Touch the Ground

Touch the Ground     by Mark Weltner

Self-regulation

Lyrics:

• Touch the ground
  Turn around
  Show your shoe
  Hula hoop
  Clap clap clap
  Big hat
  Muscles work
  Fireworks

Comments:

After the children have learned this, you can move through it adding two lines at a time.

This helps bring focus and calm to children with extra energy.

Occasionally, when they’ve gotten to know it well, I’ll challenge them to do it backwards, which is a challenge for me, too, so they get to see me struggling with figuring it out, too.

The “fireworks cheer” at the end is something I learned from “Dr. Jean” (Dr. Jean Feldman, drjean.org).