次男と歩く - 今学年最後の面談

次男が障害児が通う学校に通い始めて、間もなく1学年が終わろうとしています。

思えばあっという間でした。

次男は学校が楽しくて仕方ない様子。
教室で次男に関わる4人の先生と最後の面談に行ってきました。
いかにして次男が教室で他の生徒たちと学んでいるか、この1年で次男がどこまで成長しているか。
そんな話をたくさん聞かせてもらいました。

特に印象的だったのは、クラスメートは殆どの子が一人で遊ぶことが好きな子ばかりなのだとか。
だけど、次男が誘うと一緒に遊ぶ子ばかりで、次男が一緒だとグループで遊ぶことも多くあるのだとか。

また授業中に先生が何か質問をした時、次男は答えが分からなくても必ず手を上げて答えようとするのだとか。
積極的になんにでも参加し、もっと知りたい、もっと分かりたいという意欲がクラスで一番次男に感じられるようです。

蝶々を指して
「これはなに？」
という先生からの質問に対し

次男は「蝶々」とちゃんと答えるようです。
さらに先生が「蝶々は何をする？」という問いにたいし。
「飛ぶ」と答え。
「どうやって？」という質問にたしても
「羽をつかって」と答えるようです。

ちゃんと先生の質問や話を理解してるし、そのスピードがみるみる速くなっていると先生方も驚いているようでした。

あと4週間ほどで夏休みに入る学校。
これまでの学校とは異なり、1年での次男の成長が最も感じられる年となりました。


My second son is about to finish his first school year at a school for children with disabilities.

Looking back, it all happened so fast.

My second son seems to be enjoying school.
I went to the last meeting with the four teachers involved with my second son in the classroom.
I asked them how my son is learning with other students in the classroom and how much he has grown over the past year.
I was able to hear many such stories.

What was particularly impressive to me was that most of his classmates like to play by themselves.
However, when my second son invites them to play together, they all play together, and when my second son is with them, they often play as a group.

Also, when the teacher asks him a question in class, he always raises his hand to answer even if he doesn't know the answer.
He actively participates in everything, and his eagerness to know and understand more seems to be the greatest in his class.

Pointing to a butterfly
What is this?
the teacher asked him

my second son answered, "A butterfly.
And when the teacher asked, "What does a butterfly do? the teacher asked
He answered, "Fly.
How does it do that?
he answered,"By using its wings.”

The teachers were surprised to see how well he understood the teacher's questions and stories, and how fast he was getting up to speed.

The school will be on summer vacation in about four weeks.
Unlike previous school years, this is the year in which I can feel my second son's growth the most.