I was asked to make some kind of ranking in my professional field. If there is something I can feel like a professional in, it is in reading poetry to children, after all, I am a father of many children (I also have a document, although it is slightly outdated). The Children's Canon includes poems without which I cannot imagine raising children. In order not to get lost in thought, I set myself several restrictions. Firstly, these are poems written in Russian (the wonderful translation lines were decisively discarded). Secondly, these are author’s poems (I had to sacrifice the immortal “One. Two. Three. Four. Five. A bunny went out for a walk...”, and “Chizhik-Pyzhik” at the same time), more precisely, by famous authors. Thirdly, there is only one poem from each author in the Children's Canon. The problem of choosing one poem for some authors becomes a real torment, but more on that later.
1. “Ruslan and Lyudmila”
Lukomorye has green oak;
Golden chain on the oak tree:
Both day and night the cat is a scientist
Everything goes round and round in a chain;
He goes to the right - the song starts,
To the left - he tells a fairy tale.
There are miracles there: a goblin wanders there,
A mermaid sits on the branches...
A.S. Pushkin
We have to start with Pushkin. But what to do if Alexander Sergeevich wrote for children and, as usual, brilliantly. It is impossible to choose just one poem. There is also “Three girls were spinning under the window late in the evening” or “Once upon a time there was a priest with a cotton forehead,” and so on. I finally stopped at the beginning of the poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila” for one simple reason. These are the first lines I learned by heart. It seems that I was three years old, and I did not quite understand what it meant: “There the forests and valleys are full of visions, the waves of tamazar will rush in”...
2. “What is good and what is bad?”
The little son came to his father,
and the little one asked:
- What is good
and what is bad?..
V. V. Mayakovsky
Another adult classic in the Children's canon. It’s easier to choose “the one and only” from him. There is, of course, also “Every page is either an elephant or a lioness” (“The animal is cold in winter. The animal is from America. I saw everyone. It’s time to go home. Goodbye, animals!”), but “Little One” is somehow more fundamental and philosophical . In the end, everyone knows “Krokha”.
By the way, not all geniuses of “adult poetry” were good at children's poems. For example, I won’t even include Mandelstam’s “Primus” or “Mukha” in the canon, but I won’t even mention them.
3. “Ivan Toporyzhkin”
Ivan Toporyzhkin went hunting,
The poodle went with him, jumping over the fence,
Ivan, like a log, fell into a swamp,
And the poodle drowned in the river like an ax...
Daniil Kharms
Daniil Kharms can be forgiven for anything. Even the phrase: “Poisoning children is cruel. But something needs to be done with them!” But it’s difficult to imagine that after this phrase you can still write beautiful children’s poems. But it is so.
I really wanted to include Evgeniy Schwartz in the Children’s canon with his “A pretty puppy was walking along the path. He carried a shortbread pie in his right leg to his bride, his beloved, so that she and she could quickly devour it.” But for Schwartz, children's poems are more of an accident, and no one really knows about them. In short, from this galaxy there is neither Schwartz, nor Oleinikov, nor Vvedensky. Only Kharms.
4. "Phone"
My phone rang.
- Who's talking?
- Where?
- From a camel?
- What do you need?
- Chocolate.
- For whom?
- For my son.
- How much should I send?
- Yes, about five pounds
Or six:
He can't eat anymore
He's still small for me!..
Korney Chukovsky
Chukovsky is the absolute pinnacle of Russian children's poetry. And he, unlike the previous ones, is primarily a children's poet. It is impossible to choose one, so to speak, best poem from him. There is also “Cockroach”, “Fly-Tsokotukha”, “Aibolit”, “Moidodyr” and much more. The only thing that we have to admit with some bitterness is that some lines have become not entirely understandable for today’s children. What is “the commander of the washbasins and the commander of the washcloths”?
Chukovsky opens the galaxy of Soviet children's poets. There are many, many of them, I can’t name them all, but I will definitely name three more. There is simply such a Soviet mini-canon: Chukovsky, Marshak, Barto, Mikhalkov.
5. “He’s so absent-minded”
Once upon a time there lived an absent-minded man
On Basseynaya street.
He sat down on his bed in the morning,
I started putting on my shirt,
He put his hands into the sleeves -
It turned out that these were trousers.
That's how absent-minded
From Basseynaya Street!
