Stories about winter for middle school children. Preschool child - child development, preparation for school in Kyiv

Winter has come - a magical time of year. All the paths were covered with a white fluffy carpet. It sparkles in the sun and is pleasing to the eye.

The winter forest is quiet and incredibly beautiful. The birds don't sing anymore. Bears and hedgehogs fell asleep before winter began.

Mini-essay about winter No. 2: “Winter has come”

Real winter has come. It's freezing. The entire surrounding area is covered with a snow carpet. The river and pond are tightly frozen. As if in a fairy tale, the trees shine with silver.

We took the sled and went for a walk in the yard. There, the neighborhood kids were making a snow woman. We all started playing snowballs together. The guys suggested sledding down a slippery snowy hill. We had a lot of fun!

Then our hands froze and we ran home. It's cold in winter!

In the evening a strong blizzard began. The trees swayed and crackled. It's scary to show your nose on the street. It's good that we're home. We are warm and not afraid of any frost!

Essay about winter No. 3: “It’s good in winter”

Winter has come. It is severely frosty and a cold wind is blowing. A snowstorm came and covered all the paths. The fields and hills were covered with a fluffy white carpet. Low trees and bushes were covered with snow.

And what fancy patterns the frost decorated the windows of the houses with! It’s not for nothing that they came up with a riddle about him: he has no arms, no legs, but he can draw.

The children missed going for walks. They can't wait for the snowstorm to end. They beg their parents to let them go for a walk in the yard.

But the snowstorm died down. Making their way through the high snowdrifts, the children joyfully run into the street. While playing snowballs, they throw lumps of snow at each other. They dodge the hits and fall. They're laughing! Cheeks glow like pouring apples, eyelashes and eyebrows in frost.

After lunch, the children took their skis and skates and ran to the pond. The water is frozen into a thick layer of ice, which means you can skate. Kids race on sleds along a smooth snow-covered hill. Teenagers skiing. Everyone has fun!

Good in winter! It's beautiful all around. Thank you, frost, for bringing snow.

Winter Story No. 4: “Winter Fun”

Winter came. The weather is frosty. It's cold outside. The trees stand covered with snow fringes.

But children always have fun, especially when there is a lot of snow. You can fall and roll in the snow without fear of getting dirty. You just need to dress warmly so as not to freeze.

I put on a ski tracksuit, a jacket, and put on boots. He pulled a fur hat over his head and tied a woolen scarf around his neck. I put on warm mittens. I took a new sled and ran up the hill to ride.

Many children from our yard gathered on the street. We ran up a smooth snow-covered hill, next to which there was a slippery skating rink. There we sledded and skated for a long time. The kids played snowballs.

Then everyone made a snowman together. The snow was loose, almost wet, so it wasn't difficult. The kids were very glad that they also participated in this activity.

As expected, we rolled three snowballs and placed them on top of each other. When the snowman was almost ready, I brought an old bucket from home to put on his head. A neighbor boy brought out a carrot and stuck it in place of his nose. The snowman's eyes became two coals, and his smiling mouth became a small flexible twig.

The snowman turned out wonderful! No worse than in cartoons or pictures. The guys and I took a photo next to it as a souvenir.

In the evening it started snowing again. We watched in fascination as fluffy snowflakes swirled in the air. How beautiful are these fragile creations of nature! It turns out that all snowflakes are different, not similar to each other. But this is noticeable only upon careful examination.

It was already dark when I returned home. A little tired, cold and hungry, but very happy.

The day was a great success. Good winter fun!

Essay about winter No. 5: “Description of winter”

Winter is an amazing time of year. Covered with a white blanket, nature, as if in a fairy tale, plunged into a long, deep sleep. The winter sorceress enchanted and bewitched the forest. All the trees stretch bare crystal branches to the blue sky. Only the spruces and pines are green, but the oak has not shed its summer attire. Its foliage only turned yellow and darkened. The lower branches of the oak tree spread out like a tent over the clearing. Snow packed into the deep wrinkles of the bark. The thick trunk seems to be stitched with silver threads. From a distance it seems that this is a brave hero in bronze chain mail, the all-powerful guardian of the forest. The other trees respectfully parted to allow the elder brother to unfold in mighty power. The winter wind will blow, the huge and majestic oak tree will ring with bronze foliage, but will not bow even before a strong storm.

In winter, familiar landscapes are colored in new ways by snow. At dusk it is blue, under the silvery rays of the moon it glows with a mysterious brilliance and plays with multi-colored sparkles. At dawn the snow turns pink from the scarlet dawn. And even the usual forest colors look different next to the changeable snowy whiteness.

Winter can be different. You just have to take a closer look. It is both cold and thawing, blizzard and dripping, snowy and sunny. A winter day can be either quiet, frosty and sunny, or gloomy and foggy, or with a howling cold wind and a snowstorm. And how beautiful a winter morning is, early, silent, with frost, sun and sparkling snow. And the evening is so long, thoughtful. Nature seems to be waiting for a fairy tale to appear.

Essay about winter No. 6: “Winter morning”

So, it has come - the long-awaited winter! It's good to run through the frost on the first winter morning! The streets, yesterday still gloomy like autumn, are completely covered with burning snow, and the sun shimmers in it with a blinding brilliance. A bizarre pattern of frost lay on shop windows and tightly closed house windows, frost covered the branches of poplars. If you look along the street, which stretches out like a smooth ribbon, or if you look close, you look around - everything is the same everywhere: snow, snow, snow...

