Small works about nature and man. Stories about nature by Russian writers

Yana Kazakova
Lesson summary “Man and Nature”

Nature and man.

Target: explain to children the relationship man and nature(water man, man-air) survival conditions person.

Tasks: To cultivate love and respect for nature, wisely spend what is in it, protect and protect Nature. Accumulation of knowledge about living and nonliving things nature, interconnection and interaction of all natural objects ecology.

Preliminary work: 1. Looking at illustrations and talking with children.

2. Conducting an experiment with water (dirty or clean water).

Progress:

1. Story-conversation.

Educator: Guys, look what I brought you! This painting shows nature, which surrounds us. Do you know what is nature?

Nature is that what us surrounds: sun, flowers, plants, animals.

And what do you think, man relates to nature? Is it part of it? Why?

Children's options.

Educator: Yes, that's right, it does. Man was also created by nature.

She can be alive or inanimate nature. What do you think belongs to inanimate nature?

Children: sun, water

Educator: What about living things? nature?

Children: animals, plants, etc.

Educator: Guys, what do you think are the conditions necessary for living life? nature?

Children: Options (we need air, water).

Educator: Why do we need air?

Children: In order to breathe.

Educator: In order for all people to be healthy, what kind of air is needed?

Children: Clean.

Educator: For example, there is a lot of dust in our room and therefore the air is not clean. And in order for it to be clean, you need to ventilate the room and do wet cleaning. Who do you think pollutes the air? The air, guys, is polluted by factories (shows illustrations, because they release harmful and poisonous gases. Cars that release exhaust gases from exhaust pipes also pollute the air.

Educator: Why do plants and animals need clean air?

Children: To breathe.

Educator: Why is polluted air dangerous?

Children: Dangerous because they have difficulty breathing.

Educator: Where is the cleanest air?

Children: In the forest, at the sea, in the mountains.

Educator: Guys, what do you think he can’t live without? Human?

Children: Without water and air.

Educator: For what man needs water? Why do they drink it?

Children: They drink water because they cannot live without water.

Educator: Guys, what kind of water is considered clean?

Children: Pure water - transparent, no unpleasant odor, unpleasant taste.

Educator: Sometimes it seems to us that the water is clean, for example, in a stream or lake.

But you should not drink it, it can be dangerous to health, and sometimes even to life. It's dirty. And who pollutes it?

Children: People.

Educator: Many people throw water in the trash, factories dump waste. The water supply comes from the river, but this water can only be drunk, only boiled, because harmful substances and microbes still remain in this water.

2. Physical education moment : A game "Frogs and Heron" .

Here from a hatched rotten place

Frogs jumped into the water.

They will croak: "Kwa-ke-ke".

There will be rain along the river.

Educator: And now we will conduct an experiment. Pour into one jar clean water, and to the other dirty water. We filter the dirty water through a strainer - you see, the water is still dirty. This is the kind of water you can see in a river, lake, and how bad it is for fish, plants and other inhabitants in such water. They may die.

Educator: Each of us has running water at home. And you and I wash our faces every day, wash the dishes, drink water, but we still need to save water. How?

Children: Close the tap.

Educator: In order for all bodies of water to remain clean, there is no need to pollute the water, it is necessary to protect rivers and lakes. Therefore, we need to teach everyone not to pollute and conserve water.

3. After the story/conversation, the teacher asks questions children:

1. What will happen to us if there is no water? Why?

2. Why man needs water?

3. Why can’t you drink water from a river, lake, etc.?

4. What needs to be done to make the air clean?

Publications on the topic:

Ecological stand. Promoting environmental ethics. Environmental education is the education of morality, spirituality, and intelligence.

Interactive game “Man and Nature” Municipal budget preschool educational institution Petrozavodsk urban district " Kindergarten combined type No. 91.

Goal: to summarize children’s knowledge about nature conservation, about the relationship between man and nature; ; learn to express your emotions when performing tasks; develop.

Summary of the final lesson in the preschool class “Man versus the Brain” Summary of the final lesson in the pre-school preparation class, the game “Man vs. Brain” Objectives: consolidate counting in forward and reverse order.

Summary of GCD on the natural world “What is nature? Living and inanimate nature" Goal: To teach children to distinguish natural objects from artificial, man-made objects of living nature - from objects of inanimate nature.

Summary of the lesson “I am a person in the world” for the preparatory group Goal: - to form an idea of ​​yourself as a person; Objectives: --Introduce children to various manifestations emotions. Teach children to differentiate.

Stories about nature in the form of short notes introduce the surrounding world of plants and animals, the life of the forest and seasonal phenomena nature observed in different time of the year.

Small sketches of each season convey the mood of nature in small works written by the creators of Russian prose. Small stories, sketches and notes are collected on the pages of our website in a small collection short stories about nature for children and schoolchildren.

Nature in short stories by M. M. Prishvin

Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin is an unsurpassed master of the short genre, in his notes he so subtly describes nature in just two or three sentences. Short stories by M. M. Prishvin are sketches about nature, observations of plants and animals, short sketches from the life of the forest at different times of the year. From the book "Seasons" (selected sketches):

Nature in short stories by K. D. Ushinsky

Konstantin Dmitrievich Ushinsky conveyed his pedagogical experience, ideas, quotes that became the basis for human upbringing in his works. His tales about nature convey the limitless possibilities of the native word and are filled with patriotic feelings for native land, teach kindness and respect for the environment and nature.

Stories about plants and animals

Tales of the Seasons

Nature in short stories by K. G. Paustovsky

An incredible description of nature in its various manifestations, using all the richness of the Russian language dictionary can be found in short stories Paustovsky Konstantin Georgievich. In surprisingly light and accessible lines, the author’s prose, like the music of a composer, comes to life in the stories for a brief moment, transporting the reader into the living world of Russian nature.

Nature in short stories by A. N. Tumbasov

Anatoly Nikolaevich Tumbasov's sketches about nature are small essays for each season. Together with the author, take your own little trip to amazing world nature.

Seasons in the stories of Russian writers

Short stories by Russian writers, whose lines are inherently united by a feeling of love for their native nature.

Spring

Summer

Autumn

Winter

Retelling a story requires not only memorizing the text, but also thoughtfulness about the words and the content of the story.