Samuel Marshak
Samuel Marshak is a wonderful translator, including children’s poems (“Humpty Dumpty” and others). He doesn’t have too many of his own children’s poems of this level. In addition to “Abstracted,” undoubtedly, “Baggage” (“A lady checked in a sofa, a suitcase, a suitcase, a painting, a basket, a cardboard box and a small dog) and “Mail” (“Who is knocking on my door) will remain in eternity as luggage.” With a thick shoulder bag"). The rest is perhaps debatable.
6. “Uncle Styopa”
In the house there are eight fraction one
At the Ilyich outpost
There lived a tall citizen
Nicknamed Kalancha,
By surname Stepanov
And named Stepan,
From the regional giants
The most important giant...
Sergey Mikhalkov
No matter how you feel about Sergei Mikhalkov (I heard that not everyone loves him), without “Uncle Styopa”, “Song of Friends (“We are going, going, going to distant lands”) and the magnificent children’s dialogue about “And we have gas in our apartment , and you?" an honest Children's canon will not work. And with us everything is fair. In general, you, comrade, “sit on the floor, you, comrade, don’t care.”
7. "Chatterbox"
What chatterbox Lida, they say,
Vovka made this up.
When should I chat?
I have no time to chat!
Drama club, photo club,
Horkruzhk - I want to sing,
For a drawing class
Agniya Barto
Agnia Barto has several amazing poems. For the little ones, “Toys” are short poems about Tanya who is crying, a bunny that was abandoned, a bear that was torn off, a bull that rocks. Well, in general, she is a master of sound and intonation. If you don't believe me, read "Chatterbox" aloud. By the way, “Lyubochka” (“Little blue skirt, ribbon in a braid”) was sung by “Masha and the Bears”. So it's still modern.
8. "Pony"
Pony rides girls
Pony rides boys
Pony runs in circles
And he counts circles in his mind...
Yunna Moritz
In addition to the official Soviet canon, there was also a Soviet intellectual canon. As a rule, it included “adult poets”, as if at the same time writing for children. Here we must name Boris Zakhoder (primarily a great translator), Genrikh Sapgir, but in the Children's Canon I included Yunna Moritz and Vadim Levin, whose fame is also supported by music. First of all, I remember the songs based on their poems that the Nikitins sang. I will still quote Sapgir’s wonderful poem: “Once upon a time, at the bottom of a glass, a Dwarf met a Giant. - How did you get into the glass? - the Giant was surprised.
9. "The Story of Jonathan Bill"
Jonathan Bill
who killed
in Cherny Bor,
Jonathan Bill
who bought
last year
Jonathan Bill
who swam away
to Aunt Trot, -
this same Jonathan Bill
I really loved the compote.
Vadim Levin
Vadim Levin’s amazing book “The Stupid Horse”, which became, as I already said, a children’s classic for the Soviet intelligentsia. It just so happens that English rhymes are almost like family for Russian children and their intelligent parents. Marshak, Zakhoder, and other translators did their best. “Robin-Bobin” or “Little Willie-Winky” is completely ours, albeit translated. Levin went further and simply composed Russian English poems. That is, if you are a pedant and a bore, it’s like the English ones. Or, as Levin himself writes, “my translations of ancient English ballads included in this book are so new that the English have not yet written their originals.”
10. "Fly"
A fly drowns in sweets
In a jar on the window.
And there is no joy in this
Neither the fly nor me.
Oleg Grigoriev
In my opinion, it’s wonderful, even despite the fact that the conjunction “and” before “not for me” is clearly superfluous, at least from the point of view of a linguist. Oleg Grigoriev is a poet who was not officially recognized during his lifetime, but, as they now like to say, a cult poet. He is considered one of the creators of the genre of “black rhymes”: “I asked the electrician Petrov: Why did you wrap the wire around your neck? Petrov doesn’t answer anything, he just quietly shakes his bots.” And also this: “Here is a beautiful woman, lying naked in the bushes, another would have raped her, but I just kicked her.”
I forgot to warn you: do not read the last poem to children under any circumstances. They can understand correctly.
11. "Red"
If a boy caulks,
Is it the boy's fault?
What was born red-haired, freckled?
But, however, from an early age
There's no way for the boy
And the malicious guys shout:
- Ginger! Ginger! Freckled!
Killed grandpa with a shovel! —
But he didn’t beat his grandfather,
And he loved his grandfather...
E. Uspensky
Eduard Uspensky is a genius, a titan, the father of today's children's poetry. The only children's poet approaching the scale of the great Korney. For his texts from the late Soviet period (the choice of “Red” as the “best” poem, of course, is arbitrary), he can be forgiven for post-perestroika vacillations in search of relevance and even a new translation of “Carlson.” Just business, apparently.
