Class Band

I was teaching or waiting for the class to quiet down or something...

I started tapping a beat on a chair and once I realized what I was doing, I began looking around and noticed one kid tapping his pencil on his chair leg...
another snapping...
another rocking in his chair...
another trying to rhythmically pop is chip bag...
and one more tapping his fingers on his desk.
Everyone had their rhythm going and it melded together better than most of the students' personalities do on a good day!

I was taken out of the moment to watch/listen everyone make music in our classroom. The kids know that tapping is one of my pet peeves, but there was something unconscious about it for all of us.