Man and nature in domestic and foreign literature

Russian literature, be it classical or modern, has always been sensitive to all changes occurring in nature and the world around us. Poisoned air, rivers, earth - everything is crying out for help, for protection. Our complex and contradictory times have given rise to a huge number of problems: economic, moral and others. However, according to many, the most important among them is the environmental problem. Our future and the future of our children depends on its decision. The current one can be called a catastrophe of the century ecological state environment. Who is guilty? A man who forgot about his roots, who forgot where he came from, a predatory man who sometimes became worse than the beast. A number of works by such famous writers as Chingiz Aitmatov, Valentin Rasputin, Viktor Astafiev are devoted to this problem.

The name Rasputin is one of the brightest and most memorable among writers of the 20th century. My appeal to the work of this writer is not an accident. It is the works of Valentin Rasputin that leave no one indifferent or indifferent. He was one of the first to raise the problem related to the relationship between man and nature. This problem is pressing, since life on the Planet, the health and well-being of all humanity is connected with the environment.

In the story “Farewell to Matera” the writer reflects on many things. The subject of the description is the island on which the village of Matera is located. Matera is a real island with the old woman Daria, with grandfather Yegor, with Bogodul, but at the same time it is an image of a centuries-old way of life that is now leaving - forever? And the name emphasizes the maternal principle, that is, man and nature are closely connected. The island must go under water because a dam is being built here. That is, on the one hand, this is correct, because the population of the country must be provided with electricity. On the other hand, this is a gross interference of people in the natural course of events, that is, in the life of nature.

Something terrible happened to all of us, Rasputin believes, and this is not special case, this is not just the story of a village, something very important in a person’s soul is being destroyed, and for the writer it becomes absolutely clear that if today you can hit the cross in the cemetery with an ax, then tomorrow it will be possible to hit an old man in the face with a boot.

The death of Matera is the destruction of not just the old way of life, but the collapse of the entire world order. The symbol of Matera becomes the image of the eternal tree - larch, that is, the king is a tree. And there is a belief that the royal foliage is what anchors the island to the river bottom, to common land, and as long as he stands, Matera will stand.

The work of Chingiz Aitmatov “The Scaffold” cannot leave the reader indifferent. The author allowed himself to speak out on the most painful, topical issues of our time. This is a scream novel, a novel written in blood, this is a desperate appeal addressed to one and all. In "The Scaffold" the she-wolf and the child die together, and

their blood mixes, proving the unity of all living things, despite all the existing disproportions. A person armed with technology often does not think about what consequences his actions will have for society and future generations. The destruction of nature is inevitably combined with the destruction of everything human in people.

Literature teaches that cruelty to animals and nature turns into a serious danger for the person himself for his physical and moral health

Thus, the relationships between man and nature on the pages of books are diverse. When reading about others, we unwittingly try on characters and situations for ourselves. And, perhaps, we also think: how do we ourselves relate to nature? Shouldn't something be changed in this regard? (505 words)

Human and nature

How many beautiful poems, paintings, songs have been created about nature... The beauty of the nature around us has always inspired poets, writers, composers, artists, and they all depicted its splendor and mystery in their own way.

Indeed, since ancient times, man and nature have formed a single whole; they are very closely interconnected. But, unfortunately, man considers himself superior to all other living beings and proclaims himself the king of nature. He forgot that he himself is part of living nature, and continues to behave aggressively towards it. Forests are cut down every year, tons of waste are dumped into the water, the air is poisoned by the exhaust of millions of cars... We forget that the reserves in the bowels of the planet will one day run out, and we continue to predatoryly extract minerals.

Nature is a huge treasure trove of wealth, but man only treats it as a consumer. This is the story in the stories of V. P. Astafiev “The Tsar Fish”. The main theme is the interaction between man and nature. The writer tells how white and red fish are exterminated on the Yenisei, animals and birds are destroyed. The climax is the dramatic story that happened one day on the river with the poacher Zinovy ​​Utrobin. While checking the traps where the huge sturgeon had fallen, he fell out of the boat and became entangled in his own nets. In this extreme situation, on the verge of life and death, he remembers his earthly sins, remembers how he once offended his fellow villager Glashka, sincerely repents of what he did, begs for mercy, mentally turning to Glashka, and to the king fish, and to everything white light. And all this gives him “some kind of liberation not yet comprehended by the mind.” Ignatyich manages to escape. Nature itself taught him a lesson here. Thus, V. Astafiev returns our consciousness to Goethe’s thesis: “Nature is always right.”

Ch. T. Aitmatov also talks about the environmental disaster awaiting man in his warning novel “The Scaffold”. This novel is a cry, despair, a call to come to your senses, to realize your responsibility for everything that has become so aggravated and thickened in the world. Through ecological problems touched upon in the novel, the writer strives to achieve primarily both the problems of the state human soul. The novel begins with the theme of a wolf family, which then develops into the theme of the death of the Mogonkums through the fault of man: a man breaks into the savannah as a criminal, as a predator. He senselessly and rudely destroys all living things that exist in the savannah. And this combat ends tragically.

Thus, man is an integral part of nature, and we all need to understand that only with caring and careful attitude to nature, to the environment, a beautiful future can await us. (355 words)

Direction:

What does nature teach man?

(Based on the work of V. Astafiev)

So that one day in that house

Before the big road

Say: - I was a leaf in the forest!

N. Rubtsov

In the 70s and 80s of our century, the lyre of poets and prose writers sounded powerfully in defense surrounding nature. Writers went to the microphone, wrote articles for newspapers, putting aside work on works of art. They defended our lakes and rivers, forests and fields. It was a reaction to the dramatic urbanization of our lives. Villages went bankrupt - cities grew. As always in our country, all this was done on a grand scale, and the chips flew with might and main. Now the gloomy results of the damage caused by hot heads to our nature have already been summed up.

Writers who are fighters for ecology were all born near nature, know and love it. This is the well-known prose writer Viktor Astafiev here and abroad. I want to explore this topic using the example of V. Astafiev’s story “The Tsar Fish”.

