May 15, 2008

handwriting to music

Last term we learnt about switch on and switch offs. Music can be a switch on.
Today Aidan bought along one of his cd's.
We played it whilst we were doing our handwriting.
The music was fast heavymetal/rock and quite loud.
We all had different opinions some of them are.
  • "It was hard to work with and I thought handwriting was suppossed to be quiet"
  • "It was ok but some people got distracted by the music"
  • "It wasn't good because it was hard to work with loud music"
  • "I would like to hear rock music again but others were silly"
  • "I love the rock music and it helped me"

We voted here are the results

Rock music 10

A different type of music 9

No music during handwriting 5

We are going to try some different types of music and different volumes and will have to figure out what to do with people who do not like music whilst they work.

Post a comment if you have an idea

3 comments:

Turner-Walker said...

The Rock didn't work, but you could try a different music but have the people further away that don't like it.
And the choir music didn't work well either. My arm was hurting from like how annoying it was and it sort of made me struggle in a way.
So I will bring some of my music along

Mrs Constable said...

Hello Room 8
I love your idea of trying different music. I wonder that if the beat is fast then you would write fast? Do you think this is true?
In room 21 we dont have any music on when we complete our handwriting, but i would be interested to see how your experiments go. From Miss good

principalsblog said...

What a good idea to find out what music helps your learning. Sometimes I like to have music, and sometimes when I am trying to work on budgets with numbers I have to have quiet. I find that some music remind sme of things. SOmetimes I use music to remember things. I love to sing as it makes me feel good. I think it might have something to do with what happens in my brain - does anyone know?