Occasionally a rising breeze pricks your face and ears, but how beautiful everything is around! How tender and soft they swirl smoothly in the air! No matter how prickly the frost is, it is also pleasant. Isn’t that why we all love winter, because it, just like spring, fills our chests with an exciting feeling.

Everything is alive, everything is bright in the transformed nature, everything is full of invigorating freshness. It’s so easy to breathe and so good at heart that you involuntarily smile, and you want to say in a friendly way to this wonderful winter morning: “Hello, long-awaited, cheerful winter!”

Winter reading. 25 best children's books about winter.

Winter is the most magical time of the year. And the most bookish. Time to turn on the lamp under a warm lampshade, wrap yourself in something warm, put a cup of hot tea on a stool next to you and plunge into the world of winter fairy tales - mysterious, frosty, a little lonely, but with an invariably good ending.

“The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

“Who knows, dear godfather, who knows, you would be as beautiful as my dear Nutcracker, even if you dressed up no worse than him and put on the same smart, shiny boots.”

A funny toothy man and an army of animated toys enter into battle with the scary leader of the mouse army. Little Marie is ready to sacrifice anything to save her pet. She doesn’t even feel sorry for beautiful marzipan dolls! Even if you read it for the hundredth time, your heart still skips a beat.

“Magic Winter”, Tove Janson

"Winter! After all, you can love her too!”

All self-respecting Moomins hibernate in winter, filling their bellies with pine needles. But little Moomintroll spun and spun, and then woke up. Of course, the baby felt terribly lonely in a cold house full of mysterious creatures. But to overcome loneliness, you just need to extend your paw to your neighbor!

“Twelve months”, Samuel Marshak

“I’d rather write “execute” - it’s shorter.”

Actually, this is a retelling of a Croatian fairy tale. But for us he became family a long time ago. For the sake of the good Stepdaughter, even spring does not come according to schedule. And the capricious Queen and the mischievous Stepmother and Daughter just have to learn the rules of communication and generally be kinder.

“The Snow Queen”, Hans Christian Andersen

“Kai is dead and will never come back!” - said Gerda. "I do not believe!" - answered the sunlight.”

“...The windows were often completely frozen, but the kids heated copper coins on the stove and applied them to the frozen glass - the ice quickly thawed, and it turned out a wonderful window, so round, round - it showed a cheerful, affectionate peephole, it was a boy and a girl looking out your windows. His name was Kai, and hers was Gerda.” An eternal piece about living human love defeating “eternity” of evil ice.

“Winter Tales”, Sergei Kozlov

“"Teddy bear, if everything is bad, bad, bad, then it should be good later, right?" “Then yes,” said the Bear.”

“Winter's Tale”, “Piglet in a Prickly Fur Coat”, “How the Donkey, the Hedgehog and the Bear Cub Celebrated the New Year”... The wizard Sergei Kozlov has collected a whole collection of seasonal tales about the Hedgehog, the Bear Cub and other forest company. Philosophical stories are subtle and gentle. You read it as if you are drinking aromatic tea and your soul melts with every line. Any age!

“Yolka”, Vladimir Suteev

“And in the morning the Snowman stood in the same place, only in his hands instead of a letter there was a Christmas tree.”

The postal snowman heroically makes his way to Santa Claus with a letter from the guys. All they need for a full New Year is a Christmas tree. From the dense forest, the fluffiest, most beautiful. It is simply and sincerely written, talentedly drawn, and as a result has not become outdated for half a century.

"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" by Clive Staples Lewis

“And what else can spoil the taste of good simple food, if not the memory of a magical delicacy?”

The first book in the “Chronicles of Narnia” series is a classic fantasy with all the necessary attributes. There are insidious witches and talking animals, and magical weapons. And, of course, there would not have been an epoch-making battle between good and evil here either. Guess who won?

“Christmas at Pettson's House”, Sven Nordqvist

“Strange things happen to the dough all the time,” the kitten explained. “Sometimes it suddenly disappears.”

The eccentric old man Petson and the mischievous kitten Findus (and with them the tiny mysterious mukles) may be left without their favorite holiday. But in the end, everything will work out great for them, because the main thing in Christmas is not formalities at all, but human warmth and friendly support.

“Silver Hoof”, Pavel Bazhov

“If you don’t take such a loud cat, you’ll end up a fool. Instead of a balalaika, we will have it in our hut.”

A sincere company was formed: the grandfather-hunter Kokovanya, the orphan Darena and the cat Muryonka with the saying “You're right. R-right.” In such a group, it’s not scary in a snowy forest, and you can easily track down the magic goat. Well, you know, the one who stomps his foot and knocks out expensive stones. It’s somehow unoriginal to use the word “delicious” about the text, but in Bazhov, every word really melts on the tongue!

Paddington Bear and Christmas by Michael Bond

“Paddington remained silent. The stall was more like a dog kennel, and there was only one deer in it, and it was plastic.”

The friendly Brown family once found this furry cutie at a London train station. Everyone's favorite Paddington takes everything extremely seriously. Before Christmas, he saved up for gifts for a long time - and now he is planning a meeting with Santa Claus. Fortunately, Grandfather is not yet aware of what is starting to happen where this bear appears.

“Magic Punch”, Michael Ende

“No, I just can’t believe my ears! A cat cannot be such a simpleton - perhaps two or three cats in total.”

