7 Call-and-Response Ideas to Reinforce Health & Safety
"Too close!" “Fix your mask!” “Get hand sanitizer!” How many times a day do you remind kids about pandemic protocols? Keeping the masks properly on the children's faces and keeping them at a distance is a serious challenge, especially in the primary school classes. Cue call and answer. It's a proven strategy used by educators around the world. Active response strategies like these can be used to reinforce, remind, or redirect students throughout the school day. Call-and-response is easy when students respond together when prompted by the teacher's "call." So after repeating ourselves a million times an hour (you know how it is), we came up with these pandemic-themed call-and-response chants to make it a little easier (and fun!) to stay safe to keep on everyone's lips. Educator Angela Watson also suggests asking your students to make up their own: This takes five minutes and can be a great back to school activity or something to do after a ...