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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 […]

Bindi Su & Friends….read their way across India

…and they’re off! The little ones who hopped aboard for the Read Your Way Across India week at Bookworm put their first footprint on the map! Where have you been this holiday? Lots of answers spanning across the state. Some, the globe. Where are you going now? And so… starting in our own state; Goa, […]