The author calls the hero of V. Astafiev’s story “The Tsar Fish” “master”. Indeed, Ignatyich knows how to do everything better and faster than anyone else. He is distinguished by thrift and accuracy. The relationship between the brothers was difficult. The commander not only did not hide his hostility towards his brother, but also showed it at the first opportunity. Ignatyich tried not to pay attention to it. Actually, he treated all the residents of the village with some superiority and even condescension. The main character of the story, of course, is far from ideal: he is dominated by greed and a consumerist attitude towards nature. The author brings the main character face to face with nature. For all his sins before her, nature presents Ignatyich with a severe test. It happened like this: Ignatyich goes fishing on the Yenisei and, not content with small fish, waiting for sturgeon. At that moment, Ignatyich saw a fish at the very side of the boat. The fish immediately seemed ominous to Ignatyich. His soul seemed to split into two: one half suggested letting go of the fish and thereby saving himself, but the other did not want to miss such a sturgeon, because the king fish comes only once in a lifetime. The fisherman's passion takes precedence over prudence. Ignatyich decides to catch the sturgeon at any cost. But due to carelessness, he ends up in the water, on the hook of his own gear. Ignatyich feels that he is drowning, that the fish is pulling himto the bottom, but he can do nothing to save himself. In the face of death, the fish becomes a kind of creature for him. The hero, who has never believed in God, at this moment turns to him for help. Ignatyich remembers what he tried to forget throughout his life: a disgraced girl who was doomed to eternal suffering. It turned out that nature, also in a sense a “woman,” took revenge on him for the harm he had caused. Nature took cruel revenge on man. Ignatyich asks for forgiveness for the harm caused to the girl. And when the fish lets go of Ignatyich, he feels that his soul is freed from the sin that has weighed on him throughout his life. It turned out that nature fulfilled the divine task: it called the sinner to repentance and for this absolved him of his sin. The author leaves hope for a life without sin not only to his hero, but also to all of us, because no one on earth is immune from conflicts with nature, and therefore with their own soul.

So I want to conclude:Indeed, man himself is a part of nature. Nature is the world around us, where everything is interconnected, where everything is important. And a person must live in harmony with the world around him. Nature is powerful and defenseless, mysterious and sensitive. You need to live in peace with her and learn to respect her. (517 words)

Man and nature in domestic and world literature

A person comes into this world not to say what it is like, but to make it better.

Since ancient times, man and nature have been closely interconnected. There was a time when our distant ancestors not only respected nature, but personified and even deified it. So, fire, water, earth, trees, air, and thunder and lightning were considered deities. To appease them, people performed ritual sacrifices.

The theme of man, as well as the theme of nature, is quite often found in both domestic and world literature. K.G. Paustovsky and M.M. Prishvin showed the unity of man and nature as harmonious coexistence.

Why is this particular theme used so often in the stories of these particular writers? One reason is that they are mediators of realism in literature. This topic has been considered by many writers, including foreign ones, from a variety of angles, both with sarcasm and with deep regret.

The great Russian writer A.P. Chekhov repeatedly presented the motives of man and nature in his stories. One of the leading themes of his works is the mutual influence of man and nature. It is observed especially in such a work as “Ionych”. But this topic was also considered by such writers as Gogol, Lermontov, Dostoevsky.

In B. Vasiliev’s work “Don’t Shoot White Swans,” the main character Yegor Polushkin has an infinite love for nature, always works conscientiously, lives peacefully, but always turns out to be guilty. The reason for this is that Yegor could not disturb the harmony of nature, he was afraid to invade the living world. But people did not understand him; they considered him unsuited to life. He said that man is not the king of nature, but her eldest son. In the end, he dies at the hands of those who do not understand the beauty of nature, who are accustomed only to conquering it. But my son will grow up. Who can replace his father, will respect and cherish native land. This topic was also considered by foreign writers.

wild nature Severa comes to life under the pen of the American fiction writer D. London. Often the heroes of the works are representatives of the animal world (“White Fang” by D. London or the stories of E. Seton-Thompson). And even the narration itself is told as if from their perspective, the world is seen through their eyes, from the inside.

Polish science fiction writer S. Lem, in his “Star Diaries,” described the story of space vagabonds who ruined their planet, dug up all the subsoil with mines, and sold minerals to the inhabitants of other galaxies. Retribution for such blindness was terrible, but fair. That fateful day came when they found themselves on the edge of a bottomless pit, and the ground began to crumble under their feet. This story is a threatening warning to all of humanity, which is rapaciously plundering nature.

Thus, the relationships between man and nature on the pages of books are diverse. When reading about others, we unwittingly try on characters and situations for ourselves. And, perhaps, we also think: how do we ourselves relate to nature? Shouldn't something be changed in this regard?

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Man and nature in domestic and world literature

“Man will destroy the world sooner than learn to live in it” (Wilhelm Schwebel)

Not what you think, nature: Not a cast, not a soulless face - She has a soul, she has freedom, She has love, she has language...

F. I. Tyutchev

Literature has always been sensitive to all changes occurring in nature and the surrounding world. Poisoned air, rivers, earth - everything is crying out for help, for protection. Our complex and contradictory times have given rise to a huge number of problems: economic, moral and others, but, according to many, the most important among them is the environmental problem. Our future and the future of our children depends on its decision.

The catastrophe of the century is the ecological state of the environment. Many areas of our country have long become unfavorable: the destroyed Aral Sea, which could not be saved, the Volga, poisoned by wastewater from industrial enterprises, Chernobyl and many others. Who is guilty? A man who exterminated, destroyed his roots, a man who forgot where he came from, a predator man who became more terrible than a beast. “Man will destroy the world sooner than learn to live in it,” wrote Wilhelm Schwebel. Is he right? Doesn't a person understand that he is chopping the branch on which he is sitting? The death of nature threatens his own death.

A number of works by such famous writers as Chingiz Aitmatov, Valentin Rasputin, Viktor Astafiev, Sergei Zalygin and others are devoted to this problem.

Chingiz Aitmatov’s novel “The Scaffold” cannot leave the reader indifferent. The author allowed himself to speak out on the most painful, topical issues of our time. This is a scream novel, a novel written in blood, this is a desperate appeal addressed to each of us. At the center of the work is the conflict between a man and a pair of wolves who have lost their cubs. The novel begins with the theme of wolves, which develops into the theme of the death of the savannah. Due to human fault, natural natural environment animal habitats. Akbar's she-wolf, after the death of her brood, meets with a man one on one, she is strong, and the man is soulless, but the she-wolf does not consider it necessary to kill him, she only takes him away from the new wolf cubs.

And in this we see the eternal law of nature: do not harm each other, live in unity. But the second litter of wolf cubs also perishes during the development of the lake, and again we see the same baseness of the human soul. No one cares about the uniqueness of the lake and its inhabitants, because profit and gain are most important for many. And again the boundless grief of the wolf mother, she has nowhere to find refuge from the flame-spewing engines. The last refuge of wolves is the mountains, but even here they do not find peace. There comes a turning point in Akbara’s consciousness: evil must be punished. A feeling of revenge settles in her sick, wounded soul, but Akbar is morally superior to man.

