Booklings Effort Dec 2013 | Page 4

Booklings Effort 4 Introduction This Magazine consists of articles about famous stories, tales and books. These articles are written by the members of Booklings/Book Club. This Magazine is published to inculcate the habit of reading in children and youth. This habit is lost in this new generation and we are trying to promote the habit of reading through this magazine. What is Booklings? Booklings is a book club where children from ages 6 – 15 discuss various aspects of books, authors etc. We also take a book from the club. We read it and think about the various aspects of that book. We also do various activities, play games etc. Through these activities, we try to promote the habit of reading. What happens in a typical week of book club? The week starts by asking the password of the week (). Once This Password Is a Riddle Which Usually Teaches the Children of Book Club a New Word everyone guessed the password and was eagerly waiting for to start the day, we heard a brilliant story on why out city was named Bangalore (Every Week a Story Is Told by the Teachers in Book Club). After that we all decided to make our personal Booklings card, everyone designed their own cards by drawing a picture of their favourite fantasy character (Every Week the Teachers Conduct a Fun Activity). The game of the week was “Taboo" in which we had to describe a word in such a way that without using certain words listed on the taboo card. The others should to guess the word. The game turned out to be fun and interesting, everyone enthusiastically participated and anyone who guessed the word correctly got a delicious chocolate (Every Week a Game Also Is Conducted with Prizes). Then we heard the second part of the audio book of Harry Potter (To Improve Listening Skills, Audio Books Are Played). After that we started to discuss about the books we read, in that one of the boys asked several question to get the discussion going, which helped the Book Club run smoothly, where everyone interacted by answering his questions(This Discussion Is Based On The Book That We Most Recently Read). Later on, an another boy shared an interesting article on "Mythology"; almost everyone gained an extra bit about mythology(Every Week One Of The Students Gets A Topic To Do Research Related To It And Share To The Rest Of The Class In The Next Session). This was the end of the session. The next week's topic is "Mystery". Everyone picked a book related to mythology and went home excited to read the new book and prepare for next week.