Give yourself a marshmallow clap!

[headinhands]

Hi all. our school are rolling out RWI and I need more praise phrases. I regularly do:

Marshmallow claps
Fireworks
123, well done me
Spectacular
Fantastic
Round of aclaws and one other I have invented myself.

Any more? The kids love them and want some new ideas.

[MillyMoo1113]

Purr fect

Fab Dabby dozy

[MillyMoo1113]

Whoosh

Tomato ketchup

[Beedoo123]

A tomato ketchup! Pretend to squirt ketchup and all blow raspberries... Not a traditional one but surprise surprise the children love it!

[HerestoyouMrsRobinson]

I wish I knew what this thread meant

[Teaistheanswer]

Round of applause (clap in a circle!)
Pat yourself on the back
Silent cheer

All above used at my school. However funniest one I ever saw a teacher use was to stand the child on their chair (obviously she stood next to them for h&s!) and the whole class sang a song with the child's name and achievement in it. Sounds really stupid written down but the children loved it and worked so hard to be the one chosen. 😁

[krazipan]

I googled marshmallow clap and I'm guessing the urban dictionary definition is not what you are talking about

[Teaistheanswer]

No idea why my smiley face looks like a grimace! It really wasn't that bad 😊

[MillyMoo1113]

Superstar

Disco (invented by us, that's the way aha aha I like it aha aha)

[ItsAllGoingToBeFine]

WTF is a marshmallow clap? My immediate thought was urban dictionary, I'm not sure I dare check though...

[exLtEveDallas]

A Microwave (Wave little fingers about).
Crocodile clap (straight arms out in front and clap hands like a crocodiles mouth)
Seal of Approval (backward hands seal clap)

[DandelionAndBedrock]

"Seal of approval" - flap/smack your hands together like a seal and say "arf, arf, arf".

I hated myself when we started these, but the children do love them. I still find silent cheers hilarious, but they are helpful for when another class is trying to do something important and we are playing team games in PE!

[RJnomore1]

Does this help?

www.cusd80.com/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=35774&dataid=36989&FileName=J.%20Raj%20Class%20Claps.pdf

Fingers crossed none of the kids good marshmallow clap

[DandelionAndBedrock]

Cross-post!

I love micro-wave - pinching that one.

[headinhands]

Brilliant ideas guys! Give yourself an 'incredi-ball'!

I just made that one up :)

[wherehavealltheflowersgone]

Self high five?!

[dabulous]

NC for this as super 'outy'. I do a 'give yourself a dab-ulous'.

[fourcorneredcircle]

WTAF?!

[Snowbotheratall]

Oh my class are dab-crazy! They'll love 'dab-ulous'

[Bubblebloodypop]

This totally explains that one teacher in primary school who used to do Seal of Approval weird thing with her class. I always just thought she was a bit barmy.

[wasninah]

I'm guessing 'well done' is passe

[AnyTheWiser]

RWI= read, write inc???

[TeacherBob]

Winner, 1,2,3 then all the children say winner and make the usain bolt hand gestures.

Not really praise phrase but just for getting children to look and listen we also love:
Macaroni cheese (lets all freeze)
Hocus pocus (lets all focus)

[TreehouseTales]

My reception child loves the marshmallow clap. I remember the older one doing macaroni cheese.

Current fav thing I'd not seen before is "dough disco"!!