This is the opening lesson for the year for the course.  I am always struck by how often students reference what we do that day - not only later in the school year, but years and years later when they come to visit.  Because this is also the first lesson to be published on this website, I'm hoping to... 

A chance to get to know each other - students bring in essays about profound experiences in their educational history (good or bad) and they have read the Mary Poppins text - "John & Barbara's Story" - about how we lose that great enthusiasm that we once had.