五月から暑い日が続き、梅雨に入ったかと思ったら急に梅雨明け。暑い日が続き、教室には冷房をかけますが、子どもたちの熱気で教室の中も真夏の様。
今週は七夕という事で私たちは七夕をテーマにセンサリーボトルを作りました。小さなボトルの中に天の川のようにたくさんの星たちを詰めていきます。子どもたちはハサミ練習を兼ねてセロファンを切っていきます。自信を持って取り組まれる子もいますが、怖いのでスタッフの手を持って行う子もいました。完成させた作品を眺める子どもたちの目はどれもきらきらとしています。中には癒し効果がありすぎたのか、眺めながら寝てしまう子も。もちろん疲れから寝てしまったのだと思いますが、それでもスヤスヤとセンサリーボトルを眺めながら寝てしまう彼を見て、私たちも癒されてしまいました。
夏はまだ始まったばかり。園や家では出来ない夏の活動を模索しつつ、子どもたちに楽しい時間を与えられるように今月も頑張りたいと思います。

The hot weather has continued since May, and just when it seemed like the rainy season had started, it suddenly ended. Now it’s hot outside and then we started to use the air conditioner. But even if we use it, we feel the heat in the classroom because of the children’s excitement.
This week is Tanabata, so we made ‘sensory bottles’ with the theme of Tanabata. We filled a small bottle with many stars like the Milky Way. The children cut the cellophane (clear Origami) to practice using scissors. Some children were confident, but some were scared so they held the teacher’s’ hands to use them. The eyes of the children looking at their bottles were all sparkling. Some children fell asleep while looking at them, perhaps because the healing effect worked a lot on him. Of course, I think he fell asleep because he was tired but seeing him fall asleep while looking at the sensory bottle was also healing for us too.
Summer has just begun. We would like to do our best this month to give the children a fun time while looking for summer activities that cannot be done at their preschools or at home.