12. “Bad advice”
Never wash your hands
Neck, ears and face.
This is a stupid thing to do
Doesn't lead to anything.
Your hands will get dirty again
Neck, ears and face,
So why waste energy?
Time to waste...
Grigory Oster
Grigory Oster is perhaps the only generally recognized pinnacle of post-Soviet children's poetry (he wrote, of course, before, but not so much was published). It's everywhere, and I know it annoys some people. But the irritation will go away, but the bad advice will remain. “You better brake for dad, dad is soft, he will forgive.”
13. "Family Secret"
Mom is a zebra, dad is a moose.
How did they do it?
Renata Mukha
Again a fly (in addition to the clicking sound and Grigorievskaya), but this time it’s a surname. Renata Mukha is an author much less famous than those listed above, although she has been writing for a long time and wonderfully. So point 13 can be considered a kind of subjective bonus. There could have been lines from Mikhail Yasnov, Marina Boroditskaya, Tim Sobakin or someone else, but I had to choose. I chose Renata Mucha. Moreover, adults will certainly be interested in her lines.
Poems for children small small less
Today on the Internet on children's sites you can easily find poems small small small for the smallest children,very short and easy to remember. Memorizing poems from memory in childhood is not only a teaching moment, but also an educational one. Parents and teachers know that learn poetry- it is very important. This broadens the child’s horizons, teaches him to perceive poetry, develops speech and shapes the culture of the little person. Especially in this way, memory develops and trains, that is, a small child develops by memorizing simple poems, smaller than small, small, consisting of two or three short sentences.
You need to memorize a poem expressively. That's just how a child is made. If all this is done without feelings and emotions, the poem will seem nonsense to the baby. By the way, some kindergarten teachers do not particularly care about expressive reading. After all, there are a lot of children in the group. Collective learning turns into monotonous sound. This is the wrong approach.
It will be of little use. You need to learn poetry individually. If a child is not imbued with poetic beauty from childhood, then when he grows up, he is unlikely to be interested in poetry. We have prepared for your little children very short and simple poems small small less, characterizing certain properties of objects and in an accessible form describing the rules of behavior necessary for the development of a child.
The poetic motif is perceived from infancy, so you need to start working with children as early as possible. Children listen to poetry with great pleasure. They perceive them much easier than prose.
Most children's authors write their works in poetry. Unlike prose, poetry does not tire and is deposited in the subconscious. Since children remember poems very easily, parents should take this into account. Poems improve memory, and therefore increase the child’s overall level of learning. A good memory will help you learn the material you have learned more easily at school. The sooner you and your child start learning poetry, the easier it will be for him to remember formulas in school lessons.
To make the poem easier to remember, it must correspond to the age of the baby. You should not force a small child to learn poetry for adults. It would be much better to use children's classic works written by Mikhalkov, Barto, Chukovsky.
You also need to pay attention to the child’s temperament. It is better for active children to choose rhythmic, cheerful poems, and for calm, slow children - smooth ones. Of course, at school there will no longer be such distinctions, but for now, at the beginning, it is worth acting this way. You will find different options for short poems for children, small or small, at the end of the article.
It will be better learn poetry not just like that, but for one of our relatives and friends. For example, as a gift for mom, dad, grandma, grandpa. And only at seven or eight years old should the child be gradually taught that poetry needs to be learned for himself.
The best poems for little children to memorize. Make sure your child tries to read poetry with expression.
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Svetlana Goryacheva
How happy parents are when their child not only begins to speak, but also read poetry. Remember your childhood, the baby was put on a chair and asked to read a poem to the relatives or friends present. The parents are happy, and the audience applauds and shouts: “Bravo!”
Which rhyme should I choose so that my child can learn it quickly and without pain? The well-known poems for little ones by Agnia Barto immediately come to mind, but perhaps there is something else that is easily and simply remembered by young children of two and three years old.
Let's remember our childhood again, what did you and I remember so easily that we practically didn’t have to memorize it? These were simple “street” rhymes, counting rhymes, sayings, and teasers, which it was unclear who composed them. All this is called children's folklore.
