長万部高校の日常

　去る10月4日（月）三学年の総合的な探究の時間に、こころとからだの健康学習の事前学習を行いました。

　妊婦体験シミュレーターを使って、臨月の身体の重さや動き辛さを体感したり、首の座っていない赤ちゃん人形にミルクをあげたりおむつを取り替えたりする難しさを体験しました。

　また、現在子育て真っ最中の先生方や奥様に生徒たちからアンケートを行い、日常生活での大変さや、子どもの可愛さ、大切さをリアルに感じる事のできる回答をもらい、学習後のアンケートには『自分もこんなに大変な思いをして育てられたのかということが分かり感謝の気持ちが湧いてきた。』『自分は生む立場ではないがパートナーとしてしっかり支えてあげたい』など沢山の感想が寄せられ、大変意義深い学びの時間となりました。

[Learning What It Is like to Raise a Baby]　
On October 4th, a preliminary to Mental and Physical Health Study took place for the third year students.

　They learned hardships of pregnancy; using some pregnancy simulators, they experienced how heavy one can feel being pregnant, how difficult one will feel moving around with a baby inside them, and also how tough it is to give milk to a baby with their neck not stable.

　Also, the students had a chance to learn what it is really like to have a child (especially very young); they had asked some mothers around (e.g., a wife of one of the teachers) questions about having a baby. The firsthand answers (with real experiences the mothers had been through) told the students about adorableness as well as hardships of having a baby/babies. Reading them, one student said “my parents has been raising me with much more efforts than I ever possibly imagined. Now, I am so grateful to my parents.” Another said “I never get to give birth to a baby myself (as I am a man), but I will stand by my future spouse.”
　These comments (with all the others aside for the sake of space) make obvious that it was a meaningful time for the students. 
(Written by Yuto Kobayashi, 2021 2nd year)