Saving a human child, a pure being, not yet touched by the dirt of the surrounding reality, Akbara shows generosity, forgiving people for the evil done to her. Wolves are not only opposed to humans, they are humanized, endowed with nobility, that high moral strength that people lack. Animals kinder than a person, because they take from nature only what is necessary for their existence, and man is cruel not only to nature, but also to the animal world. Without any feeling of regret, meat producers shoot defenseless saigas at point-blank range, hundreds of animals die, and a crime is committed against nature. In the novel “The Scaffold,” the she-wolf and the child die together, and their blood mixes, proving the unity of all living things, despite all existing differences.

A person armed with technology often does not think about what consequences his actions will have for society and future generations. The destruction of nature is inevitably combined with the destruction of everything human in people. Literature teaches that cruelty to animals and nature turns into a serious danger for the person himself for his physical and moral health. Nikonov’s story “On the Wolves” is about this. It talks about a huntsman, a man whose profession is called upon to protect all living things, but in reality a moral monster who causes irreparable harm to nature.

Experiencing burning pain for the dying nature, modern literature acts as her protector. Vasiliev’s story “Don’t Shoot White Swans” evoked a great public response. For forester Yegor Polushkin, the swans that he settled on Black Lake are a symbol of the pure, lofty and beautiful.

Rasputin’s story “Farewell to Matera” raises the topic of the extinction of villages. Grandma Daria, the main character, takes the news the hardest of all that the village of Matera, which has lived for three hundred years, where she was born, is living out its life. last spring. A dam is being built on the Angara, and the village will be flooded. And here Grandma Daria, who worked tirelessly, honestly and selflessly for half a century, receiving almost nothing for her work, suddenly resists, defending her old hut, her Matera, where her great-grandfather and grandfather lived, where every log is not only hers, but also hers. ancestors Her son Pavel also feels sorry for the village, who says that it doesn’t hurt to lose it only for those who “didn’t water every furrow.” Pavel understands today's truth, he understands that a dam is needed, but Grandma Daria cannot come to terms with this truth, because the graves will be flooded, and this is a memory. She is sure that “the truth is in memory; those who have no memory have no life.” Daria grieves in the cemetery at the graves of her ancestors and asks for their forgiveness. The scene of Daria's farewell in the cemetery cannot fail to touch the reader. A new village is being built, but it does not have the core of that village life, the strength that a peasant gains from childhood by communicating with nature.

Against the barbaric destruction of forests, animals and nature in general, calls are constantly heard from the pages of the press from writers who strive to awaken in readers responsibility for the future. The question of attitude to nature, to native places is also a question of attitude to the Motherland.

There are four laws of ecology, which were formulated more than twenty years ago by the American scientist Barry Commoner: “Everything is interconnected, everything must go somewhere, everything is worth something, nature knows this better than us.” These rules fully reflect the essence of the economic approach to life, but, unfortunately, they are not taken into account. But it seems to me that if all the people of the earth thought about their future, they could change the current environmentally dangerous situation in the world. Otherwise, a person will really “...destroy the world rather than learn to live in it.” All in our hands!

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Man and nature in domestic and world literature

It is impossible to imagine a person without nature.

Indeed, this connection is impossible not to notice. Great writers and poets admired and admired nature in their works. Of course, nature served as a source of inspiration for them. Many works show man's dependence on his native nature. Far from the Motherland, native nature, a person fades, and his life loses its meaning.

Also, society as a whole is connected to nature. I think thanks to her it is gradually taking shape. Despite the fact that man exists thanks to nature, he is also a threat to it. After all, under the influence of man, nature develops, or, conversely, is destroyed. V.A. Soloukhin is right that “man is a kind of disease for the planet, causing irreparable harm to it every day.” Indeed, sometimes people forget that nature is their home, and it requires careful treatment.

My point of view is confirmed in I.S. Turgenev’s novel “Fathers and Sons.” Main character Evgeny Bazarov adheres to the novel quite categorical position: “Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man is a worker in it.” It seems to me that with this attitude towards nature, Evgeny Bazarov shows his indifference to the nature in which he lives. Using everything he needs, Evgeniy forgets about the consequences this can lead to.

In V.G. Rasputin’s story “Farewell to Matera”, man’s attitude towards nature is clearly manifested. The main theme of the story is the history of the small village of Matera. For many years the village lived its calm, measured life. But one day on the Angara River, on the banks of which Matera is located, they begin to build a dam for a power plant. It becomes clear to the villagers that their village will soon be flooded.

From this story it follows that a person can control nature as he pleases. In an attempt to improve life, people build various power plants. But they don’t think about the fact that this small village stood in this place for many years and it is dear to humanity as a memory. And because of buildings, people destroy their memory and value.

It seems to me that for a long time man perceived nature as a storehouse from which one could draw endlessly. Because of this, unfortunately, things began to happen more and more often ecological disasters. An example of this is the accident at Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which occurred on April 26, 1986. The destruction was explosive, the reactor was completely destroyed, and environment was thrown away a large number of radioactive substances.

Thus, we can say that the human impact on nature in most cases is deplorable. But fortunately, modern society began to realize the importance of caring for nature. Environmental problems that arise under human influence on nature, and which writers so want to convey in their works, force people to think about the well-being of nature. After all, nature is a home for every inhabitant of the planet and, I am sure, for literature it is main value, which the great masters of words call upon to preserve. 426 words

Nature: trees, flowers, river, mountains, birds. This is everything that surrounds a person every day. Familiar and even boring... What is there to admire? What to be excited about? This is what a person thinks, who from childhood was not taught to notice the beauty of a drop of dew on the petals of a rose, to admire the beauty of a newly blossoming white-trunked birch tree, or to listen to the conversation of the waves rolling onto the shore on a quiet evening. And who should teach? Probably a father or mother, a grandmother or grandfather, someone who himself has always “been captivated by this beauty.”

