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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[littlered2]

24, from the UK - it's not something I remember ever hearing.

[being_lola_star]

24, Canada, Early Childhood Educator. Don't remember hearing it until about five years ago at one of my college placements. I hate that phrase so much. Almost as much as "crisscross apple sauce".

[evil_little_dog]

I know I've heard it, but never in my school (50 in five days, attended school in Southern Indiana and Central Florida). I can't remember where I've heard it, actually, since I don't have kids myself.

[lilacsigil]

Australia, late 30s, never heard this or anything similar. A teacher might say "Quiet down," or "Eyes on the board", or "Heads down bums up" when we were meant to be working, but no rhymes or claps.

[elbiesee]

I used it when I worked at a day care. The kids would respond "One! Two! Eyes on you!"

I'm a 37 year old American.

[gehayi]

I remember this and the response from first and second grade. Age 51, American from Connecticut, so that would have been 1968-69.