But how to learn a rhyme with a small child who has just learned to speak? Tell the child: “Sit on a chair, we will now learn a rhyme.” - no need. The baby still won’t sit on a chair for more than 2-3 minutes. Recite your chosen rhyme while walking, for example while you are walking to the playground. You need to read it 2-4 times. Go back to the house, read the already familiar poem 2-4 times again. A child is playing with Legos or assembling some kind of construction set - this is also a good time to read our poem 2-4 times, since small movements of the fingers are associated with the area of the brain that is responsible for memory and speech. Consequently, memorization is more efficient. Well, during other regime moments you can also read a poem, for example, while swimming. And at some point, our baby will first finish finishing the last lines of the rhyme, and then he will be able to recite the entire poem.
How many poems can our baby remember? Isn't it harmful to know a lot of poems? Everyone knows that when memorizing poetry, we kill two birds with one stone - we develop memory and speech. All this will be useful for our baby when he goes to school.
Dear parents and educators, I offer you samples of children's folklore in my processing.
Two dolls.
Lali, lali, lali,
Two dolls were walking.
In the zoological garden
We lost our gloves.
One good boy
I picked up the gloves.
And the dolls shouted:
"Stole! Stole! Stole!"
Bear.
The clubfooted bear is walking through the forest, (step from foot to foot in one place)
He collects the cones and puts them in his pocket. (we bend down to “pick up” something from the floor and “put” it in our pocket)
Suddenly a cone fell
Right in the bear's forehead! (we hit ourselves on the forehead with our hand)
Mishka got angry (make an angry face)
And with your foot - stomp! (stomp our foot)
Sweetie.
Mom, dad! I want to eat!
I don't want bread and butter!
And the candy - oh!
I won't give it to anyone!
Bunny.
One two three four five.
The bunny went out for a walk.
Suddenly the hunter runs out,
He shoots straight at the bunny.
Bang Bang! Missed!
The gray bunny ran away.
Bear and Bunny.
(counting book)
Bear and Bunny are flying on a plane,
A bear and a bunny read in flight.
The bear and the bunny flew to China,
If you don't believe it, then fly out!
Rain.
Rain, rain,
Drip-drip-drip.
Don't wet the paths
I'll still go for a walk!
The children's poems section contains poems for almost all occasions in a child's life. There are many poems by Russian children's poets here. And for those children who know English, a category of English rhymes has been created.
In the Poems category you can find poems that we have memorized since childhood for the New Year, the Eighth of March and other holidays. :) Poems by such authors as A. Barto, B. Zakhodera, E. Blaginina, K. Avdeenko, K Chukovsky, S. Marshak, S. Mikhalkov, E. Uspensky, etc., without whom it is impossible to imagine our childhood. :) There is also a small collection of children's poems in English.
| Poems for children | Poems for mom | |||
| This category contains some of the most beloved and popular children's poems in Russian. | Mom is the closest, dearest person for every child. Here are collected nursery rhymes for mom, in particular, for March 8th. | |||
| Poems for dad | ||||
| Dad is also the dearest and most beloved person for the baby. To congratulate dad, or just give him a pleasant surprise, you just need to read him a poem :) | New Year is the most favorite children's holiday, because Santa Claus can only be seen then. So learn rhymes and tell them at the Christmas tree or at the New Year's party. | |||
| Poems about summer | ||||
| All parents want their child to learn English from childhood. Children's rhymes in English will really help with this. |  |
Summer is the most desirable time for absolutely everyone, especially for children. After all, it’s time for the long-awaited vacation! | ||
| Author's poems | ||||
| Agnia Lvovna Barto (1906 - 1981) is perhaps the most famous poetess, who is known and loved by all the children of our country. Her poems are incredibly interesting, understandable, light and funny. | Boris Vladimirovich Zakhoder (1918 - 2000) - Russian poet, writer, translator. He translated "Winnie the Pooh and Everything Everything Everything." The heroes of his works are kids, letters, but more often - animals. His poems and fairy tales are always ironic and funny. | |||
| Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak (1887 - 1964) - Russian classic of children's poetry and literature, translator. In fact, he is the founder of Soviet children's literature, free from church traditions. | Eduard Nikolaevich Uspensky (1937) - Russian writer, poet, author of children's books. Everyone knows his characters - Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka, the cat Matroskin and Uncle Fyodor. | |||
| Sergei Vladimirovich Mikhalkov (1913 - 2009) - classic of Russian children's literature and poetry, author of the text of the Russian anthem. "Uncle Styopa" is one of the most beloved children's poems. | Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky (1882 - 1969) - famous Russian poet, translator. He is famous for children's fairy tales in verse and prose, such as “The Cockroach”, “Moidodyr”. | |||
| Kirill Avdeenko (1977) - young Kiev children's writer, poet. Known for his funny, kind and at the same time instructive poems and fairy tales. | Elena Aleksandrovna Blaginina (1903 - 1989) - children's poetess, writer, translator. Her poems sparkle with humor, and all children adore her playful “teasers,” counting rhymes, songs and fairy tales. | |||
| Poems by Irina Tokmakova | ||||
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Irina Petrovna Tokmakova (1929) - children's poet, prose writer, translator of children's works. |
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Who among us is not familiar with Pushkin’s immortal lines “By the Lukomorye there is a green oak tree” or the equally popular children’s rhymes about Uncle Styopa? And the funny little animals that Korney Chukovsky described - all this will be interesting to our children today.