The writer V. Krupin has a wonderful story with the intriguing title “Drop the Bag.” It’s about how a father taught his daughter, “blind” to the beauty of nature, to notice the beautiful. One day after the rain, when they were loading a barge with potatoes, my father suddenly said: “Varya, look how beautiful it is.” And my daughter has a heavy bag on her shoulders: how do you look? The father's phrase in the title of the story seems to me to be a kind of metaphor. After Varya throws off the “bag of blindness,” a beautiful picture of the sky after the rain will open before her. A huge rainbow, and above it, as if under an arc, the sun! My father also found figurative words to describe this picture, comparing the sun to a horse harnessed to a rainbow! At that moment, the girl, having recognized beauty, “as if she had washed herself,” she “began to breathe easier.” From then on, Varya began to notice the beauty in nature and taught her children and grandchildren, just as she had once adopted this skill from her father.

And the hero of V. Shukshin’s story “The Old Man, the Sun and the Girl,” an old village grandfather, teaches a young urban artist to notice the beauty in nature. It is thanks to the old man that she notices that the sun that evening was unusually large, and river water in its setting rays it looked like blood. The mountains are also magnificent! In the rays of the setting sun they seemed to move closer to people. The old man and the girl admire how between the river and the mountains “the dusk was quietly fading,” and a soft shadow was approaching from the mountains. What a surprise the artist will be when she learns that a blind man was discovering beauty before her! How one must love one’s native land, how often one must come to this shore so that, having already gone blind, one can see all this! And not just to see, but to reveal this beauty to people...

We can conclude that we are taught to notice the beauty in nature by people endowed with a special flair and a special love for their native land. They themselves will notice and tell us that we only have to look closely at any plant, even at the simplest stone, and you will understand how majestic and wise the world how unique, diverse and beautiful it is.

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"The relationship between man and nature"

What role does nature play in human life? People have been thinking about this for centuries. This problem became especially relevant in the 20th century.Icentury, which resulted in global environmental problems. But I think that humanity would not have even survived to this day if writers and poets had not constantly reminded us that man and nature cannot exist separately, if they had not taught us to love nature.Nature is big and interesting world which surrounds us.

The story "Don't Shoot White Swans" is amazing book about the beauty of the human soul, about the ability to feel the beauty of nature, understand it, give all the best that is in man, mother nature, without demanding anything in return, only admiring and rejoicing in the wonderful appearance of nature. This work depicts different people: thrifty owners of nature, and those who treat it consumptively, committing terrible acts: burning an anthill, exterminating swans. This is the “gratitude” of tourists for their vacation and enjoyment of beauty. Fortunately, there are people like Yegor Polushkin, who strove to preserve and preserve the natural world and taught his son Kolka this. He seemed strange to people, those around him did not understand him, they often scolded him, and even beat him from his fellow covens for Yegor’s excessive, in their opinion, honesty and decency. But he was not offended by anyone and responded to all occasions in life with a good-natured remark: “It must be so, since it is not that way.” But we become scared, because people like the Buryanovs are not uncommon in our lives. Striving for profit and enrichment, Fyodor becomes hardened in soul, becomes indifferent to work, nature, and people. ANDB. Vasiliev warns: indifferent people are dangerous, they are cruel. Destroying nature, forests, destroying tons of fish, killing the most beautiful swan birds, Buryanov is not far from raising his hand against a person. Which is what he did at the end of the story. There was no place in Buryanov’s soul for goodness, love for people, for nature. Spiritual and emotional underdevelopment is one of the reasons for the barbaric attitude towards nature. A person who destroys nature first of all destroys himself and cripples the lives of his loved ones.

Thus, in Russian literature, nature and man are closely interconnected. Writers show that they are part of one whole, live by the same laws, and mutually influence each other. The narcissistic delusions of a person who imagines himself to be the master of nature lead to a real tragedy - the death of all living things and people, first of all. And only attention, care and respect for the laws of nature and the Universe can lead to the harmonious existence of man on this Earth.

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Sections: Literature

Educational goal: Find out how the relationship between man and nature is reflected in works of literature, what problems poets and writers raise when exploring this topic (slide 2).

Educational goal: To prove to students how relevant the environmental problem is. Instill in students a sense of respect for nature.

Decor:

1. Lesson presentation (Annex 1) ;

2. Book exhibition;

3. Stand “Nature through the eyes of children”;

4. Paintings by landscape artists.

During the classes

Epigraphs (slide 3) :

“Loving nature means loving the Motherland”

(M. Prishvin)

“When a man shoots at nature, he hits himself”

(Ch. Aitmatov)

“Not what you think, nature:
Not a cast, not a soulless face -
She has a soul, she has freedom,
It has love, it has language.”

(F. Tyutchev)

Teacher's word with elements of conversation:

Today we will talk not just about nature, its beauty, its usefulness, but about the relationship between man and nature. Many writers and poets praise the beauty of nature.

K. Urmanov “Secrets in nature”

This is a Siberian writer who for 70 years never tired of looking at the enchanting pictures of the Siberian region.

When you read Urmanov’s book, how many wonderful pictures will open to your eyes - from the “birch tree in diamonds”, which filled the gray-haired nature-lover with “youthful delight”, to the scarlet dawn over a quiet lake, where in the morning water lilies open their white cups with a golden core .

And how many new friends you will find among birds - waterfowl, songbirds - inhabitants of forests and meadows, not only in Urmanov’s books, but also in the stories of M. Prishvin, V. Bianki, K. Paustovsky.

To see its beauty, its unusualness in everyday nature, you need to be able to peer into nature. Then every blade of grass, every leaf will tell you whole stories.

They write and sing about nature, and artists depict pictures of nature on canvas.

Question: Which landscape artists do you know?

(Paintings depicting landscapes are used. You must name the artist).

(slide 4 – Shishkin I.I.), (slide 5 – Levitan I.I.), (slide 6 – Polenov V.D.)

Question: What pictures would you draw while listening to the poem?

Question: Guys, read your favorite poems about the beauty of nature.

(The guys read poems by Tyutchev, Fet, Yesenin, Merezhkovsky, Pushkin, Baratynsky).

Conclusion: The conversation about the beauty of nature can be ended with the words of B. Ryabinin (slide 9):

People, look around!
How truly beautiful nature is!
She needs the care of your hands,
So that her beauty does not fade.

Question: What do the last two lines of the poem say?

Conclusion: The beauty of nature depends on man.

Question: What poems do you know where nature is destroyed by human hands?

