Fifth Visit- Skip counting by 3's and 4's

Another visit down! I'm at the half way mark with my visits to Hidden Hollow. I'm getting to the point where danceable ideas in other subjects are starting to make themselves more visible. It was definitely a challenge at first, and I wouldn't go straight to easy now, but with anything in life, the more you continue with an idea or goal the more successful it becomes. I've done some reflection on my experience as an art scholar through the Arts Bridge program, and i've come to realize that learning and teaching are synonyms. There hasn't been a day, where I've left Ms. Thorstroms classroom with out learning something new about the subject I'm teaching, about movement, or about myself. The ability to keep learning and growing makes this crazy life a beautiful adventure. 

This fifth visit offered a great learning experience to my self as a novice educator. Crazy, loud, unfocused days are going to happen. I attempted to split the students into groups and give each group an equation, and they were responsible for finding a way to give the answer through movement. Most groups decided to make the answer into a group shape. I had one group decide to show their answer with push ups... Thirty-six push ups. This may have not been my most successful moment as a teacher as I watched this group of students struggle to get passed ten push ups. If I were to cross this situation again, I would suggest the students use their skip counting skills as they counted their push ups. Splitting into groups was a fun experiment, but I needed to set a higher expectation of the voice level while they worked together. The class jumped right into their assignment but the classroom started to feel a little crazy with how much was going on in that small space. I left thinking, "How can I utilize all that wonderful young energy in a way to keep students still excited about the learning process but focused and still hard working"? 

Any thoughts or  suggestions?