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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[mamamiau]

Never heard this expression. I attended elementary schools in California and Texas, 1953 through 1961.

[haldane]

Australia, 1990s: my daughter tells me they definitely had a "triple-clap" for K-3 classes, but does not recall a spoken rhyme. However she wouldn't be surprised if a teacher used one, just that it would vary from person to person.

[malnpudl]

Age 56, midwestern US public schools, never heard of this.

[wotwizard]

US, I am 23, but my 40 year old Shaolin Kempo instructor uses one that goes, focus clap one (everyone claps) focus clap 2 (clap twice) eyes on who? You!

[green_grrl]

Never heard that one-maybe the occasional, "Eyes front," but no claps. 50, California.

We did the Presidential Fitness Test, but I never heard the Chicken Fat song until today! I did hear "Four on the floor or out the door" all through school, though.

[full_metal_ox]

The song is, of course, portraying Chicken Fat as something abhorrent, but I can imagine that choice of metaphor backfiring with some Jews: "Mmmm, schmaltz!"