Igor Severyanin (slide 10)

What the park whispers...
About every new fresh stump,
About a branch broken aimlessly
My soul is mortally sad.
And it hurts me so tragically.
The park is thinning, the wilderness is thinning,
The spruce bushes are thinning...
It was once thicker than the forest,
And in the mirrors of autumn puddles
It reflected like a giant...
But they came on two legs
Animals – and through the valleys
The ax carried its echoing swing.
I hear how, listening to the buzz
Murderous axe,
Park whispers, “Soon I won’t...
But I lived - it was time...”
(1923)

This poem is analyzed by a group of guys:

1. This poem was written at the beginning of the 20th century, in 1923. Already at that time, the topic of man and nature was very important. One can feel the poet’s own anxiety and pain for what is happening in people’s relationship to the nature around them.

The main idea of ​​the poem is that man, with his own hands, destroys a park, a beautiful corner of nature. And it is worth thinking to everyone living on Earth that by destroying nature, we are destroying our lives, since we are part of nature.

2. Analyzing this poem, I took two levels - graphic and phonetic. The poem consists of 4 stanzas. Written in two-syllable meter - iambic. It is this size that shows that there is no melody here. The lines sound sharp and abrupt, like the sound of an ax.

I analyzed the sound coloring of the poem. A lot of white gives sound [ABOUT]. Apparently, there are a lot of white-trunked birches in the park, a lot of green color - sound [AND]. There's even

Red color - [A] After all, the park brings joy to people with its beauty. Then all the light colors are replaced by dark ones: gray, brown, even black. This is the color of bare earth and cut down trees.

There is alliteration here - a combination of hissing and whistling consonants. The poet shows with this artistic device how the park becomes quiet, dying, that is, dying.

3. I analyzed the lexical level.

1. In the first stanza, the lyrical hero talks about his state of mind when he looks at the stumps, at the broken branches:

• I'm sad to death....
• Tragic - it hurts me...

1. In the second stanza, a picture emerges of how a once dense and beautiful park is being destroyed. This idea is conveyed by the verb “thinning”; it is repeated three times.
2. It is in the third stanza that the poet pronounces a merciless sentence on man, calling him an animal on two legs. This is a metaphor. With an ax in their hands, these “animals” are destroying the park.
3. In the fourth stanza, with the help of personification, the poet shows the last minutes of the park’s life. He hears the last whisper of the trees: “Soon I will not...”.

There are few epithets in the poem, but there is one “epithet” - a murderous ax, which emphasizes the main idea - man kills nature.

Teacher's word:

Not only poets are concerned about the violation of the harmony of relations between man and nature, but writers also very often turn to this problem.

Question: What stories have you read? How do they reveal this problem?

Prishvin “Blue bast shoe”, “Forest owner”, “Pantry of the sun”.

Paustovsky “Hare's feet", "Meshcherskaya side".

Astafiev “Why did I kill the corncrake”, “Belogrudka”.

Yakubovsky “In the forest lodge.”

A group of guys were preparing an analysis of the story "Tail" V. Astafieva.

1. We chose the story “Tail” by Viktor Astafiev. Astafiev is our contemporary writer. He recently died, but left behind wonderful works. Astafiev is very close to nature, as he grew up on the banks of the Angara, in a village surrounded by nature. He was raised by his grandmother. It was she who taught him to live in such a way “to hear everyone’s pain.” Everyone is not only a person, but also every living thing on Earth: an animal, a bird, a tree, a wild flower, every blade of grass and insect. Astafiev has a book called “Zatesi.” Zatesi are notches in a tree that taiga hunters make to find way back, don't get lost. This book contains short stories (they are called poetic miniatures). Each of the stories also leaves a notch, only not on the tree, but in the soul, the heart of the reader, makes one think about moral problems: about cruelty and kindness, about duty, honor, betrayal, about a person’s responsibility to his land.
2. In the second story, the writer raises the problem of raising children based on their relationship to nature, to all living things.

There is a boy on the shore. He laughs, bursts into laughter, bursts into laughter. What is he laughing at?

And here is a picture of the boy laughing at:

Yes, the gopher's tail is funny, it looks like a rye ear from which the grain has been knocked out. Apparently, the gopher came to the shore out of hunger to pick up crumbs. He was caught merry revelers who were resting here and put it in a jar. You can see from the scratches on the walls of the jar that they put it in alive. And the words on the newspaper are underlined not with a pencil, but with the animal’s blood. What marks did the writer leave with this story? Many questions arise after this story. Why did people do this? Why does the boy laugh and not feel sorry? What will he be like when he grows up? So Astafiev, with his ideas, makes both children and adults think: Who are we? Why us? Why do we do this?

Question: Why do nature and man not exist separately? Prove it.

• Nature feeds, clothes, gives water, and puts on shoes. It educates a person’s aesthetic and moral concepts and teaches him.

Question: Why has the environmental problem become so urgent now?

Prove it with facts (articles from newspapers, magazines, TV shows, radio shows).

• Water pollution.

Examples: Irtysh, Lake Ladoga, Baikal, Aral Sea, small rivers.

• Forest areas.

Fires, unscheduled logging.

• Destruction of rare animals, chemical pollination of fields.

Conclusion: You see that nature asks for mercy and protection from humans.

Question: What poems do you know that show an environmental problem?

Alena Kolokolnikova (Cherlak poetess) (slide 11)

Don't destroy birds' nests
Don't kill little birds
For the song thrush to return,
In the spring the song did not stop.
You are the ruler, O man!
May your gun misfire
Let no blood spill on the snow,
Let the river overflow its banks.
Nature asks: “Have mercy!”
Cruelty is fraught with future
Think about what's ahead?
You cannot avoid retribution.
She knows how to forgive everything
He wipes away a tear with the hand of an aspen tree.
Don't make her suffer
She's a mother...
So be her son.

This poem can be called the cry of the soul of a person who is not indifferent to what is happening in the world around him. The main idea here is that nature cannot be destroyed. Alena Kolokolnikova not only asks, but demands:

“don’t ruin... don’t kill... have mercy...”

The last lines are filled with love and tenderness for nature, as for a mother. A mother takes care of her children, and children should also take care of their mother. “She’s a mother!” So be her son.” S. Alekseev(slide 10)

Spare the animals and birds,
Trees and bushes.
After all, these are all words,
That you are the king of nature.
You only part of it,
Dependent part.
Without her, what is your power?
And power?!

In this poem, the main idea is that nature must be protected, all living things must be spared. And man is not at all the king of nature, but only a part of nature. A person is completely dependent on the world around him. Nature gives us food, water, and air. This is something we humans cannot live without.