The author of “The Neverending Story” knows how to take the reader on an adventure! So, on the last evening of the passing year, two of the most evil creatures in the world meet at the Nightmare villa. One of them shamefully underfulfilled the plan for evil deeds. A witch's drink of terrible power is about to be brewed, and then... We won't tell you any more, read for yourself!

“Winter in Prostokvashino”, Eduard Uspensky

“Oh,” says dad, “this is a mentally retarded car. It was immediately made obsolete. This car miracle is not intended for driving, but for repair.”

Everyone remembers how Sharik drew Matroskina with figs, riding academics met in the snowdrifts, and Uncle Fyodor’s mother herself went to Prostokvashino on skis. We can recite this cartoon by heart! We warn you: Uspensky’s book is different from him. Here, for example, new heroes appear: the tractor Mitya, the licking dog Shchitsu and even a black man with an accordion.

“Planet of Christmas Trees”, Gianni Rodari

“Just some kind of crazy planet! – thought Marco. “Toy horses instead of taxis, and shops are open on New Year’s Day... The devil himself can’t figure out what’s going on here!”

The weather is always beautiful, and every day is New Year's, goods are free, rain - and those from candies... Who doesn't dream of getting to such a planet, raise your hand! But the boy Marco got there. But will he want to stay there?

“The True Story of Santa Claus”, Andrey Zhvalevsky, Evgenia Pasternak

“And the most important thing is that Santa Claus exists! At least for now they believe in him.”

Walking around St. Petersburg before the New Year 1912, Sergei Ivanovich Morozov and his wife Masha fall under magical snow. This happens once every fifty years. Actually, an exciting story begins with magical snow! It contains both a fairy tale and very real details of Russian history at the beginning of the last century.

“Chuk and Gek”, Arkady Gaidar

“There lived a man in the forest near the Blue Mountains. He worked a lot, but the work didn’t decrease, and he couldn’t go home on vacation...”

One of the most beloved children's writers has written a New Year's adventure story for the ages. Exciting intrigue, taiga romance, a happy ending - and no ideological sinker.

“Odd and the Frost Giants”, Neil Gaiman

“Magic is allowing someone to do what they want and be who they want.”

A little boy, tired of the constant cold, has to go to the city of the gods and save the world from endless winter. An ideal read for lovers of exciting adventures, Scandinavian mythology, humor and magic. In general, a cool fantasy that can take a child away from the computer for a long time!

“Little Santa Claus”, Anu Stoner

“Let them burst with laughter!”

Little ones always suffer from discrimination from those who are bigger. So the big Santa Clauses completely rotted their tiny colleague. And he tries so hard to help everyone and do everything right! And, of course, he will be rewarded. Kindness wins, the kids are comforted.

“Gray Neck”, Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak

I will think about you all the time...” repeated poor Gray Neck. “I’ll keep thinking: where are you, what are you doing, are you having fun?” And it will be as if I am with you.”

Poor little duck! She was wounded by a fox, and now she cannot fly away with the rest of the birds to warmer lands. Cold, hunger, dangerous fox - a complete nightmare. But, of course, as in any good children's book, good friends come to the rescue. This means that a miraculous salvation awaits Gray Neck.

“The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus”, Frank Baum

“She decided to look with her own eyes at the baby Ak was talking about, because she had never seen a human baby before.”

The author of the adventures of Ellie and company tells his interesting version of the biography of Santa Claus. Immortal spirits found him when he was just a baby in a magical forest. And not just found, but raised and educated. The kid grew up and began to help mortals. One day Klaus invented children's toys - this is how he got a profession, the status of a saint and immortality.

“The Legend of the Christmas Rose”, Selma Lagerlöf

“I am the wife of a robber from the Heingen Forest. Just try and touch me – you’ll regret it!”

The robber's family lives in a deep forest - dense and impassable. But every Christmas a miracle happens there: a magical garden blooms. So beautiful that even the vaunted flower garden of the abbot of the monastery cannot compare with it. A story about the power of faith and such difficult things as envy, repentance and forgiveness.

“Winter's Tale”, Sacarias Topelius

“It’s a sin for you to complain! You are only three hundred and fifty years old.”

They like to present Topelius as a younger contemporary of the great Andersen. However, he is quite “his own storyteller.” With its wonderful world, exciting adventures and magic. Perhaps even softer and kinder than his famous teacher.

"New Year. A terribly complicated case,” Yakov Akim, Viktor Dragunsky, Anton Zolotov

“Monsieur professor! New Year is always celebrated sitting at the table. What happens: food is the most important thing in the holiday?”

But who wants not only magical transformations, but also exciting detective investigations? Unraveling a terribly complicated case together with a detective, children receive a lot of educational information, learn everything about celebrating the New Year and even learn how to make gifts and crafts.

“The Christmas of the Sheep”, Haruki Murakami

“So you don’t know about Saint Sheep Day?.. Yes, modern youth don’t know anything! What did they teach you at sheep school?!”

It turns out that a terrible curse can fall on the head of a sheep man if he eats food with a hole on Christmas Eve. And then it turns out that it was imposed only in order to... Well, in general, you did not expect this. Even in a children's fairy tale, the strange world of Murakami remains the same strange world of Murakami. Ironic and very cute story.

“A Christmas Carol”, Charles Dickens

“Have fun at Christmas time! By what right do you want to have fun? What reason do you have for fun? Or do you feel like you’re not poor enough yet?”

