Ok! Update time!! So last Friday I went in and taught my first lesson. As a reminder I am helping teach a 3rd grade class and let me just say that they are just the most adorable little angels. I'm not kidding, this group is the most well behaved 3rd graders I have ever met in my life; and yes I realize that it will not always be that way. :P Anywhooo, the kiddos were working on triple-digit subtraction and I confess that I was having a hard time coming up with ideas for that particular subject, so like the good Arts Bridge Scholar that I am, I contacted my mentors so that I may partake of their wisdom. I started by contacting Dr. May because she is over my specific emphasis of my major (general music) and she is positively fabulous. She came up with a clever idea of putting problems on a board and doing some percussive stuff. She later got me in contact with the blessed Emily Knell and we kind of fine-tuned the idea and I came up with a lesson plan! Suffice it to say, the lesson w...