Poetic forms of works are almost as old as the concept of literature itself. Already two thousand years ago, the first poets composed poems whose purpose was sacred, telling in rhyme about the heroes of epics and folk tales. There is a version that the oldest poetic text, the original of which has never been found, is the “Song of Gilgamesh” from the Sumerian culture.
Ancient tales in poetic form gradually acquired “fairy-tale” properties, and in the Middle Ages, poems about heroes of folk legends were in great demand among children. The rhythmic and beautifully told tales were pleasing to the ear and developed in children respect for their culture. Years passed, and poems for children began to be written separately; a separate section of literature already included comic poems, educational poems, riddle poems, therapeutic poems - tongue twisters and with alternating voiced consonants.
You can start learning poetry with your child at a very early age. After all, the same lullaby is, in fact, a verse. The main goal of such activities is to develop the child’s memory. A little later, at the age of 4-5 years, when the child has already mastered his speech well enough, you can begin to purposefully memorize poetry. The ideal choice would be funny children's poems from Samuil Marshak and Agnia Barto. These children's poems will help instill in your child a love for all living things and teach them to do good. Closer to school you can study the poems of Pushkin and Lermontov. Children's poems will be the first step to studying elements of folk art. Any educated person should know by heart at least parts of the poems of the great poets of his country.
The main thing in this matter is not to overdo it and help your child as much as possible. Exercise every day, but little by little. Don't force your child to learn a verse if he doesn't want to. Be sure to read the poems with expression, do not hide your emotions, try to arouse the child’s interest. And let your child learn to read poetry with expression - then he will be guaranteed first places in the reading competition. Memorizing poetic lines in early preschool age will bring great benefits - it will be easier for the child to study at school and memorize long poems.
All young children have amazing memories. So why further develop it? Yes it is. But children remember well only what arouses their sincere interest. This is why it is difficult for schoolchildren to learn the poems of our great poets. We, adults, understand how beautiful they (poems) are, but children don’t even understand the meaning of some of the words from them. Therefore, parents must explain to the child the meaning of those words that he does not know.
Nurturing beauty in children should be comprehensive. Poems as part of the world cultural heritage are very important in this complex.
A collection of children's poems: poems for the holidays, educational and developmental poems, original and thematic poems for children.
Train your child's memory!
Not every child can patiently listen to the end of a fairy tale or other prosaic story. While children's poems do not bore you with monotony, the rhyme in them jumps like over bumps, easily holding the attention of the little listener. It’s amazing how quickly children memorize rhymes; once you say them a few times, they can already finish the ending with you. Be sure to use this ability by training your memory from childhood, you will greatly simplify your child’s learning at school. Start with the poems of Agnia Barto in the “Toys” section, look for small quatrains, they are perfectly memorable. You still remember most of them by heart. Right?
How to learn a poem for the holiday?
In kindergarten and school, your child will more than once be faced with the need to recite poetry in front of an audience. This could be a New Year's party or an ordinary lesson, in any case, it is important that he is not afraid of it. But all you need to do is pay a little attention to it.
The poem must be learned in advance and repeated at home casually, without focusing on the importance of the event. For example, you can say: “remember, you and I learned a great poem? Well, tell it to me.” Children's poems are usually simple and the child will quickly remember them. You can rehearse by telling a poem to your dad or mom, grandfather or grandmother. You need to ask to speak loudly and with expression, but in no case should you lecture or interrupt during the speech. How your peers and you react to a little artist’s first performance is of great importance, so it’s best to start with relatives. By telling a few rhymes to people you know and receiving a friendly reaction, you will give your child confidence. Poems for children at matinees are an excellent way to train public speaking skills.