Critical Mass

My classes run between 10 to 15 students in each class. And my teaching methods and lesson plans are based on that. So when only 4 students show up, it really throws me off. Like today. All the schools have let out for about 2 weeks for vacation between the academic years. And as you can guess, attendance has been down a little this week. But today was just crazy. Playing Bingo with 4 students just isn't nearly as much fun and playing with 12. There truly is critical mass, and we didn't reach it. I think we did pretty well, considering the energy level started out dangerously low. But it still would have been better if we had more students.