Did your elementary(or grammar)-school teacher call for attention like this?

[sand3]

So with classes of small children, teachers will often have rhymes or special claps to call the children's attention when it's wandered, I'm wondering about one I remember form childhood where the teacher would call out "One Two Three! Eyes on me!"I'm trying to figure out how long it's been being used and how wide-spread. So this is more a survey

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[lil_shepherd]

No.

UK. Over 60. Not yet 70.

[xfdryad]

Over 30 and American, attended 8 schools from k-12, never heard of this saying.

(couldn't tell if you meant and/or with the American part, so...)

[oakstone730]

Yes. We had that one along with "four on the floor" (meaning four chair legs, no leaning back in the chair). 1970s, northern Illinois schools.

[iantojjackh]

Had that too. This was mid 80's in New Jersey and Catholic school too. Teachers were at least in their 60s or 70s at that point.

[evelyn_b]

I'm over 30, USA, and I don't remember this specifically, but it also seems like the sort of thing that a lot of teachers might come up with independently or that might be popularized in a bunch of different waves over time (simple rhyming stock phrase for classroom management) so it wouldn't alarm me if it turned up in a classroom setting any time after about 1870.