Teacher's word:

A man, armed with a gun and a car, with a deaf and cruel heart, for the sake of profit, can kill an elk, the hunting of which is prohibited, shoot a duck, after which there will be a brood of helpless ducklings doomed to death without a mother.

Maybe, going on a hiking trip, he may commit outrages in nature, leaving an irreparably destructive mark on rest stops.

Or, armed with technology, break and distort with a winch a lonely tree, towering regally above the surrounding area.

Conclusion: But man is the “God” of nature, as the hero of Alexander Ivanov’s story “The Judge” claims. He needs to live in it. It’s up to him to protect her.

The same idea can be expressed in poetry (slide 11):

Giant people giant people,
Do you have rifles, nets and traps,
You have fearlessness, you have strength forever,
But there must be a heart, a human heart.

The theme of man and nature raises moral issues: kindness and cruelty, raising a child in a family, responsibility and duty to what surrounds us.

Conclusion: To hear everyone’s pain, you need to live by the rule of four “SBs”:

• Regret,
• Sympathize
• Compassionate,
• Empathize.

And then there will be less evil on Earth, and more joy.

On last stage lesson we turn to the epigraphs on the board (slide 12).

Children explain the meaning of the words of M. Prishvin, Ch. Aitmatov and F. Tyutchev

The result of the lesson is the question: What did the literature lesson make me think about?

Students answer it in writing.

Interesting stories about forest animals, stories about birds, stories about the seasons. Fascinating forest stories for children of middle school age.

Mikhail Prishvin

FOREST DOCTOR

We wandered in the forest in the spring and observed the life of hollow birds: woodpeckers, owls. Suddenly, in the direction where we had previously planned interesting tree, we heard the sound of a saw. It was, as we were told, the collection of firewood from dead wood for a glass factory. We were afraid for our tree, we hurried towards the sound of the saw, but it was too late: our aspen lay, and there were many empty trees around its stump. fir cones. The woodpecker peeled all this off over the long winter, collected it, carried it to this aspen tree, laid it between two branches of his workshop and hammered it. Near the stump, on our cut aspen, two boys were doing nothing but cutting down the wood.

- Oh, you pranksters! - we said and pointed them to the cut aspen. “You were told to remove dead trees, but what did you do?”

“The woodpecker made a hole,” the guys answered. “We took a look and, of course, we cut it down.” It will still be lost.

Everyone began to examine the tree together. It was completely fresh, and only in a small space, no more than a meter in length, did a worm pass inside the trunk. The woodpecker obviously listened to the aspen like a doctor: he tapped it with his beak, realized the emptiness left by the worm, and began the operation of extracting the worm. And the second time, and the third, and the fourth... The thin trunk of the aspen looked like a pipe with valves. The “surgeon” made seven holes and only on the eighth he caught the worm, pulled out and saved the aspen.

We cut this piece out as a wonderful exhibit for a museum.

“You see,” we told the guys, “the woodpecker is a forest doctor, he saved the aspen, and it would live and live, and you cut it down.”

The boys were amazed.

Mikhail Prishvin.

SQUIRREL MEMORY

Today, looking at the tracks of animals and birds in the snow, this is what I read from these tracks: a squirrel made its way through the snow into the moss, took out two nuts hidden there since the fall, ate them right away - I found the shells. Then she ran ten meters away, dived again, again left a shell on the snow and after a few meters made a third climb.

What kind of miracle? It’s impossible to think that she could smell the nut through a thick layer of snow and ice. This means that since the fall I remembered about my nuts and the exact distance between them.

But the most amazing thing is that she could not measure centimeters like we did, but directly by eye she determined with precision, dived and reached. Well, how could one not envy the squirrel’s memory and ingenuity!

Georgy Skrebitsky

FOREST VOICE

Sunny day at the very beginning of summer. I am wandering not far from home, in a birch forest. Everything around seems to be bathing, splashing in golden waves of warmth and light. Birch branches flow above me. The leaves on them seem either emerald green or completely golden. And below, under the birches, light bluish shadows also run and flow across the grass, like waves. And the light bunnies, like reflections of the sun in the water, run one after another along the grass, along the path.

The sun is both in the sky and on the ground... And this makes it feel so good, so fun that you want to run away somewhere into the distance, to where the trunks of young birch trees sparkle with their dazzling whiteness.

And suddenly from this sunny distance I heard a familiar forest voice: “Kuk-ku, kuk-ku!”

Cuckoo! I've heard it many times before, but I've never even seen it in a picture. What is she like? For some reason she seemed plump and big-headed to me, like an owl. But maybe she's not like that at all? I'll run and have a look.

Alas, it turned out to be far from easy. I listen to her voice. And she will fall silent, and then again: “Kuk-ku, kuk-ku,” but in a completely different place.

How can you see her? I stopped in thought. Or maybe she's playing hide and seek with me? She's hiding, and I'm looking. Let's play it the other way around: now I'll hide, and you look.

I climbed into the hazel bush and also cuckooed once and twice. The cuckoo has fallen silent, maybe it’s looking for me? I sit in silence, even my heart is pounding with excitement. And suddenly, somewhere nearby: “Kuk-ku, kuk-ku!”

I am silent: better look, don’t shout to the whole forest.

And she’s already very close: “Kuk-ku, kuk-ku!”

I look: some kind of bird is flying across the clearing, its tail is long, it is gray, only its chest is covered in dark speckles. Probably a hawk. This one in our yard hunts sparrows. He flew up to a nearby tree, sat down on a branch, bent down and shouted: “Kuk-ku, kuk-ku!”

Cuckoo! That's it! This means that she does not look like an owl, but like a hawk.

I'll crow out of the bush in response to her! Out of fright, she almost fell out of the tree, immediately darted down from the branch, scurried off somewhere into the thicket of the forest, and that was all I saw.

But I don’t need to see her anymore. So I figured it out forest riddle, and besides, for the first time he himself spoke to the bird in its native language.

So the clear forest voice of the cuckoo revealed to me the first secret of the forest. And since then, for half a century, I have been wandering in winter and summer along remote untrodden paths and discovering more and more secrets. And there is no end to these winding paths, and there is no end to the secrets of our native nature.

Konstantin Ushinsky

FOUR WISHES

Vitya sledded down an icy mountain and skated on a frozen river, ran home rosy, cheerful and said to his father:

- How fun it is in winter! I wish it were all winter!

“Write your wish in my pocket book,” said the father.