Dickens makes Christmas just right. Firstly, we will communicate with the ghost and the Yuletide spirits. Secondly, let’s make sure that the joy of the holiday and kindness are not even empty, but the most important things in the world. And thirdly, let us remember where such a famous character as the miser Scrooge actually came from.

“The Night Before Christmas”, Nikolai Gogol

"No! No! I don't need booties! “- she said, waving her hands and not taking her eyes off him, “I don’t even have booties...” she didn’t finish further and blushed.”

An eternal classic that every schoolchild encounters. And at the same time super-colorful and mischievous. Devils, witches, cunning villagers and cheerful pandemonium, gay-hop! You yourself will probably look into the book over your child’s shoulder and snort for the hundred and first time at the funniest parts.

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So autumn has gone - a generous hostess. Beautiful winter has arrived. What will she bring us? Well, of course joy and fun. After all, everyone’s favorite holiday is celebrated in winter.

But first, let's talk about how to introduce children to winter. It’s so familiar for adults - the seasons change each other. But for a child, every year is a lot of discoveries!

So, first introduce your child to the signs of winter.

· Days in winter are even shorter than in autumn. The sun rarely peeks out from behind the clouds and provides little warmth.

· There are frequent snowfalls: snow flakes quickly fly from low dark clouds. Snow covers the ground with a fluffy blanket and lies on the branches of trees and bushes.

· Blizzards often blow, snow whirlwinds swirl, and drifting snow runs along the ground.

· In winter there are frosty days. Rivers, lakes and ponds are covered with thick ice. Frost draws fancy patterns on the window panes.

· Sometimes there are thaws. The snowdrifts darken and settle, and icicles hang from the roofs.

· Trees and bushes stand without leaves. In winter, they do not eat, do not grow, and seem to fall into deep sleep.

· There are no insects in the forest, there are few birds left, and even those are moving closer to people’s homes. There are even birds that, on the contrary, come to us in winter, for example, the bullfinch. The bullfinch lives in the forest all year and only in winter, when there is nothing to eat there, does it fly to the city. And against the background of white snowdrifts and trees without foliage it becomes very noticeable, which is why in winter we can see bullfinches much more often than at other times of the year. Birds are very helpless in winter, they constantly fly in search of food, so it is necessary to hang feeders for birds.

· Forest animals take refuge from the cold in hollows and burrows or bury themselves in deep snow.

· In winter, people wear warm clothes to avoid freezing. Sweatshirts, pants, coats, fur coats, a scarf, winter boots or felt boots, mittens or gloves on your hands, and a fur hat on your head.

· Children have a lot of fun activities in winter - sledding, skiing and skating. During thaw days, children build snow forts, play snowballs, and make snowmen and animals out of sticky snow. You can build figures of various animals, or maybe fairy-tale characters, out of snow, then paint them in bright colors using gouache diluted in water.

· Children and adults are preparing for the New Year. They decorate the Christmas tree, decorate it with multi-colored balls, beads, garlands, dance around the tree, sing songs, and place gifts under the tree.

Learn the names of the winter months

It would seem that there is nothing difficult in learning the names of a child who is only three months old, however, many preschool children get confused about them. Play a fun game with your children. First, repeat with your child several times what the winter months are. Then name the months of different seasons in a row, and give the baby the task of raising his hand when he hears the name of the winter month.

Look at snowflakes with your child

“Look how the snowflakes are flying. What are they? White, fluffy, carved, light. They look like little stars. If a snowflake falls on your hand, what will happen to it? (do a little experiment with snowflakes)
When a lot of snow falls, large snow piles are formed - snowdrifts. How fun you can play hide and seek by hiding behind them! And armed with shovels, you can even make a small cave! “We’re making a den for the bear so that Mishka has a place to sleep in the forest all winter.”

Wintering birds

Show your child those birds that stayed for the winter - sparrows, pigeons, crows - the bravest birds, not afraid of winter frosts. Show how they differ from each other (size, color). Many children quickly learn to distinguish birds and even imitate them: how they fly, how they sing.
Feed the birds together, tell them that the birds are cold, difficult, and have nothing to eat in winter. Offer to help them by making a feeder.

Read a winter story to children

One day Aunt Winter saw her old friends: Little Hare, Little Squirrel and Little Fox. Having climbed to the top of the mountain, they jumped into the snowdrifts and laughed loudly.

“Now I will teach you an exciting winter activity,” said Aunt Winter. The animals were very happy. They saw snow for the first time, and, of course, did not yet know any winter entertainment.

Aunt Winter waved her magic wand and immediately a fairy-tale sleigh appeared in front of her, on which she deftly seated the Little Bunny.

The sled creaked its runners joyfully and rushed down. Wow, oh, scatter, scatter,” the Little Hare shouted cheerfully, sliding down the mountain.

Little Squirrel and Little Fox looked at this spectacle with fascination. And then, one by one and all together, the animals slid down the mountain, closing their eyes in pleasure.

Having ridden the sleigh to their heart's content, they ran throughout the forest, throwing snowballs at each other, and unnoticed they found themselves on the outskirts of the forest kingdom. And then an unusual creature appeared to the eyes of the Little Hare, Little Squirrel and Little Fox. It consisted of three huge snow globes. The creature had a bucket on its head, a broom in its hands, and a delicious orange carrot sticking out where its nose should be. Seeing her, Bunny's mouth began to water. He immediately remembered summer, the warm sun and how his mother treated him to plenty of sweet carrots.

