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Your children are going to love The Noisy Classroom! Every child has fears of going to a new class at the beginning of each year. This is about a student that is nervous about finding out that her 3rd grade teacher is the teacher that has The Noisy Classroom. All summer she worries about being in this classroom. But, when school starts she learns quickly that she is loving this noisy class, teacher, and her new way of learning!
From the hard cover to the illustration of the students and classrooms, your child will enjoy every page!
I would highly recommend this book! ( )

First I love the fact that the family and characters in the story are multi-cultural. Secondly as we are all going back to school in uncertain times, the nervousness and uneasiness about changing grades and going into a classroom that seems so different could help ease some of that anxiety for children. Children are so use to a routine of almost always being quite in school that if they see a room like Ms. Johnson's or know they are going to be a part of it it could lead to some uneasy feelings.

I also believe that this book, could hep parents and guardians of children feel comfortable with the idea that there is more than one way for a classroom to operate and that teaching methods that may not be the most common at your school can be just as effective. As someone in school working on his Elementary Education and working in schools now, I can totally see this room in schools I have worked and I can even see where maybe not to the degree of this story but I can see myself including pieces of this model in my future classroom.

The pictures are delightful and wonderfully bright. I believe this story really can be used at any point but especially at the end of the year to know that yes they are leaving one room and that their class maybe different but they are and will still be cared about. Their teachers are thinking about them while they are home for summer break and planning for what the new year will be. ( )

A sweet story with strong diversity feel though not the theme of this picture book. Going to the next grade can always be apprehensive and the main character does not want to be in the noisy classroom for 3rd grade. Alas, that is the class she is assigned to and beings to consider moving to Antarctica! The artwork is great with more somber tones at the beginning of the book and serious faces, while as a 3rd grader in Ms. Johnson's noisy classroom everything is coming up rainbows with plenty of learning fun! ( )

A fun story, and one that contrasts an older and a newer theory of education with a definite slant to the newer. I wonder how many children would actually feel as reluctant to participate in more interesting education as the main character of this story? I almost think it was targeted more towards parents who feel that to be educated, you have to sit quietly in rows. ( )

This book is a cute story that talks about learning through games in modern schools.
The main character is a second-grader who is anxious who about going to the third grade because the teacher always has music coming from the room and other unconventional events. The illustrations are beautiful and expressive. They also feature a non-white family, which is refreshing.
However, I'm not sure I believe that most children experience the anxiety about "noisy classrooms" that the main character does and feel like the story is really for the parents of those kids. I recommend it especially for school libraries and for children who are nervous about the next grade (in general). ( )