Yumenomori is filled with the sounds of the people who live there…
The sound of small cars rolling in all directions across the floor…
The sound of trees joining together every time the tracks are joined…
Holding their breath, they patiently stack the blocks together.
And then there’s a loud sound of it crumbling, which becomes the catalyst for the creation of something new…
Playing in water with their high pitched voices…
The sound of hammering nails with focus…
Playing their own handmade instruments…
The sound of potatoes roasting over a fire…
The sound of the piano and the charming offbeat drum…
The voice of the person reading a picture book, and the breath of the person enjoying the world in the story…
At lunchtime, it’s a place for everyone to gather and eat…
The sound of small footsteps while mopping the floor…
The sound of water flowing from the tap…
The pleasant sound of the wind rushing in every time the door opens…
From small cries to loud laughter…
A quiet voice enjoying the world of children…
A loving scolding…
Snoring and talking in your sleep during naptime…
There are some sounds you can only hear while taking a nap…
Each one has a deep and meaningful “sound”…
Each “sound” has a story…
Each and every one of them is written out here..
And the footprints of “Oto” (Sound) left there…
Looking back, it became “Dream Sound (YUMENOTE)”…
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The new year has begun, and the third term started about a month and a half ago…
Hop, step, jump!
We want to carefully observe the changes that have taken place in our children…
I hope that each of them will be able to take a big leap forward with an eye on the next year…
With all the big leaps they’ve made so far…
Like a cameras aperture, we adjust our focus…
We looked at the children, and increased the sensitivity of our “antennas”…
Children, who can be said to be a bundle of energy, are “evolving” depending on how you look at it…
Children are constantly “changing”…
Things have changed dramatically over the past few decades…
As a result, the times are now calling for change…
We don’t see our children’s development as evolution…
We are creatures that change throughout our lives…
Otherwise we are on the road to degeneration…
So, to change is to live. To live is to change.
Change is a noble thing!
We do not overlook small changes in our children, but instead recognise, and praise them each time…
To witness and respond to these changes…
The childcare environment and we too must change every day…
That is why schools, both inside and out, change with the children…
Because it is a place that grows together with the children…