“Who is this strange snow creature with a carrot?” - the animals were perplexed - “Aunt Winter didn’t tell us anything about him.” We talked about her, and she was right there. “This is the Snowman. He only appears during snowy times. Children sculpt it,” said Aunt Winter. Seeing the Little Bunny looking at the carrot in fascination, she remarked: “You can’t eat this carrot, it’s the Snowman’s nose, but how can you live without a nose?” - asked the winter mistress. Little Squirrel and Little Fox decided to take a closer look at the Snowman. He was huge and wonderful and didn’t talk to anyone.

And the Little Bunny stood nearby and thought: “There are so many things in the world: white snow, a Snowman, a carrot... And also the important Aunt Winter. She promised to tell us many more interesting things.”

Give your children winter riddles

Powdered the paths
I decorated the windows,
Gave joy to children
And I went for a sledding ride. (Winter)

Name it guys
A month in this riddle:
His days are the shortest of all days,
Of all nights longer than night.
To the fields and meadows
It snowed until spring.
Only our month will pass -
We are celebrating the New Year. (December.)

He comes first in the count,
The new year will begin with it.
Open your calendar soon
Read! Written – ... (January.)

The last winter month is a pity,
The shortest one is... (February.)

The ground is covered with fluff,
It's white outside the window.
These white fluffs
Not suitable for featherbeds. (Snow)

I walk in the field, I fly in freedom,
I twist, I mutter, I don’t want to know anyone.
I run along the village,
I'm sweeping up snowdrifts. (Blizzard)

Invisible, carefully
He comes to me
And he draws like an artist
He patterns on the window. (Freezing)

White carrot,
grows in winter. (Icicle)

Apparently the river was frozen
And covered herself with a blanket,
And he’s unlikely to be able to open up,
If the sun doesn't help.
But when spring comes,
The blanket will disappear. (Ice)

Under my feet
Wooden friends.
I fly at them with an arrow,
But not in summer, but in winter. (Skis)

The snow was rolled and kneaded,
We blinded the man
Instead of eyes - two coals,
Where the nose is, there is a carrot,
And in my hands is a broom,
Who is he, our Egorka? (Snowman)

Explain to children proverbs and sayings about winter

The bullfinch will fly in and announce winter.
There are frosts in winter and thunderstorms in summer.
Take care of your nose in the extreme cold.
The frost is not great, but it is not good to stand.
Winter is not summer, she’s wearing a fur coat.
The New Year will lead to spring: it begins the year and marks the middle of winter.
The year ends and winter begins.
Two friends - frost and blizzard.
The stronger the winter, the sooner spring.
Winter without snow is summer without bread.
The snow is deep - the year is good.
Autumn is rich in bread, and winter is rich in snow.
Winter day - sparrow hopping.
On New Year's Day the day was increased by a rabbit's leap.
Prepare a cart in winter and a sleigh in summer.
Winter begins with frosts and ends in drops.
How winter is not angry, but submits to spring.
Winter scares summer, but it still melts.

Prepared by teacher-speech therapist Volostnova N.S.

Stories about winter for primary schoolchildren. You can read these stories to children aged 4 years and older. These are instructive stories and tales about the winter forest, foxes, bunnies, etc. These are stories and tales about good and evil.

What can a snowdrift tell you?

Winter is coming to an end. Do you want to remember what it was like: how often there were snowstorms, how the cold was replaced by thaws?

Take a shovel and cut the snowdrift in half. It is all striped, layered: a gray layer, then a white layer, white and gray, gray and white.

What can the white layer tell you? About the sky from which snowflakes fell. The more of them fell, the thicker the white layer will be.

What will the gray layer tell you? The fact that the old snow had become contaminated, but new, clean snow had not fallen for a long time.

And the icy crust across the snowdrift? What will she tell you about? About the thaw.

What about a branch with dry leaves that is firmly frozen into a snowdrift? About the storm that tore it from the tree.

This is how the snowdrift kept a record of the weather all winter, and it will tell you everything, just know how to ask it.

Hurry up and ask in time before he melts!

Old man one year old.

A fairy tale-mystery.

The one-year old man came out. He began to wave his sleeve and let the birds fly. Each bird has its own special name. The old one-year-old waved for the first time - and the first three birds flew away. There was a whiff of cold and frost.

The old man waved a second time - and the second troika flew off. The snow began to melt, flowers appeared in the fields.

The old man waved a third time - the third troika flew. It became hot, stuffy, sultry. The peasants began to reap rye.

The old one-year-old waved for the fourth time, and three more birds flew. A cold wind blew, frequent rain fell, and fog settled in.

But the birds were not ordinary. Each bird has four wings. Each wing has seven feathers, each feather also with its own name. One half of the feather is white, the other is black. A bird flaps once and it becomes light-light; if it flaps again, it becomes dark-dark.

Songs under the ice.

It happened in winter: my skis started singing! I was skiing across the lake, and the skis were singing. They sang well, like birds.

And there is snow and frost all around. Nostrils stick together and teeth freeze.

The forest is silent, the lake is silent. The roosters in the village are silent. And the skis sing!

And their song is like a stream, it flows and rings. But it’s not the skis that really sing, even the wooden ones. Someone is singing under the ice, right under my feet.

If I had left then, the under-ice song would have remained a wonderful forest mystery. But I didn't leave...

