Give yourself a marshmallow clap!

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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.

Dabs are drugs hit from USA...fun dance move celebrating drugs use...

The invention of the dab has been credited to Migos, a rap group from Atlanta. Sports stars all over the world are doing it, which is why our kids are copying it.

Do a Buzz Lightyear...."reach for the stars!"

Or "Yee-ha cowboy!" While doing a lasso throw.

Dabbing is the process of mixing cannabis with butane gas and like alot of things in popular culture you could argue which came first the act or the dance move and it has since been adopted by sportspeople as a fun, cool thing to do.

Is there any chance our children will spiral into a life of crime and drug addiction because of a dance pose?

What's wrong with 'you have done well'? Do we need gimmicks and scripts to communicate with our classes now??

If it engages the class what exactly is wrong with it?

DDs old HT used to do them in Assembly and would do the long pause thing before he chose the action. Watching the kids anticipate the next move was half the fun . He had his own 'signature' as well - similar to the MoBot or Bolt that the kids loved to do.

He was a great HT, all the kids (and parents) thought so. We were gutted when he moved onto bigger and better things.

My kids do silent cheers and they crack me up.

You do know dabbing was started to mimic taking cocaine on your arm and dabbing your nose to snort it.

I must be getting old.

I think that this all sounds brilliant. I love that our children are being taught by people who like creative ways of praising - and use their spare time to discuss it! Thank you teachers!

Umm acorns, you know that's not true, right?

SisterViktorine

Because it is fun.

Children should have fun. Children have a right to enjoy learning.

I love my class having fun. I don't think I need a list of 'praise phrases' neatly laminated by my whiteboard to make that happen.

How about just great, engaging teaching?

All the threads on here about recent graduates and school leavers being really needy in the workplace and expecting constant reassurance and pats on the head. Maybe it's because there are not enough praise phrases at work, eh?

Crikey. Do you feel the same way about cheering on your team? About shouting encouragement to a last placed runner?

About rounds of applause after a rousing speech? About telling someone they've done a good job?

Do you get an appraisal every year, or would you rather no-one noticed if you were doing well ?

What exactly is th difference? Are you this much of a joy thief in the classroom?

Meh, I'm obviously just a grumpy old cow. My kids have a lovely time in class thanks- and I love an 'in' joke with them- I do NOT need to be TOLD by some commercial teaching 'resource' that I MUST think up a cheesy 'praise phrase' in order for my class to learn though- which is what appears to be going on here.

I do NOT need to be TOLD by some commercial teaching 'resource' that I MUST think up a cheesy 'praise phrase'

Ours was nothing to do with RWI. Never used it. Kids like the phrases, that's all.

Maybe I should add as a caveat that all my pupils have autism so perhaps pretending to be a seal in response to remembering a comma after a fronted adverbial would be more lost on them than on a mainstream class.

'Well done, you have put a comma after your fronted adverbial which makes your writing make more sense to someone trying to read it' yes. Pretending to be a seal- not so much.

And marshmallow clapping- I would just get rounds of 'where are the marshmallows.. when are we getting marshmallows...?'

I am starting to see this might be a specific issue to my setting.

I thought current thinking is that meaningful specific praise, of effort rather than achievement, is most effective. Sounds more like use of praise as some sort of entertainment to me!

*marshmallow clap!' PMSL!!!!!
No way, or at least perhaps you shouldn't especially if the kids have older brothers or sisters and may know why that is slang for!

My yr2 ds does RWI. I've just asked him if he knows what a marshmallow clap is and he looked at me like this

'Cheesy praise phase'

It's just fun. The kids love it. We have a giggle. It scoops up the ones who often find concentration challenging.

I went from a year 1 class in a underprivileged area, to a year 4 class where nearly all the children had private tutors, whilst training.

My year 1 class love the phrases and we used them a lot but I decided I wouldn't use them in year 4 because it wasn't appropriate.

One day by accident I said 'macaroni cheese' and they looked at my blankly. I explained I used it with my other school and they asked me how so I told them. They decided they wanted to use them too.

After lunch they came up to me and said they had thought of there own.]I had to say 'let's do the chicken dance' and they reply 'let's all give science a chance'.

I felt stupid saying it but the kids loved it. Which makes me love it.

Just a 'nice' story

Just try not to make it compulsory for yr5 & yr6. This was the ultimate cringe for my dc if they got a cheer in assembly and had to choose one. Or maybe a tongue in cheek 'aspiring to be in secondary school polite round of applause'