Samuel Marshak read where the sparrow dined. Poem "Where the Sparrow Dined" How to learn a verse with your baby

A well-known and popular children's work can become a child's favorite poem. Funny and cheerful, any preschool child will love it. In addition, this short verse is very rhythmic and musical, which will appeal to both children and adults.

Who wrote the work

The genius of children's poetry Samuil Marshak came up with a wonderful and funny poem "Where the Sparrow Dined." The author included it in a collection of his other works, such as "Teremok", "Cat's House", "That's How Absent-Minded". The verse is below.

Where did you have lunch, sparrow?

At the zoo with the animals.

I had lunch first

Behind bars by the lion.

Took some refreshment from the fox.

I drank some water at the walrus's.

I ate carrots from an elephant.

I ate millet with the crane.

Stayed with a rhinoceros

I ate a little bran.

I went to the feast

In tailed kangaroos.

I was at a festive dinner

At the shaggy bear.

A toothy crocodile

Almost swallowed me.

The prosaic fairy tale quickly gained popularity among children and adults, thanks to its comic nature and ease of memorization. Like all children's poems by Samuil Marshak.

Cartoon based on a poem

A cartoon was even created based on this nursery rhyme. It was released by Soyuzmultfilm studio in 1983. Svetozar Rusakov was appointed as the production designer, and Sandor Kallosh as the composer. He used fragments of music by Domenico Cimarosa, a famous Italian classical music composer.

The cartoon was voiced by Honored Artist of the RSFSR Oleg Anofriev, who became famous for his roles in the films “The Tale of Lost Time” (played old Petya), “After the Rain on Thursday” and “Incognito from St. Petersburg.” He also voiced other children's cartoons: “How the Lion Cub and the Turtle Sang a Song,” “Tram Number Ten Was Walking,” “The Bremen Town Musicians.”

How to learn a verse with your baby

Samuel Marshak's work "Where the Sparrow Dined" consists of sixteen short lines. With a child, it is easy to memorize four lines at a time, and with each new quatrain, reinforce the already learned material.

Children easily remember poetry if there is an emotional component. You should definitely smile sincerely and have fun when reading a poem, then the baby will remember it faster. Don't try to learn it in one go. To use long-term memory to memorize this work of a children's writer, it is first better to try to read it with intonation several times for two or three days in a row, and then try to repeat it with the child.

After the poem has been reread several times, the adult can try to start saying one line so that the child says the second. It is recommended to do this in a playful way. Then you can switch places, now the child says the first line, and the adult tries to say the second. This method is very effective for memorization.

Great ones about poetry:

Poetry is like painting: some works will captivate you more if you look at them closely, and others if you move further away.

Small cutesy poems irritate the nerves more than the creaking of unoiled wheels.

The most valuable thing in life and in poetry is what has gone wrong.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Of all the arts, poetry is the most susceptible to the temptation to replace its own peculiar beauty with stolen splendors.

Humboldt V.

Poems are successful if they are created with spiritual clarity.

The writing of poetry is closer to worship than is usually believed.

If only you knew from what rubbish poems grow without knowing shame... Like a dandelion on a fence, like burdocks and quinoa.

A. A. Akhmatova

Poetry is not only in verses: it is poured out everywhere, it is all around us. Look at these trees, at this sky - beauty and life emanate from everywhere, and where there is beauty and life, there is poetry.

I. S. Turgenev

For many people, writing poetry is a growing pain of the mind.

G. Lichtenberg

A beautiful verse is like a bow drawn through the sonorous fibers of our being. The poet makes our thoughts sing within us, not our own. By telling us about the woman he loves, he delightfully awakens in our souls our love and our sorrow. He's a magician. By understanding him, we become poets like him.

Where graceful poetry flows, there is no room for vanity.

Murasaki Shikibu

I turn to Russian versification. I think that over time we will turn to blank verse. There are too few rhymes in the Russian language. One calls the other. The flame inevitably drags the stone behind it. It is through feeling that art certainly emerges. Who is not tired of love and blood, difficult and wonderful, faithful and hypocritical, and so on.

Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

-...Are your poems good, tell me yourself?
- Monstrous! – Ivan suddenly said boldly and frankly.
- Do not write anymore! – the newcomer asked pleadingly.
- I promise and swear! - Ivan said solemnly...

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov. "Master and Margarita"

We all write poetry; poets differ from others only in that they write in their words.

