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園庭には井戸があります。
この水は地下２５メートルにある水源から汲み上げ、水質検査も行っていますが「飲んだらダメ」と子どもたちに伝えています。
　園庭を造る時、井戸はどうしても掘りたいと思っていました。ですが、業者さんへお願いしても水源に当たらないで水が出ない場合もあります。必ず水が出るという保証がないのです。必ず水が出る方法として、工法を変え地中にタンクを埋め水道水を貯めるシステムにしてしまうべきかと迷いました。でもなんだか物足りない感じがします。
　フルムーンは自然環境に恵まれた地域にあり、近くに川や用水路もあり、ご近所さんも井戸を掘っておられるお宅が多いことを知り掘ることに決めました。井戸水は、夏は冷たく、冬は暖かい「なんで水道と井戸の水は違うのだろう？」という事を子どもたちに気づいてもらいたい願いもありましたから、水が出てきた時には本当に嬉しかったです。
　夏になり、泥んこ遊びをするSunクラスから「水が冷たい」という声が聞こえてきます。井戸水を汲み上げる為には友だちと協力することも必要です。友だちと協力して水を出し、水を受け、どんどん遊びが広がっていきます。
今年はまだまだ暑い日が続きそうです。井戸水を思いっきり使って楽しんでいきたと思っています。

The well water is flowing this summer!
Full Moon has a well in the playground. The children use a hand pump to pump it out from the water source located 25 meters underground. Although the water quality has been inspected, I tell the children that they shouldn’t drink it. When the school was being built, I really wanted to dig a well. But there is no guarantee that water will come out because very simply, sometimes you cannot reach the water source. One solution is to bury a tank in the ground to store tap water to ensure you can get water. We were considering this,
but it didn’t feel right.
Full Moon is located in an area blessed with a natural environment, with rivers and irrigation canals nearby. I decided to dig because I knew that many of my neighbors were digging wells also. Well water is cold in summer and warm in winter. We hope the children will notice and inquire: “Why is tap water different from well water?” Needless to say, we were all very happy when we tried the pump and water came out. Now, you can hear the children saying while playing in the mud, “The water is cold.” It is also a good way to teach teamwork and the need to take turns as the children have to cooperate with each other when pumping the well water. Cooperation makes pumping the water, filling up the pond, playing in the mud and then draining the water all that much more fun. As we are in the middle of summer, there will be many more hot days this year. I think we are enjoying using the well water to the fullest.