘WHY’, ‘HOW’ and the ‘WHAT TO Dos’ of reading aloud in a preschool class. The session commenced […]
May Events
Updating Literacy Knowledge: beyond the abc of writing
A participatory workshop to understand how knowledge is organised in written texts, looking at the various forms of presenting knowledge visually in writing. The goal is to work with educators and use this exploration to sensitise selves about the varying contextual needs of literacy knowledge and education. The workshop focuses on how literacy is concerned […]
Parent and child mornings
Every Wednesday at Bookworm, parents and child (below 3 years) are welcome to an interactive session designed to stimulate langauge and creative activities. Sessions are facilitated by Noreen Carneiro, and are themed around books, music, art and play and involve actions, singing, messing about and story time. Sessions run from 10.00 am – 11.30 am, […]
Family book treasure
Bookworm is pleased to offer a box of books to families that live out of Panjim city area. This request has come from families that cannot access the library on a regular basis but want to have books for all to read and enjoy. A box of 30 books on a monthly lending basis is […]
Bookworm…an image from Flickr.com
Claudia1967 [http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudia1967/349173566/] gave permission to Bookworm to reproduce this interesting image: Thanks Claudia! bookworm (bʊk’wûrm’) – (noun) bibliophile, avid reader and lover of books. Bookworm may also refer to:(insect) a popular generalization for any insect which supposedly bores through books Blogged with the Flock Browser Tags: bookworm, image
Puppetry workshop (September 2008)
Bookworm, announces a teachers puppetry workshop – Hands On Minds On – on Friday, September 19 ( 2.30 – 5.30 pm) and Saturday, September 20 ( 9.30 – 5.30 pm), 2008 at Clube Tennis de Gaspar Dias, Miramar. The workshop is designed for teachers in preschool and primary settings to encourage language learning in the classroom. […]
Goanet header…
Goanet, the online network, offered its support to Bookworm, by placing this header on all messages going out via their network, for awhile in October 2007: Support growing the reading habit among Goa’s next generation of achievers Bookworm Library and Magazine Bluebelle, Tamba Colony, St Inez, Goa Contacts: Tel: +91 9823222665 Email: bookworm_goa@yahoo.com Blogged with […]