
Girls sit in rows, a few braiding each other’s hair, wet after being caught in the rain.

Open mouthed smiling girls with braces check their phones, and look at each other and laugh. I see clues that these kids know each other, that they must be from the same school. For call me maybe, make your telephone at “call me” and shrug at “maybe”.

but : “ you can’t keep singing at the same person, that would be awkward, you only like sing a line or two”. By about 4th grade sleepovers, girls learn to lock eyes while singing a key phrase, often accompanied by a gesture.

Start by teaching kids gestures that go with songs from preschool like the Itsy-Bitsy Spider and the Chicken Dance. President Obama knows the right gestures to use when singing Carly Rae Jepson’s “Call Me Maybe”, despite several dubbed viral videos which make him him look pretty… nerdy.
