More than a week has passed since September. However, the days are still hot.
As always, the students are still sweating and playing, defying the heat.
The typhoon has passed, and today, for the first time in a while, a big blue sky spread out over Yumenomori.
Well, let's explore Yumenomori together today under the blue sky.

Let's see the 6th grade students activity. They are all taking off their socks.
When I thought they were having P.E. class, but they were smelling their socks.
"Uh, it stinks!"
"What are you doing?" I got worried and called out to him.
"Huh? I'm doing this for home economics."
Huh? I was wondering if there was ever a unit about smelling socks, and as I was looking at it, they started slowly rubbing their other sock in the mud.
"Look, it's dirty!" I sound like an old woman and called out to him again, and the child told me, "We're about to do a laundry experiment.''
It looks like they'll be experimenting with socks that only smell, and socks with mud stains, to see how clean they can be with different washing methods. At the request of the designer, each person prepared a tarai (large bowl) and washboard. Although I simply have written "washboard,'' most of the children were experiencing it for the first time.
Now it's time to practice laundry, the designer asks: "Let's try washing the smelly socks."
The children splashed around in the water and swirled them around.
"How is it? Has the smell gone?"
They sniff their socks again.
"Hmm, it doesn't smell too bad."
They found that simple sweat stains can be cleaned without too much scrubbing.
Now, time for the mud stains. Even if you scrub it the same way, it won't come out clean.
"Let's try using the washboard!''
Some students use the washboard at an angle, while others submerge it horizontally in the water and scrub.
"I've seen this in Momotarou (Old Japanese story)," one of the children answered proudly.
The water in the tarai is muddy and black. However, the children continue to scrub silently.
The designer calls out.
"Hey, do you think it will come out clean if you just keep washing it with black water?"
"Oh, right! Rinse!"
It seems like he remembered the lesson from last time. He rinsed it with clean water and it was finally clean. The laundry doesn't end there. There is still work to do with washing and drying.
"Now, let's dry the laundry. You can hang it anywhere you like." the designer said, and everyone went to dry their socks wherever they wanted.
Even though the weather is nice, some children dry their clothes in the shade.
"But, since the temperature is this high, it probably doesn't matter if it's in the shade." He has his own theory.

Well, it's past noon.
When the children's socks were about to dry, they went to take in the laundry.
"Look, my socks aren't dry at all yet!''
It seems that the child's theory of drying them in the shade was not proven.
"After all, we need to dry our laundry in a well-ventilated place in the sun.'' That
was the moment when everyone wholeheartedly agreed.

Lastly, I would like to share some of the activities of the 3rd grade students.
In the 5th period, during science class, they set off on an autumn bug hunting expedition. Yumenomori of Okuma is rich in nature. The nearby forest is full of insects. The third grade student who was screaming in April because she hated insects has become much stronger over the past six months.
"Look, there's a grasshopper!"
"Where, where? Oh, really! Yay!"
She caught more and more insects with her bare hands. They took pictures of the insects they caught on their tablets and examined them later. The two were engrossed in catching insects when they discovered a chestnut tree in the forest!
"Ah! Chestnuts are growing!!" I
wondered where their passion for insects had gone. Both of them are interested in chestnuts now.
"Look! I have found a big chestnut.''
The two of them picking up chestnuts with all their heart, it's like they're the protagonists of a fairy tale.
Although their purpose changed along the way, I feel like they have definitely found a piece of the changing seasons. "Little Autumn Little Autumn I found it."

A bonus at the end.
While picking chestnuts, they made a new discovery.
When you look at a chestnut shell, have you noticed that there is something on the edge of the plump chestnut that looks like a flimsy chestnut? I think most people throw it away even though they feel like it's a waste. The third grade students saw this and came up with an idea.
"Oh, I can use this to play the guitar."
It seems that he came up with the idea of ​​reusing it as a guitar pick.
He will put it into practice as soon as he gets back to school.
He's looking pretty cool!

A movie of memories from the first semester. Little by little, slowly, steadily, you are becoming stronger.