Mitya wrote it down.

Spring came. Mitya ran to his heart’s content in the green meadow for colorful butterflies, picked flowers, ran to his father and said:

- What a beauty this spring is! I wish it were still spring.

The father again took out the book and ordered Mitya to write down his wish.

Summer has come. Mitya and his father went to haymaking. The boy had fun all long day: he fished, picked berries, tumbled in the fragrant hay, and in the evening he said to his father:

- I had a lot of fun today! I wish there was no end to summer!

And this desire of Mitya was written down in the same book.

Autumn has come. Fruits were collected in the garden - ruddy apples and yellow pears. Mitya was delighted and said to his father:

— Autumn is the best time of the year!

Then the father took out his notebook and showed the boy that he had said the same thing about spring, and winter, and summer.

Vera Chaplina

WINGED ALARM CLOCK

Seryozha is happy. He moved with his mom and dad to new house. Now they have a two-room apartment. One room with a balcony, my parents lived in it, and Seryozha lived in the other.

Seryozha was upset that the room where he would live did not have a balcony.

“Nothing,” said dad. - But we will make a bird feeder, and you will feed them in winter.

“So only sparrows will fly,” Seryozha objected dissatisfied. - The guys say they are harmful, and they shoot them with slingshots.

- Don’t repeat nonsense! - the father got angry. — Sparrows are useful in the city. They feed their chicks with caterpillars, and hatch chicks two or three times during the summer. So consider how much benefit they have. Anyone who shoots birds with slingshots will never be a real hunter.

Seryozha remained silent. He didn't want to say that he, too, had shot birds with a slingshot. And he really wanted to be a hunter, and definitely like his dad. Just shoot accurately and learn everything from the tracks.

Dad kept his promise, and on the first day off they got to work. Seryozha provided nails and planks, and dad planed and hammered them together.

When the work was finished, dad took the feeder and nailed it right under the window. He did this on purpose so that in winter he could pour food through the window for the birds. Mom praised their work, but there’s nothing to say about Seryozha: now he himself liked his father’s idea.

- Dad, will we start feeding the birds soon? - he asked when everything was ready. - After all, winter has not yet come.

- Why wait for winter? - Dad answered. - Now let's begin. You think that when you pour out the food, all the sparrows will flock to peck it! No, brother, you need to train them first. Even though a sparrow lives near a person, it is a cautious bird.

And it’s true, as dad said, so it happened. Every morning Seryozha poured various crumbs and grains into the feeders, but the sparrows did not even fly close to her. They sat down at a distance, on a large poplar tree, and sat on it.

Seryozha was very upset. He really thought that as soon as the food was poured out, the sparrows would immediately fly to the window.

“Nothing,” dad consoled him. “They’ll see that no one is offending them, and they’ll stop being afraid.” Just don't hang around the window.

Seryozha followed all his father’s advice exactly. And soon I began to notice that every day the birds became bolder and bolder. Now they were already landing on the nearby branches of the poplar, then they became completely brave and began to fly to the table.

And how carefully they did it! They will fly by once or twice, see that there is no danger, grab a piece of bread and quickly fly off with it to a secluded place. They peck there slowly so that no one can take it away, and then fly back to the feeder.

While it was autumn, Seryozha fed the sparrows with bread, but when winter came, he began to give them more grain. Because the bread froze quickly, the sparrows did not have time to peck it and remained hungry.

Seryozha felt very sorry for the sparrows, especially when they started very coldy. The poor creatures sat disheveled, motionless, with their frozen paws tucked under them, and patiently awaited a treat.

But how happy they were about Seryozha! As soon as he approached the window, they, chirping loudly, flew in from all directions and hurried to have breakfast as soon as possible. On frosty days, Seryozha fed his feathered friends several times. After all, a well-fed bird can tolerate cold more easily.

At first, only sparrows flew to Seryozha’s feeding trough, but one day he noticed a titmouse among them. Apparently, the winter cold also drove her here. And when the titmouse saw that there was money to be made here, it began to fly every day.

Seryozha was glad that the new guest visited his dining room so willingly. He read somewhere that tits love lard. He took out a piece, and so that the sparrows would not drag it away, he hung it on a thread, as dad taught.

The titmouse instantly realized that this treat was reserved for her. She immediately grabbed onto the fat with her paws, pecked, and she seemed to be swinging on a swing. She pecked for a long time. It’s immediately obvious that she liked this delicacy.

Seryozha always fed his birds in the morning and always at the same time. As soon as the alarm clock rang, he got up and poured food into the feeder.

The sparrows were already waiting for this time, but the titmouse was especially waiting. She appeared from nowhere and boldly landed on the table. In addition, the bird turned out to be very savvy. She was the first to figure out that if Seryozha’s window knocked in the morning, she had to hurry to breakfast. Moreover, she was never mistaken and, if the neighbor’s window knocked, she did not fly in.

But this was not the only thing that distinguished the shrewd bird. One day it happened that the alarm clock went bad. No one knew that he had deteriorated. Even my mother didn't know. She could have overslept and been late for work if not for the tit.

The bird flew in to have breakfast and saw that no one was opening the window, no one was pouring food out. She jumped with the sparrows on the empty table, jumped and began knocking on the glass with her beak: “Let’s eat quickly!” Yes, she knocked so hard that Seryozha woke up. I woke up and couldn’t understand why the titmouse was knocking on the window. Then I thought - she was probably hungry and asking for food.

Got up. He poured food for the birds, looked, and on the wall clock the hands already showed almost nine. Then Seryozha woke up mom and dad and quickly ran to school.

From then on, the titmouse got into the habit of knocking on his window every morning. And she knocked at exactly eight o'clock. It’s like she guessed the time by the clock!

It used to be that as soon as she knocked with her beak, Seryozha would quickly jump out of bed and rush to get dressed. Of course, it will keep knocking until you give it food. Mom laughed too:

- Look, the alarm clock has arrived!

And dad said:

- Well done, son! You won't find such an alarm clock in any store. It turns out that you didn’t work for nothing.

All winter the titmouse woke up Seryozha, and when spring came, she flew into the forest. After all, there, in the forest, tits build nests and hatch chicks. Probably, Serezhina’s titmouse also flew off to hatch her chicks. And by the fall, when they are adults, she will return to Seryozha’s feeding trough again, and, perhaps, not alone, but with the whole family, and will again begin to wake him up in the morning for school.