With Light and Shadows They Did Play…
Shadows and Light. If you’re wondering how a theme like this would pan out, here’s a look at what Isa pulled out of the bag for this session. Warm up! Shake it out! Tell me you name…with flourish is how we do it in this game! Do a twirl, or hop around, wave your […]
We started Summer….Baking, Shaking…and Reading!
We kicked off our Summer Program with food ! Of course the session was led by me, food lover that I am and evidently tucking it in to go by my returner Eric’s comment. Eric was at Summer Program 2013 and it was joyful to have him back until he looked at me and said […]
Bookworm at Xavier Center for Historical Research ( XCHR)
Xavier Center for Historical Research ( XCHR) organised a Diwali Camp for children last week and invited Bookworm to conduct two micro sessions on Stories. The brief was brief. Something about stories/ either reading or other to get children interested in books. Briefs of this nature tell us two things. One is that organisers have […]
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 […]
Workshop for Teachers at Gurukul Academy, Ponda
Gurukul Academy is keen to grow their library program. Keen enough to ask us consistently to work with their teachers, to borrow boxes of books, to ask us to train their teachers on library planning and story telling. So over two Saturdays in July – August, BW team set off . I find trainings outside BW […]
Report on Library Workshop in Dhadgaon
Bookworm was invited to to conduct a Library Training Workshop for the Bal Mitras under the QUEST (Quality Education Support Trust) . Bookworm represented by Sujata, Milan, Niju and Eva (RPs) conducted the workshop for 2. 5 days for 17 Bal Mitras and 7 others (representatives of Janseva Mandal and Janarth Adivasi Vikas Sanstha, QUEST […]
Gyandeep Teacher Training @ Bookworm
Teacher Training, exposure and creative learning opportunities have been at the heart of Bookworm activities since inception. Our friends and colleagues at Sethu work with a similar vision, recognising that refreshing teachers and nurturing them is a significant way to enrich the learning practices on the ground. I have been supporting Gyandeep , the Preschool […]
Our tree is coming to life from the roots up.
Written by Eva We started thinking of this project by wanting to do a collaborative patchwork so Sujata suggested us doing a tree, knowing that would be a meaningful theme. Trees have the quality of creating small universes, they bring earth and sky together. She was also the one who suggested a banyan tree, having […]
Teacher Training
Reading is a basic skill. Learning to read and reading to learn is how we understand more about our selves and our world. The process of reading is a complex one, the methods are varied and the quest to support all children in this process is an upper most vision of everyone engaged in education. […]
Stitching Stories
5 days have gone by and we have stitched and talked and sang songs and discovered each other in wondrous ways, because we worked with our hearts and our hands. I am convinced that stitching brings out the best in us as people and that is coming together in the collaborative quilt. We got everyone […]