I lay down on the ice and hung my head into the black hole.

Over the winter, the water in the lake dried up, and the ice hung over the water like an azure ceiling. Where it hung, and where it collapsed, and steam curled up from the dark holes. But it’s not the fish that sing there with bird voices, is it? Maybe there really is a stream there? Or maybe icicles born from steam are ringing?

And the song rings. It is alive and clean, something neither a stream, nor fish, nor icicles can sing like.

Only one creature in the world can sing like this - a bird...

I hit the ice with my ski and the song stopped. I stood quietly - the song began to ring again.

Then I hit the ice with my ski as hard as I could. And now a miracle bird flew out of the dark hole. She sat down on the edge of the hole and bowed to me three times.

- Hello, ice songster!

The bird nodded again and sang an ice song in plain sight.

- But I know you! - I said. - You dipper - a water sparrow!

Dipper did not answer: he only knew how to bow and nod. Again he slipped under the ice, and his song thundered from there. So what if it's winter? Under the ice there is no wind, no frost, no hawk. Under the ice there is black water and a mysterious green twilight. There, if you whistle louder, everything will ring: the echo will rush, hitting the icy ceiling, hung with ringing icicles. Why shouldn't the dipper sing?

Why shouldn't we listen to him?

Bureau of Forest Services.

Cold February arrived in the forest. He made snowdrifts on the bushes and covered the trees with frost. And although the sun is shining, it is not warming.

Ferret says:

- Save yourself as best you can!

And Magpie chirps:

-Everyone for himself again? Alone again? No, everyone should unite against a common misfortune! So everyone says about us that we only peck and squabble in the forest. It's even a shame...

Here the Hare got involved:

- That's right, the Magpie is chirping. There is safety in numbers. I propose to create a Bureau of Forest Services. For example, I can help partridges. I tear the snow on the winter fields to the ground every day, let them peck the seeds and greens there after me - I don’t mind. Write me, Soroka, to the Bureau as number one!

- There is still a smart head in our forest! - Soroka was happy. - Who is next?

- We're next! - the crossbills shouted. “We peel the cones on the trees and drop half of the cones whole.” Use it, voles and mice, don’t mind!

“The hare is a digger, crossbills are throwers,” wrote Magpie.

- Who is next?

“Sign us up,” the beavers grumbled from their hut. “We piled so many aspen trees in the fall—there’s enough for everyone.” Come to us, moose, roe deer, hares, gnaw on the juicy aspen bark and branches!

And it went, and it went!

Woodpeckers offer their hollows for the night, crows invite them to carrion, crows promise to show them their dumps. Soroka barely has time to write down.

The Wolf also trotted out at the noise. He straightened his ears, looked up with his eyes and said:

- Sign me up for the Bureau too!

- Are you, Volka, at the Service Bureau? What do you want to do in it?

“I will serve as a watchman,” answers the Wolf.

-Who can you guard?

- I can guard everyone! Hares, moose and roe deer near the aspen trees, partridges in the greens, beavers in the huts. I'm an experienced watchman. He guarded the sheep in the sheepfold, the chickens in the chicken coop...

- You are a robber from a forest road, not a watchman! - Magpie shouted. - Come on, come on, pass by! We know you. It’s me, Soroka, who will guard everyone in the forest from you: when I see you, I’ll raise a cry! I will write down not you, but myself as a watchman in the Bureau: “Magpie is a watchman.” Am I worse than others, or what?

This is how bird-animals live in the forest. It happens, of course, that they live in such a way that only fluff and feathers fly. But it happens, and they help each other out.

Anything can happen in the forest.

Forest thaw.

Oh, what a soft, warm thaw it was!.. Snowflakes were swirling, and the forest smelled of spring. The hedgehog sat on the porch of his house, sniffed the air and smiled.

“It can’t be,” he thought, “that just yesterday the trees were cracking in the forest and the angry Santa Claus was creaking under the windows with his large felt boots, but today he’s not there at all! Where is he?"

And the Hedgehog began to wonder where Santa Claus could hide.

“If he climbed a pine tree,” the Hedgehog reasoned, “then somewhere under the pine tree there are his big felt boots. After all, even Little Bear can’t climb a pine tree in felt boots!

If he climbed under the ice,” Hedgehog continued to think, “then somewhere on the river there must be a hole and steam must come from it. Because Santa Claus sits in felt boots at the bottom and breathes. And if he completely left the forest, I will definitely see his traces!”

And the Hedgehog put on his skis and ran between the trees. But there were no felt boots under any tree, he did not see a single hole in the river and did not find any traces anywhere.

- Father Frost! - Hedgehog shouted. - Call me back!..

But it was quiet. Only snowflakes were spinning around and somewhere far, far away a Woodpecker was knocking.

The hedgehog stopped, closed his eyes and imagined a beautiful Woodpecker with red feathers and a long nose. A woodpecker was sitting on the top of a pine tree, from time to time he threw his head back, squinted and, as if angry, knocked with his nose: knock! Pine bark splashed and, rustling softly, fell into the snow...

“Probably the Woodpecker knows where Santa Claus is,” thought the Hedgehog. “He sits high and can see everything.”

And he ran to the Woodpecker.

- Woodpecker! - Hedgehog shouted from afar. —Have you seen Santa Claus?

- Knock Knock! - said Woodpecker. - He left!

- Where are his traces?

