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By Leigh

I have a very similar situation. My assistant can't handle the noise at all. I can handle it to a certain point. We snap our fingers and tell the kids that we need to only hear the snapping fingers. The kids get really
quiet. I often wonder if a (music tempo thing) would do. I don't know the proper name.
I have my students walk down the hallway with one hand behind their back and say this is to remind you not to touch and the other hand with their pointer finger over their mouth and say this is to remind you not to talk. We walk under the tile lines on the ceiling. If the line gets wiggly I

just remind them to walk under the line. It works really well for me.
When we go to calendar time, we say a poem that helps them to sit correctly. First, I tell them to sit like a pretzel. Then, we say, These are grandmother's spectacles(make fingers like a circle and put over eyes) and this is grandpa's hat( make a triangle with fingers over your head) this is the way we fold our hand's(hands combined) and lay them in my lap.