Rolling behaviour in 3 year old when needing to listen

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So my 3 year old son can go from engaged in joining in a song at a group, to rolling around the floor when the person talks between songs or activities. Apparently he also does this rolling about at preschool during story time, although I've been told he likes certain books ( seems to be ones we read at home, so familiar).

So I'm after opinions on what this is ? It's mainly when someone is talking or reading. He doesn't focus on it. He has done this since about 18 months and if I try to sit him up etc, he's impossible to handle, so that doesn't work. But he can engage if he wants to. He has had 3 hearing tests, as I was concerned it was a hearing issue, but all passed.

Only other thing that would site as unusual is that he repeats certain sounds like an alarm noise when running about or just bored. So could these be ticks ?

I don't think that is unusual for many 3 year olds.
How long are they expecting him to sit there ? You'd be quite surprised how long a number of Nurseries expect tiny people to concentrate on something they haven't chosen and doesn't necessarily interest them.

@BackforGood I totally agree probably too long, and comparing him to older children. I do wish kids were allowed to be kids instead of training them into adults so soon.

I suppose my issue, if you call it that is, when we go to certain activities I know the children are roughly the same age and I don't see this rolling behaviour.

I have only seen it once in another boy and his mum was saying he was tired and she was trying to change his nap times. I had thought it
tired behaviour, but my son doesn't nap now. He used to only nap in the pushchair when he was dropping them, but can now stay awake for an hours dog walk, so doesn't need it. I think it's boredom, but I don't know. It's just strange others can listen and be interested when he can't. If they were all the same, I'd think it was the activity but I think it's just my son has a short attention span.