The Woodpecker hung his nose towards the Hedgehog, squinted, looked at him and said:

- And he left without a trace!

- How? - Hedgehog was surprised.

- It’s very simple! A cloud arrived and sank low. Santa Claus first threw felt boots on him, then he climbed in and swam away...

- Where? - asked the Hedgehog.

- To Kudykina Mountain. Knock Knock! - said Woodpecker.

And the Hedgehog, reassured, went home and along the road imagined the snow-covered Kudykina Mountain, on which Santa Claus was probably walking now and creaking his large felt boots.

WHAT YOU NEED TO TELL CHILDREN ABOUT WINTER
plants, animals, snow, labor, nature

Winter-winter... This is the coldest time of the year. Winter months are December, January and February.

What changes occur in inanimate nature in winter?

With the onset of winter it becomes colder and frosts come. Almost always in winter the sky is covered with clouds, which no longer bring rain, but snow. It covers the ground, tree branches, and roofs of houses. Frost freezes lakes, rivers, and streams with ice. This happens because the sun at this time of year is low above the ground and does not warm the earth. Cold air brings clouds, in which raindrops turn into snowflakes under the influence of cold.

In calm weather, snowflakes fall to the ground calmly, but as soon as the wind blows, a blizzard rises, leaving behind drifts and snowdrifts. In winter there are severe frosts. In such weather, the snow becomes loose and creaky.

Sometimes in winter, warm air currents reach snowy areas and slightly increase the air temperature. The thaw is coming - warm sunny days, during which the snow becomes soft, and snowballs and snowmen can be made from it.

White, patterned
Little star,
You fly into my hand
Sit a minute!
The star spun
There's a little in the air
Sat down and melted
On my palm.

The top layer of water in reservoirs - rivers, lakes, ponds and streams - freezes and becomes covered with a thick layer of ice.

At the end of winter, when the sun warms the roofs, the snow begins to melt, but the frost manages to turn the water into icicles. During the thaw, when the glass of the windows is covered with a thin layer of water, the frost forms fantastic patterns on them. This is a thin layer of ice, which consists of tiny crystals folded into bizarre shapes.

What are the types of snow and ice?

Sometimes tree branches, telephone wires, and antennas on the roofs of houses become covered with frost - fluffy snow.
Snow and ice are lighter than water, so in the spring, ice floes and snowdrifts float down the river until they melt and turn into water.
Brittle, transparent ice and loose, loose snow turn into water under the influence of heat, and water under the influence of cold turns into ice and snow.

Plants in winter

At the end of winter, new changes occur in inanimate nature. The sun rises higher above the earth, shines brighter and appears more often from behind the clouds. Although the frosts have not yet weakened, on sunny days the snow is already beginning to melt. During the night, the melted snow freezes again, and by morning a crust appears - a dense ice crust. Snow covers the ground with a thick carpet, under which, despite the cold, life continues. It turns out that it is the blanket of snow that keeps plants alive. If you measure the air temperature above the snow and under the snow, on the soil, it will be very different. Above the snow, the thermometer shows 40° below zero, but on the soil - only 10° below zero. Even if the snow thickness is small, only 10 centimeters, the temperature on the soil will be 15-20° higher than above the snow. This is why herbaceous plants such as strawberries, covered with snow, do not die and even continue to grow. Wheat, strawberries, cranberries, and rye overwinter under the snow.

A blanket of snow warms not only plants, but also animals that get their food by making tunnels in the snow. Mostly mice. They feed on the seeds of plants covered with snow. The dens of bears, the holes of badgers and hedgehogs are also covered with snow, which keeps them warm.

Most plants prepare for winter in advance. In autumn, some herbaceous plants, withering, leave their seeds on the soil. New grasses will grow from them in the spring. Plants that reproduce by tubers, bulbs and rhizomes remain in the soil under a blanket of snow. Some of them, for example, goose onion, corydalis, and oak anemone, continue to grow and turn green even under the snow, and bloom with the arrival of warmth.

Conifers overwinter with green leaves. Cones remain on them all winter. Fruits also remain on other plants - maple, acacia, mountain ash, rose hips, elderberry.

Trees and shrubs, shackled by the cold, fall into winter sleep. But despite the fact that almost all the trees have shed their leaves for the winter, buds remain on their branches. Already at the end of January, the buds on the willow are increasing. Inside the bud are small green leaves. The outside of the buds is covered with dark scales. When the buds enlarge, they shed their scales and become covered with light fluff. That’s why willows look like they’re covered in silver by the end of winter. Buds are also growing on other trees. Winter does not stop plant growth, it only delays it.

Birds in winter

Cold and lack of food force migratory birds to fly to warmer climes, but wintering types find food for themselves. They feed on insects hidden in dry leaves, under the bark of trees, in cracks in houses and fences. In addition, buds, fruits and seeds remained on the branches of trees and bushes.

Some birds, such as tits and nuthatches, use reserves in winter that they made in the fall.

Crossbills feed on spruce and pine seeds. The seeds of these trees ripen in winter, so crossbills hatch chicks at this time of year. They have enough food to feed themselves and their offspring. Crossbill chicks are not cold in winter because they are always well-fed.

During blizzards and snowfalls, as well as in severe frost, when the trees are covered with frost, it is difficult for birds to get insects from under the bark. After several hours of starvation, some birds may die. Therefore, it is very important to feed birds in winter. Set up feeders in gardens, parks and public gardens. Birds fly to feeders and peck not only the seeds, grains and bread crumbs you leave, but also insect pests on trees and shrubs located next to the feeder. This is how birds bring great benefits.

