At a meet organised by Long Long Ago recently, principals, teachers, librarians and correspondents from various schools got together to chalk out ways to improve the collection in their libraries, while creating a passion for reading among students. Read more from The Hindu
We recently told you about the The Imaginative Journey, a story telling and parental workshop by Mrs. Kusimika Chatterjee. We had a wonderful time. We will post some photos shortly in our blog. The children, the parents and our members, everyone not only enjoyed but also actively participated. The press did notice and you can find the coverage in The Hindu.
We are conducting a series of workshops on how to make reading more enjoyable. We recently conducted one such workshop in a playschool called Vidhya Vardhi in Coimbatore.
“Kids as young as six months old can be initiated into reading. But children of such a young age do not actually read but only see visuals in the books, to which they get attracted because of colours and shapes. For, bright colours excite children.”
‘The Hindu’ covered the workshop here:
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamilnadu
It’s always amazing to see how fast kids get into a story and play a role in a story.
If Karunya wants to borrow books, she switches on her computer, presses a few buttons and makes a wish! The books will reach her the very evening. Once upon a time, she would have had to travel all the way to the lending library.
Come April and there is a flood of summer camps. Camp organizers choose kids centric themes like Art & Craft, Robotix, Do-it-yourself Projects, Fun camps, Story telling and what not. Parents are really confused which one should I choose for my child.
Here is a camp with a difference. “Stepping Stones” is “A Leadership SummerCamp” for Pre-teens and Teens (ages 10-16).
LongLongAgo teams up with Springboards as their Library partner for “Stepping Stones”. Springboards is a Leadership and TalentManagement company. They specialize is Soft skill training, Behavioural skills and leadership development of Corporate Employees. Stepping Stones is their maiden attempt in the area of training young adults.
The camp is a holistic approach towards the all round development of an child. The topics covered in the camp are
Children are trained in these areas through a series of games, activities , group discussions, and other fun filled activities.
LongLongAgo believes in developing reading as a skill. Springboards promote reading for developing communication skills. Thus our partnership was born.
LongLongAgo members in Chennai, you get 10% discount on the camp fees.
What are you waiting for ?
Hurry up! Unleash the hidden potential in your child. Make him/her a winner at School, with Friends and at home.
Learn more about the summer camp here.
No not really … it was not that long long ago we were in news since we started shipping books.
Update: ‘The Hindustan Times’ newspaper covered us recently.
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Update: ‘The Hindu’ newspaper covered us in their Young World section.
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We have been getting some favorable reviews and coverage from the startup blogging world.
These blogs are well known in the startup space and they have covered new & promising startups in India. We are looking forward to graduating to the next level.
A big thank you for all the bloggers.
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We have recently heard about the Unified Cyber Olympiad (UCO) from a member and asking us whether we have some preparatory books for it.
Naturally we go an extra-mile to bring the requisite books by our members.
We learnt that the main goals of UCO are:
The UCO is held across the country on 7th September this year.
The UCO is conducted for students for the classes 3rd until 10th standard. Yes beginning with 3rd standard.
If you look at the sample questions you will find its more fun and improves the cognitive and logical reasoning skills.
Sample question for Class 2:
A teacher is lining up his students in this order:
girl, girl, boy, boy, girl, girl, boy, boy girl, girl, boy, ? ?
If he continues the same pattern, what are the next two students in line?
(A) Boy, boy (B) Boy, girl (C) Girl, boy (D) Girl, girl (E) None of these.
Sample questions for Class 3:
In one trip a car can take 6 people. In how many trips can it take 30 people?
(A) 5 trips (B) 6 trips (C) 4 trips (D) 10 trips (E) None of these.
Find the odd one out.
(A) Sunday (B) January (C) Wednesday (D) Friday (E) None of these.
Sample question for Class 4:
A is 40 m SouthWest of B. C is 40 m SouthEast of B. C is in which direction of A ?
(A) South (B) West (C) East (D) NorthWest (E)
None of the above.
We are sure your child will answer it faster than you can read 
Does your child’s School participate? You can find more information about UCO here.
BTW, we have added some books for the preparation of such exams which you can find here.
Good luck to all the children taking the exam. Have fun!
Just think about for a minute?
The list can go long but the most important message for the next generation kid is: learning-is-life-long. The days where you studied hard in school/colleges are gone. You have to keep reading, just ask any Infosian’s or Wiproites who are preparing along with their children for their annual review exam
A recent study U.S. sociologist says books in the home are key to a child’s success — whether in China or the United States.
Mariah Evans of the University of Nevada in Reno says books in the parents’ home were more important than the country of residence or parental economic status in determining a child’s educational level.
“The results of this study indicate that getting some books into their homes is an inexpensive way that we can help these children succeed,” Evans says in a statement.
Evans and colleagues conducted a 20-year study of more than 70,000 cases in 27 countries.
You can read the original news here
Of course you can keep-bringing-good-books home from our library.
