Our experiment continues with our noise chart. I am still finding it quite valuable in terms of being conscious of overall noise levels.

Here's what some of the Room 1 students think:

I think that the chart is working because we follow it most of the time but sometimes it doesn't because when we do our handwriting we talk instead of whispering or being silent.Our chat is working really well.Shawna.

I think we are going OK because we sometimes follow the noise chart and we sometimes don't . our chart is going really well . Caitlyn


I think that its sort of working because some people are following it and some aren't.

FROM NIC

I think the chart is kind of working because some people are following it but some people aren't and if one person is not following it other people wont follow it either so its not really helping.
Nathan=)

I think the chart is working really well but some people don't follow it and Mr Baylis has to keep telling us what our noise level is supposed to do and i don't think he should have to do that, we are supposed to use it independently. i also think it is really good that it has got group noise levels on there.
Jacqui!!!

I think it is working well but there are a few people not following it because mr baylis has to tell us to be silent but other ways its fine
 mason=0

Our Noise Experiment

Mr Baylis worked into the wee small hours last night completing our noise level chart.

Our day is broken down into our main learning areas, and how long we will be approximately spending on each one.
We then decide as a class at the beginning of the day what we think our noise levels should be for the different parts of the day. We have a mixture of whole class and group activities and these are split into noise levels as well.

We will trial this next week and reflect on whether we think it has been helpful or not.

If you have any reccommendations/ideas please feel free to comment below and let us know.

(Our initial noise chart)

Noisy Classrooms

I was looking at Miss White and Room 2's blog page the other day

http://turuturuschoolroom2.blogspot.com/

saw their discussion about Noisy Classrooms and was so inspired i decided to try it out with Room 1.

Here's the article:

I then asked the students in Room 1 what their thoughts were. This generated great debate as approximately half of the class enjoyed working with noise while half didn't.

The question was then asked, 'How do we meet the needs of every student in the class in terms of noise level?'

Here are our initial thoughts:

We then took one of these, a noise chart, and explored ways of creating a chart that could assist with this.

Here are our drafts:






We have decided to combine bits of each plan to create 1 noise level chart for the class. It will be created soon and we will trial it for 2 weeks. We'll keep you updated with how it's going.

A big thankyou to Miss White and Room 2 for showing me their wonderful ideas and for inspiring our own.