John Fowles. "The French Lieutenant's Mistress"

Every poem is a veil stretched over the edges of a few words. These words shine like stars, and because of them the poem exists.

Alexander Alexandrovich Blok

Ancient poets, unlike modern ones, rarely wrote more than a dozen poems during their long lives. This is understandable: they were all excellent magicians and did not like to waste themselves on trifles. Therefore, behind every poetic work of those times there is certainly hidden an entire Universe, filled with miracles - often dangerous for those who carelessly awaken the dozing lines.

Max Fry. "Chatty Dead"

I gave one of my clumsy hippopotamuses this heavenly tail:...

Mayakovsky! Your poems do not warm, do not excite, do not infect!
- My poems are not a stove, not a sea, and not a plague!

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky

Poems are our inner music, clothed in words, permeated with thin strings of meanings and dreams, and therefore, drive away the critics. They are just pathetic sippers of poetry. What can a critic say about the depths of your soul? Don't let his vulgar groping hands in there. Let poetry seem to him like an absurd moo, a chaotic pile-up of words. For us, this is a song of freedom from a boring mind, a glorious song sounding on the snow-white slopes of our amazing soul.

Boris Krieger. "A Thousand Lives"

Poems are the thrill of the heart, the excitement of the soul and tears. And tears are nothing more than pure poetry that has rejected the word.

Every mother knows about the benefits of poems for children. It’s not for nothing that psychologists and speech therapists advise children to start reading such works at an early age. Small short poems are suitable for the youngest students. They can be taught to children as young as one year old, while experts advise children to start reading nursery rhymes from birth. They will help babies learn to speak early.

At first, babies will babble happily as their mother reads, trying to imitate the intonation of her voice. Then, when they get older, they will begin to pronounce sounds that are very reminiscent of some words from poems. And in a year, some nimble kids will repeat their favorite phrases after adults.

Why is it so much more important to read poetry to young children than prose?

The answer to this question is very simple. Undoubtedly, fairy tales are of great importance during the development of a child. But it is the poetic form that makes children show interest in “adult words” due to its rhythm and melodiousness. Such reading encourages children to begin trying to pronounce the remembered sounds out loud.

The benefits of poetry

Poems, like fairy tales, perfectly develop children's imagination. But at an early age it plays an important role in the development of the child. None of us can imagine as wonderfully as children. But without the ability to dream, it is impossible to set a goal and achieve it even in adulthood. Without imagination, children will not be able to have fun, and what child can be considered happy if he did not spend time playing games as a child?

Poems also develop memory in children. It’s not for nothing that at school we study the works of poets in such large quantities. After all, there will be no point in learning if when a child leaves school, all knowledge disappears from his head.

At a younger age, light, short poems are suitable for memory development, for example S.Ya. Marshak "Where did the sparrow have dinner?"

Where did you have lunch, sparrow?

At the zoo with the animals.

I had lunch first

Behind bars by the lion.

Took some refreshment from the fox.

I drank some water at the walrus's.

I ate carrots from an elephant.

I ate millet with the crane.

Stayed with a rhinoceros

I ate a little bran.

I went to the feast

In tailed kangaroos.

I was at a festive dinner

At the shaggy bear.

A toothy crocodile

Almost swallowed me.

Experts believe that such works teach children to correctly build logical chains.

It is the poetic form that will become an indispensable assistant for the child when he learns to read, since rhyming repeated phrases are much easier to pronounce than awkward and difficult sentences in prose.

The benefits of poetry for practicing pronunciation are known. If you regularly read them to children, starting from an early age, they will not need a speech therapist later. The work “Where Did the Sparrow Have Dinner?” is perfect for this purpose.

Don’t forget about the process of raising children while reading funny rhymes. After all, every work, even if it is very short, carries the main idea, which the poet conveys to his little readers in a playful way. Psychologists have proven that it is in the poetic version that children best perceive an “instructive lesson.”

“Where did the sparrow have lunch?”, author - S.Ya. Marshak

Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak is a famous Soviet poet and an excellent writer of many children's books. Our parents grew up on his work. Children love him very much, because his playful poems are always so interesting and instructive.

The author in this poem teaches children perseverance through the example of the main character, who shows ingenuity: he remembers that the zoo always has a lot of food for animals and goes there to have lunch. A sparrow has to show a lot of courage not to be afraid to climb into the cage of a lion, fox and even a crocodile! So the poem “Where the Sparrow Dined” also teaches courage to its little readers.

A cartoon was made based on the poem in 1983.