A Beautiful Person

This one is from a student named Chhavi. Chhavi meaning image, impression- and what an impression. We did an exercise at the workshop whereby one had to define the core function of the given object by completing the sentence 'The most important thing about ....(object) is .......... The object in question was Book. While others wrote about learning grammar, better language, knowledge , here is what Chhavi wrote.
"The most important thing about a book is that you read it"
And it hit me as the most apt definition as a library full of books cannot provide you with knowledge if you do not pick up the books and read them- well done. Sometimes a child's simple outlook can help de-clutter you complex viewpoint.

Another Word Play

This following poem was written by Krishangy as a part of a wordplay exercise. The poem moves forward essentially with only one word as the last two words of the previous line are repeated. The first and the last word of the poem are opposites and are the subject of the poem

Ice - cream Disaster

Dream ice-cream maker

ice-cream maker cones

cones almonds vanilla

almonds vanilla ice-cream

vanilla ice-cream melting

ice-cream melting disaster

melting disaster wake up

disaster wake-up water

wake-up water head

water head reality

- Krishangy

Out of the box

This activity was based on the previous works of the student. Aditi, one of the students at the workshop had written a sweet poem about Friends are Forever. At the workshop we discussed some radical thoughts and she came up with the following poem on the topic given to her

Friends-Hopefully Never!

Friends!please no!

I'd much rather have foes.

They may seem like they care

but don't get fooled!That's just an act

they aren't even concerned if you shed a tear

and that's a true fact!

People say friends are a must

But I say, they are just little pieces of dust!

All that talk about Friends being forever

but for me, Friends? hopefully never

- Aditi, Class VII, Sprindales School

Penwise or not

Hi folks
this is an invite to you all to write your heart out and share it with your friends. For starters let me publish all the wonderful work we did at the Bookshelf library this week. Keep those words floating in.