September Recap
What you might've missed this month...
Can you believe that it’s the end of September already? Something about back to school season seems to make time fly.
Since you’ve probably been busy with class meetings, homework schedules and just generally getting used to being somewhere for a certain time, I thought I would recap on what’s been happening on How I Drink My Coffee Hot this month.
Workshops or Email Series? — you decide
I’m going to start this article with a polite request: please could you vote on whether I should continue with email series or start monthly workshops instead?
Now that Substack have released more video content options, I’m wondering whether a workshop format might be beneficial and I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Workshops would take the format of a video which would be released at the start of each month - these would also include a written summary of issues discussed. Whereas email series would continue to be published on a weekly basis.
It doesn’t matter if you are a paying subscriber or not, but I am eager to hear your thoughts. With that being said, if you do currently pay, please let me know what you would prefer as I would hate to make the wrong decision! Currently I don’t really have enough votes to make a fully informed opinion.
You can vote on the poll via the article below:
A Brand new launch for October!
I'm excited to announce that I've just launched my brand new book page
. If you love childhood classics such as Brambly Hedge, Narnia, The Secret Garden and Anne of Green Gables, this page is for you.When I think about what reading has become in schools, I despair. Joy is sucked right out of the ‘learn to read’ process with regimented phonics lessons and pressure to perform well in reading comprehension tests. Often the pure joy of story is removed in favour of the mechanics of reading.
Whilst I do believe that comprehension is an important skill, I don’t believe that testing everything makes reading very enjoyable. Both of my youngest children have to take a test before they are even allowed to borrow another library book - talk about sucking the wonder out of reading!
So that’s where the idea for
came from. Fighting against the test-led approach to reading, in favour of something special. Reading should be an event, something full of magic and wonder. And this is exactly what I plan to explore through the blog.
Back to School Content
Member articles resumed this month with a focus on ‘How to Support your School Aged Child’.
