To understand what counting rhymes are, you need to know their history. The roots of the counting rhyme go back to ancient times. Then there were no washing machines, combines, modern threshers and so on. The work was hard. Everything was done by hand and primitive tools. Moreover, some of the work was even dangerous to he alth and life. But the work needed to be done. Who will do it? Volunteers are not to be found. Therefore, they began to come up with a way to distribute work fairly, without offending others. Wonderful oral folk art - counting rhymes found their birth here, and application in real life. They can be safely called not an individual genre of Russian literature, but applied, for the fulfillment of a practical clear goal - the distribution of work.
Illiterate people, unable to explain the phenomena of nature and its laws, interpreted everything in their own way. They tried to save themselves from misfortunes and misfortunes. Fear of the unknown gave rise to secret and incomprehensible words in counting rhymes. People came to the idea that nature did both good and evil to people. Animals were thought to be able to understand human speech. Belief in the power of words has transformed the rhyme into a real spell.
Time passed, the laws of nature became clear, tools improved, and the rhyme acquired a harmless, even cheerful character. Children love them and use them before games or just say them because they liked the counting rhymes.
Meaning of counters
A rhyming verse is a rhyming verse, made up of fictitious consonances and words, while the exact rhythm is highlighted, which they try to adhere to.
With the help of rhymes, roles for a variety of games are fairly and clearly distributed among children. It is also used to queue for the start of a new exciting fun. This is how you enter a new game.
Functions of counters
The counting table is a way to build irreplaceable, good human sides - justice, camaraderie, honesty.
Some people are of the opinion that oral folk art - counting rhymes, absolutely no one needs, as something superfluous in the bright head of a baby. I would like to dispute this fact. What are the benefits of counting rhymes?
Distribution of roles
Group games cannot do without a rhyme. For example, hide and seek. Who will hide, and who will search, will be determined by the counting rhyme. So that there are no questions of this nature, “Why am I looking, and not him?”. The rhyme helps to assign roles in the game without offense. Surrendering to the will of chance, the driver is chosen not by appearance, clothes or friendship, but honestly. It is unlikely that anyone will have a desire to object to the lot that has been drawn. For a while weak maybebecome a leader, feel strong, and vice versa. If a child knows a lot of counting rhymes, he most likely becomes an entertainer of different games. These guys are very popular, their fellow tribesmen are drawn to them.
Development of rhythm, counting, speech, etc
For the formation of speech, counting rhymes are just a godsend. With frequent pronunciation of these, the child's speech becomes cleaner, articulation improves. Some counting rhymes use words that are not easy to pronounce. Their complete absence in other languages is noted.
Folk rhymes for children are used not only in group games, but also when an adult and a child are scheduled to play. For example:
Clouds, clouds, clouds, clouds, A big, mighty horse gallops.
He rides through the clouds, Who doesn't believe - get out!
The development of rhythm is the beautiful side of one of the facets of the rhyme. You can jump under it when more often, and when less often, depending on the pauses. It all depends on the content of the rhyme. There is nothing to do without a sense of rhythm in dance and music.
The ability to count is not a bad ability. Before the game, listening to the counting rhyme with the score, the child remembers it, and if the words are liked, with frequent repetition, the score, at least up to ten, will be learned without your special diligence. The kids are learning elementary arithmetic. Rhythmic and unpretentiously rhyming rhyme, it gives an explanation in a playful way of the basics of mathematical rules.
To learn your favorite rhyme, you need to concentrate well and try to remember what you heard. Thus, the counting rhymes wander during the game fromone child to another. If the child does not remember some words, then, to the best of his imagination and ingenuity, he will come up with, insert his words into the counting rhyme and change the ending. The conclusion suggests itself - counting rhymes develop imagination, humor, good fantasy, make it possible to compose poetry yourself. Some of them are passed down from generation to generation.
Next, let's find out what there are counting rhymes. There are several types.
- Counting-lots.
- Bizarre rhymes.
- Counting numerals.
- Replacement counting.
Counting is a good prelude to an exciting game. Kids like comrades who have a whole load of counting rhymes in their heads.