If birds constantly find food in the feeders, then they will fly to them in the summer, which means they will clean the trees of pests all year round.

Along the silver path
As soon as New Year comes,
On a high thin leg
The miracle Christmas tree is rising.

This is not a simple tree,
And it's not for guys.
Flying near the Christmas tree,
Birds whistle merrily.

There are woodpeckers and titmice here,
Bullfinches and sparrows -
Everybody wants to have fun
Near your Christmas tree!

Toys don't shine on her
And the star does not shine,
But there are feeders for birds
We hung it there!

Flocks of birds arrive
To our Christmas tree in the winter garden,
And in the garden without stopping
The bells are ringing.
Z.Alexandrova

Animals in winter

Fluffy fur and warm wool save animals from the winter cold. The main concern for animals in winter is nutrition. Even a badger, which has accumulated enough fat during the fall and hibernated during the winter, sometimes wakes up to eat something from its reserves.
Only the bear does not wake up - he has enough fat for the whole winter. The bear sleeps very lightly. We can say that he is not sleeping, but dozing, listening to everything that is happening around him.
By the end of winter, the mother bear gives birth to small, blind cubs. The bear feeds them with her milk. Only a month later, in the spring, when the sun warms up, the cubs begin to see clearly and come out of the den to play and learn to get food for themselves.
Animals are not afraid of not only winter frost, but also hunger. They have long adapted to living in winter conditions and know that food must be stored in the fall.
In winter, foxes, hares, moose, and wolves can find food for themselves. The main winter food of foxes is mice. Thanks to its keen vision, hearing and sense of smell, the fox finds up to 20 mice a day.
Deer, moose and hares feed on the bark of trees and shrubs in winter. This is not as nutritious food as grass, so people feed them with hay, aspen and willow branches and salt.
The chipmunk stores up to 10 kilograms of nuts and grains for the winter. He brings them in cheek pouches and hides them in his storerooms.
A squirrel sometimes hides its supplies so much that later it cannot find them. Then she has to eat spruce and pine seeds. She especially likes the seeds from spruce cones: they contain more fat than pine cones and are much more nutritious.
On warm autumn days, the small animal vole brings various grains and seeds into its burrow and puts them in separate burrows.
But some animals do not make any reserves. The river otter doesn't need them. In ice water she is not cold and always has enough food. It feeds on fish, frogs, crayfish and water rats. Fish can easily find food in winter, but they can die from lack of air: air does not pass through the ice. It becomes difficult for fish to breathe, so in winter people make holes in the ice. To prevent the water from freezing again, straw is placed in the hole and sprinkled with snow.

Pets in winter
Pets don't look for food; people take care of that. Since summer, farmers have been preparing supplies of silage, hay, straw, and grain. In winter, cows, goats, sheep, and pigs are kept in warm rooms, where the cleanliness and health of the animals are monitored.
At this time, cows give birth to calves, sheep - lambs, and pigs - piglets. The cubs feed on mother's milk until they are transferred to prepared food.

Winter in the city
Winter in the city is different from winter in the forest or field. Warm buildings, structures, an abundance of transport, a large number of people and night lighting increase the air temperature in the city. Therefore, in addition to the sparrows, crows and magpies that are familiar to the city, you can now find starlings, jackdaws, blackbirds, woodpeckers, and goldfinches remaining for the winter. Berries on trees and bushes serve as excellent food for them, and attics become good shelters throughout the winter. In addition, birds find food in city landfills.
In winter, small rodents begin to move closer to people's homes. In basements and tunnels they are warm and there is always food. And their enemies - ferrets, weasels, and stoats - follow the mice.

People's work in winter

In winter, people take care of their pets. Several times a day they distribute food, supply water, and remove manure. Receiving good nutrition, cows provide milk in winter, and rabbits, sheep and pigs provide a sufficient amount of meat.

Work does not stop on snow-covered fields - preparations are underway for spring sowing. Manure and fertilizers are transported to the fields and work is carried out to retain snow: shields are installed, deep furrows are plowed - in the spring, the water needed by the soil accumulates in these places. The more moisture there is in the fields, the richer the harvest will be.

In rural workshops, seeders, tractors, cultivators, harrows, and plows are being prepared for spring work. They need to be checked and repaired.

In gardens, plants are covered with snow, protecting them from frost. Snow must be compacted near fruit trees to prevent mice from getting to them.

In winter, vitamin-rich sea buckthorn berries are collected. Frozen berries fall from the branches after a light tap on the trunk.

In granaries, they ensure that they have a constant temperature. This is especially important for grain seeds. In vegetable stores, vegetables are regularly sorted, removing rotten ones.
In the city, to prevent snow from interfering with traffic, special machines clear roads, tram and railway tracks. After the thaw, the roads are covered with a layer of ice, so they are sprinkled with sand.

Winter is in a hurry, busy,
Wrapped in snow
All the bumps and stumps,
Benches and haystacks.

Mittens turn white
On birch branches,
So that they don't catch a cold,
To withstand the cold.

Winter told the oak
Throw on lush fur,
I put a fur coat on the spruce tree,
She covered everyone warmly.

Long lasting and reliable
The river held the ice together.
You can walk along the river -
Come join us, New Year!
O. Vysotskaya.