Stories from Pratham Books Champions: October 2014

Thursday, 16 October 2014

Pratham Books Champion : Storytree

Storytree celebrated International Literacy Day at Sophia School, Old Airport Road, Bangalore with Takloo. This story was sent by Nandini Basu.

Session conducted on : 6th September

Number of kids : 124

Number of sessions : 1

Language the session was conducted in : English

The primary students of Sophia School gathered on the terrace of the school building to hear the story about a smart little boy. They were eager to know who was this boy and what was his name. Just then, popped out Takloo from my bag. A Takloo made out of egg shell.

As I told them about the beautiful trees in Takloo's village, several of them described the different kinds of trees that they had seen in their villages. We also looked around for the trees visible from the terrace and tried naming a few. There were squirrels sprinting from one tree to another but difficult to capture in lens. The kids thoroughly enjoyed the illustrations.

I stopped telling the story when Takloo's family has a big bagful of salt and don't know what to do. I asked the kids if they had any solution. They came up with good ideas but Takloo emerged the smartest.

When I finished telling the story, one child even said that next time he visited his village, he would read out the Takloo story to the elders sitting under the tamarind tree. Another child said, he would teach the non-school going children in his area to read and write. That's the power of a book!

Thank you, Pratham Books, for this initiative.

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Thank you Storytree and Nandini for spreading the joy of reading!

In its third edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 1300+ storytellers who conducted 1500+ storytelling sessions. More than a 1000 steps towards a 'Reading India'!

What started as a small step by Pratham Books to spread the joy of reading has become a movement. In 2012, Pratham Books initiated the One Day-One Story initiative on the occasion of International Literacy Day . We will be sharing the stories of all our volunteer storytellers (Pratham Books Champions) through our blog.

View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2014.

This blog contains stories sent in by all our champions. Browse through the blog for more stories. You can also go through the tags on the right side of the blog to find stories happening in your own city.

Note : If you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.

Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Pratham Books Champion : Pratham Assam

In the run up to the 'One Day, One Story' initiative, we reached out to some of the partner organizations we work with. Abhijit Chakraborty from Pratham Assam agreed to facilitate a few storytelling sessions through Pratham Assam. Pratham started working in the state of Assam in 2005.

Key programmes across the state include - Read India , Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE), Vocational Training, Digital Classrooms.

Session conducted on : 6th September
Number of kids : 200
Number of sessions : 5
Language the session was conducted in : Assamese

Robin Saikia sent us the following report about the storytelling sessions that took place through Pratham Assam.

On 6th September, we (the district team, Lakhimpur, Assam) conducted the 'One Day One Story' campaign in the following schools :

1. SCHOOL NAME:- MAGNUWA L.P. SCHOOL, MAGNUWA

GHANA KANTA SAIKIA, DISTRICT CO-ORDINATOR, LAKHIMPUR

ROBIN SAIKIA

RPA, LEARN OUT OF THE BOX, LAKHIMPUR.

2. SCHOOL NAME: SARUKATHANI L.P. SCHOOL, SARUKATHANI

RAJU BORAH

B.R.G , LAKHIMPUR

3. SCHOOL NAME:- KACHARI PATHER L.P. SCHOOL

BHASKAR GOGOI

B.R.G, LAKHIMPUR

4. SCHOOL NAME:- NIMURI M.E. SCHOOL, SIMALUGURI

DWIPEN GOGOI

F.C CO-ORDINATOR, LAKHIMPUR

5. SCHOOL NAME:- LOKESHWAR KAKATY L.P. SCHOOL

BIDYUT NEOG,

BRG, LAKHIMPUR

Different activities of our campaign were:

1. Warm up Activity
2. A speech about literacy day delivered by the head master of schools

3. Storytelling (Name of book : Takloo, the Little Salt Seller)

4. A small drama acted out by students based on the above story + some students share other stories they also know.

5. Requesting teachers comment on postcards about the literacy day. Teachers gave us dull support during the campaign. Students also enjoyed each and every event interestingly.

More then 200 students were impacted by the programme in our district. The session was conducted in Assamese.

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Thank you Pratham Assam for spreading the joy of reading!

In its third edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 1300+ storytellers who conducted 1500+ storytelling sessions. More than a 1000 steps towards a 'Reading India'!

View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2014.

Note : If you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.

Pratham Books Champion : BrainSmart

Shailja Shaily's sends us a note about her storytelling session her daughter conducted on behalf of BrainSmart. The session was supported by Shailija - a mother of 2. Brainsmart is a brain development program for kids. Brainsmart focuses on life skills, how to be happy, expressing our thoughts with confidence and learning with fun through 5 sense learning.

Session conducted on : 7th September

Number of kids : 22
Number of sessions : 1

Language the session was conducted in : Hindi and English

Photographs of another sessions conducted at BrainSmart Mumbai, with activities like

* ABCR (any body can read),

*drama based on Takloo,

*finding & dramatization of emotions such as happiness, angry, sad, surprised etc from the Takloo book,

*colouring of pots with different designs, etc.

Shailja also said, "This time, the champion is Adhya Bhatnagar. She is a writer, an avid reader & a great story teller, a 9 year old girl, my daughter. The entire session and activities done, supported by me."

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Thank you Adhya, Shailja and BrainSmart for spreading the joy of reading!

In its third edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 1300+ storytellers who conducted 1500+ storytelling sessions. More than a 1000 steps towards a 'Reading India'!

View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2014.

Note : If you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.

Monday, 13 October 2014

Pratham Books Champion : Poonam Shenoy

Session conducted on : 16th September
Number of kids : 20
Number of sessions : 1
Language the session was conducted in : English

Poonam Shenoy writes...

It is a beautiful journey which you started and hopefully we are the messengers. For me, I could not get a lot of kids of a younger age group so I turned this story telling session into a case study. I was shocked at the way the kids listened and we had Q&A session at Baldwin Residential School. What made it interesting was a simple story turned into an even more beautiful idea. The kids called it a story of turning SETBACK into OPPORTUNITY. Of course every one wanted to hold the book and asked me where it would be available. Finally an Indian Book is giving a full on takkar to the international books.

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Thank you Poonam for spreading the joy of reading !

In its third edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 1300+ storytellers who conducted 1500+ storytelling sessions. More than a 1000 steps towards a 'Reading India'!

View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2014.

Note : If you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.

Pratham Books Champion : Sanu Bhandari

The following story was sent to us by Sanu Bhandari.

Session conducted on : 7th September
Number of kids :
Number of sessions : 10
Language the session was conducted in : Nepali

Sanu writes,

I organised the event on the 7th of september in my school (Shree Indreswori Higher Secondary School, Melamchi, Sindupalchowk, Nepal) through grade 1 to grade 10. I had different activities for different grades.

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Thank you for spreading the joy of reading!

In its third edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 1300+ storytellers who conducted 1500+ storytelling sessions. More than a 1000 steps towards a reading revolution.

View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2014.

Note : If you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.

Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Pratham Books Champion : Lohit Libraries

Satyanarayanan from Lohit Libraries sent us the following pictures of the session conducted at Blooming Buds Public School, Namsai, Arunchal Pradesh.

Number of children : Approximately 32

Thank you Blooming Buds Public School, Namsai) for spreading the joy of reading!

In its third edition of the 'One Day - One Story' campaign, Pratham Books was joined by 1300+ storytellers who conducted 1500+ storytelling sessions. More than a 1000 steps towards a 'Reading India'!

View more pictures from the International Literacy Day Celebrations held in 2014.

Note : If you want to be a Pratham Books Champion and join us on our journey of getting 'a book in every child's hand', write to us at champions(at)prathambooks(dot)org.