04/26/06 Jamey came tonight to observe. Only 2 students showed up -- Patricia and newbie Artemio. Tonight's lesson was on introducing weather terms, recycling months and seasons. With only 2 students and so much less interactions and small group/pair work, my lesson went faster than I had planned. So after the break I pulled out some materials on opposite adjectives that I had used back when I first started teaching this class. Last week I'd cleaned out my car and didn't have the Traveling Show that I'd been carting around for weeks. I'm going to start carrying it around again -- I could've used things from my files tonight. I can see that my challenge in upcoming weeks is to figure out how to fold in newbies while preserving some kind of order to my "16 Week Syllabus." Is this a Zen assignment -- holding the opposites???