Counting Draws
This kind of counting rhymes is striking in its diversity and colorfulness. The draws have a good consonance. They help the children to divide into teams. Each of the participants tries to encrypt his name, chooses a pair, goes to the “wombs” (strong and dexterous team players). It is they who make the selection of members of their team, based on some kind of proposal. A choice is made among animals or objects, plants or fairy-tale characters.
A black horse or a remote Cossack?
A fox in flowers or a bear in pants?
Uncle Fedya or a polar bear?
The name of the rhymes-drawing lots develops a poetic ear and disposes to compose a masterpiece on your own, rhyming words. You can try to make a complete nonsense, abracadabra. It is not forbidden to create something new from the usual, which indicateslevel of aesthetic development and intellectual too.
Bizarre rhymes
This type of rhyme is fully or partially consisting of zaumi. There are sound combinations here that make absolutely no sense. Toddlers with great pleasure learn the most difficult text. Moreover, this process takes place effortlessly, easily and simply. Moreover, they themselves can come up with something similar, and even better. The style can be safely attributed to children's folklore. Some say that these rhymes are fragments of spells. Others think that these are the remaining fragments of prayer texts in the language of time immemorial. Children's absurdity is attributed to a completely different speech, some kind of mysticism and mystery can be seen in it. One such example of zaumi:
Charber-farber, jarber-fook, Am dam eki-beki tuk, Byunoseki arin- uh
Ebit-debit, bitken-buf.
Moving on, the next type of counters is directly related to numbers. The benefits of such rhymes are simply colossal.
Counters-numbers
Or counting rhymes with numbers. The basis is the account. It contains counter words and equivalents of numerals. Let's analyze the next rhyme in more detail. It looks like this:
"Azi, dwazi, trizi, risi, Heel, lata, fur coat, ruby, Dubi, cross"
Sounds like nonsense, but the people of bygone days didn't think so. It contains a small secret.
History of number counts
The oldest counting rhymes includeancient beliefs. There was an opinion that it was impossible to give aloud to the account: guests, objects. It was forbidden to count prey or catch, so that the spirits of the forest or reservoir would not become indignant at the hunter. But how to be? It was then that they came up with coded words: “Odintsy” - one, “Dvazi” - two. At the end of the cross for a reason - it's ten. Many centuries ago, each ten was marked with notches on a separate small board. There is also the saying, "Kill yourself on the nose." Its roots go right here. It can be stated that they are an ancient cipher that has reached us. Thank you, perhaps, let's say children's games. Let's move on to the next view.
Replacement counts
They do not contain any mysterious abstruse or counting words. They differ in that when the last line sounds, the player must leave the circle. Example:
Ivan, give me a glass, cut a lemon, and get out.
A certain style, a poetic text, affects children contagiously and incites. An important event is underway - the preparation and organization of the game.
Conclusions
Time passes, children grow up, but they remember their favorite poems well and exchange them in kindergartens and schools. Growing up, the child knows more counting rhymes, they become more complicated and longer. At breaks, you can hear a whole bunch of counting rhymes of various types. School counting rhymes broaden your horizons much more. The child learns a lot of curious and new information. There is an accumulation of material for adult life. For example, getting to know different kinds of animals:
You are a hamster.
Ayou are a ferret.
You are a bunny, jump and jump.
You are a fox.
You are a marten.
You are a skilled beaver.
You are a hunter…
Oh, trouble!Run away!
Combining everything into a short list, the benefits of counting rhymes should be noted.
- Teaching children the rules of the game and teaching them to stick to them. The driver of the game is chosen fairly in front of everyone, without any privileges.
- Memory improves and sense of rhythm improves.
- I would especially like to note the organization and discipline of children with the help of a counting rhyme. The child is much more willing to get involved in the next game.
Counting is not only a children's activity! An adult would also do well to know a few rhymes or, alternatively, compose them. This is a great help for the child to show curiosity. Situations are taken from ordinary life: "I look like three insects are trampling bows on Mashka." With the help of such undertakings, new facets and opportunities are developed.
Children's imagination has no limits, everyone can try to look at the world through the eyes of a child, the main thing is to want. Then the world will shine with bright colors.
