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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[xcarex]

Several teachers in Halifax, NS (Canada) use the same clapping rhythm as well. I work at a popular field trip location so we hear the clapping often.

Less often, we'll hear "ears open, mouths closed!" but only once have I heard the rhyme in the OP's question.

(I can't contribute towards the childhood memories in the post since I was in French immersion from grade 1.)

[mmegaera]

55 (today!) and American, and no.

[full_metal_ox]

Happy birthday!

(53; American; never heard it throughout my public schooling in the Dayton, Ohio area.

My elementary-school gym coach did subject us to this, though; it was the official anthem of President Kennedy's Council on Physical Fitness: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af2j59zzX3Q)

[mmegaera]

Thanks!

[tersa]

Over 30, American, attended preschool, a different school K-3 (four teachers total), a multiple-teacher school grades 4-8, and high school, and never heard this from any of the myriad teachers I had during that time.

[lizvogel]

Never heard of it before. Also, I don't recall any sort of rhyming or catch-phrase being used; as best I can remember, teachers just said something like "Let's get started" or "Settle down" or other ordinary phrases. Mid-40s, Midwestern US.

[luorescence]

France and in my 20s. I heard it once or twice when I was in preschool. And I never heard it again after.