The Rotary Club of Victoria-Harbourside provided a $3000 donation to 1000×5, and Executive Director Eileen Eby is delighted. “During COVID we have had to alter plans as you can imagine, these dollars have helped us immensely.” 1000×5 collects books or funds books through donations like this to...
Written by Denise Brown, 1000×5 Westshore Co-Ordinator As I was sorting books this week, I came across two favourite wordless picture books and wondered if families understand the worth, the beauty and the power of wordless picture books. Wordless books could be a hard sell for parents...
Written by Eileen Eby, 1000×5 Victoria Co-Ordinator Frequently, I speak to groups about all the books that 1000X5 distributes into homes. When I mention that we are always in short supply but heavy demand for books for babies, I often receive the response of “isn’t that too early to...
Written by Daphne Macnaughton, 1000×5 Peninsula Co-Ordinator Most of us have shared delight with young children ending their renditions of the Alphabet Song with Now I’ve said my ABCs; next time won’t you sing with me? Or, Now I’ve sung the ABCs; tell me what you think of me! We celebrate...
The 2016 – 2017 school year begins this week and alongside the children entering the buildings will be the thirty or so 1000X5 volunteers – eager to see what books arrived from schools over the summer. And just as eager to begin again are the agencies which know the value of getting books into...
On Tuesday mornings in July and August, Peninsula “1000 X 5” Project volunteers join members of Saanich Peninsula Literacy at the Open-Air Library (OAL) at Beacon Park in Sidney. The OAL was initiated last summer by Marlene Dergousoff, Literacy Outreach Coordinator for the Saanich Peninsula...
Is there magic involved in sharing books with young children? If there was magic, we would wave a wand and magically, books would be in abundance in the home of every young child. And if there was even more pixie dust to go around, each book would be of high quality, every one of them becoming a...
Kaitlyn and her teacher, Mme Marss looking through some of the books Do you think 11 year olds can lead change? We know one who can and did. In early March, Kaitlyn, a Grade 5 student from Ecole Quadra Elementary, cleaned and bagged the 100000th book collected for the Victoria 1000 X 5 project. ...
Together, we have collected about 250 000 books for redistribution to young children and families in our region. Often, people ask: Where do you get all those books? The answer is: From various sources. Books come to us from: schools… There are collection bins in local elementary schools...
Does reading to young children really make a difference? We think it does, and we are not alone. Ask our Primary teachers and their answer will be that they can tell who has been read to and who has not before starting school. On going research supports our beliefs. For many years the benefits of...
016 The three 1000X5 projects have been gifted not only with an astounding number of books, but also a talented and committed cadre of volunteers. They have no more time than anyone else, but week after week they enter the classroom where books and laughter are shared in equal measure. Why do...
It’s not too hard to imagine this: Two families are living in the same house. Upstairs, a young professional couple live with their three children, two of whom are in school. They rent their “mortgage helper” basement suite to a single mother with a young child; she is employed, but her work is...