I don't know about "anchoring" but when I was a pre-school teacher, I used this trick to get rowdy kids to focus. It's just a little speach, where the child participates by standing still and listening / imagining what I'm telling them.

It goes like this:
Stand with your legs about shoulder width apart, and your hands at your sides. Hold your hands out from your side a little bit, so they are like a capital A. OK, now close your eyes and don't move until I tell you to open them again.

OK, now feel the earth under your feet.
Feel the energy of the ground seep into your feet. It's slowly starts to creep up your legs. Do you feel it?

OK, I want you to stop the energy before it gets to your head. Instead, push it down your arms and let it gather up in your fingertips. Pretty soon, your hands are full. So shoot the energy out your fingertips, and back into the ground.

But the ground wants to give you the energy again, so it comes back in your feet. And it goes up to your shoulders, and you push it back down your arms. And you shoot it from your fingers. Over and over.

There's a lot of energy spinning up your feet through your body to your shoulders, down your arms to the ground and back into your feet. The energy is building up, going faster and faster. There's only one thing left to do.

We have to let the energy go. But when we let it go down, it just came back, so we'll let it go up, this time.

I want you to let the energy through your neck and through your head and just shoot all that energy straight up into the sky until it's gone.

Are you doing it?

Is it all gone?

You can open your eyes now. How do you feel?


I don't remember who taught me to do this, but it works really well to get a rowdy, unfocused child to join in with the class.