Working with Sure Start kiddos is always fun, exciting, and definitely calls for some differentiation to be developmentally appropriate. They tend to enjoy books that I read to K-1, but just don't quite have the ability to sit through the whole story.  So, I went through the book and paper clipped some of the pages together that I could easily skip and keep the story flowing and it worked perfectly. I also introduced them to a rain stick that I bought on a trip to the Bahamas. We talked about the rain stick, what it sounded like, what it was made of, and how it worked. I wanted to make the rain stick very interesting, exciting, and the discussion definitely worked!  So, when I got to the part where I shared that the only person that could talk was the person with the special rain stick, it worked like magic! Now, we had to talk about what to do with our important words that we wanted to share while waiting for the other person to finish talking or the teacher to call on us.  We practiced by holding our teeth together, breathing in/taking our words back up to our heads from our tongues, holding them there, then speaking/breathing the words out when it was our turn to talk. The boys and girls met my challenge and were self monitoring and the interruptions were less and less as our lesson went on.  I wanted this to follow over into the classroom, so I shared the rain stick with their teacher and she is reiterating the skill.  This is a great way to teach kiddos how to control their words, not interrupt, be respectful, self monitor, and most of all let the kiddos know that all of their words are important to me.