The winged alarm clock is the essence of the story. Book: Chaplina, Vera Vasilievna “The Winged Alarm Clock”

Target:

1) Expanding students’ knowledge about the work of V. Chaplina based on read stories about animals and birds.

2) Speech correction based on answers to questions, conclusions and communications.

3) Fostering a careful, caring attitude towards nature using the example of the actions of heroes.

Visual material: a bright sign “Let's take care of our native nature!”, an exhibition of books about animals, drawings for the stories we read, poems, riddles about birds and animals, envelopes with tasks, a drawing of an owl, the words: “What? Where? When?" Team emblems, recording of the songs “Everybody Needs Friends,” “The Dog Is Missing,” “When My Friends Are With Me.”

Form: game “What? Where? When?".

Lesson progress

Organizational moment.

Teacher. Guys, today we are playing a game at the “What? Where? When?". The range of questions is limited to the stories of V. Chaplina.

Let's remember the rules by which experts play in the club:

a) time will be given to think about the question: the captain gives the participants the right to answer.

b) the correctness of the answers is assessed on a five-point system.

c) each team must work together and in concert.

In order for each team to feel strength and confidence, everyone is invited to sing together V. Shainsky’s song “When my friends are with me.”

Teacher. The first round is announced - “Team Presentation” (teams are calledmotto, present their emblem).

The first team is “Winged Alarm Clock” (the titmouse emblem, the motto “Everyone needs friends”).

The second team is “Mushka” (the emblem is a dog, the motto is “Don’t tease dogs...”).

Teacher. The second round is announced - “Guess it” (each team is offered 2 riddles).

A fur coat and a caftan walks across the mountains and valleys.(Sheep.)

Silent during the day, grumbling at night. Who goes to the owner and lets him know?(Dog.)

Teacher. Which of the stories you read can the answers be attributed to?(“Belyanka”, “Mushka”.)

They appeared in a yellow fur coat - goodbye, two shells.(Chickens).

A little boy in a gray army jacket is running around the yard, collecting crumbs.(Sparrow.)

Which of the stories you read relate to your answers?(“Gift”, “Winged Alarm Clock”.)

Teacher. Musical break. (Both teams perform the song “The Dog is Missing” (edited by A. Lamm, music by V. Shainsky)).

Teacher. What work does this drawing belong to? What episode is shown here? (Each team is offered several drawings from different stories.)

Teacher. Fourth round. Read the poems by heart (team members read 2 poems each).

The Winged Alarm Clock team reads:

Tit

I hear a titmouse ringing

Among the yellowing branches.

Hello, little bird,

Herald of autumn days!

Even though he threatens us with bad weather,

Even though he is our prophet of winter,

Breathes blessed light

I. Turgenev

sparrows

Sparrows are playful,

Like lonely children,

Huddled by the window

And there's a snowstorm in the yard

Spreads a silk carpet,

It's painfully cold.

The little birds are cold,

Hungry, tired

And they huddle tighter.

And the blizzard roars madly

Knocks on the hanging shutters

And he gets angrier.

S. Yesenin

Team "Mushka" reads :

Forest

Hello forest, dense forest,

Full of fairy tales and miracles.

What are you making noise about?

On a dark, stormy night?

What do you whisper to us at dawn?

All in dew, like in silver?

Who is hiding in your wilderness?

What kind of animal? What bird?

Open everything, don’t hide it,

You see: we are our own.

S. Pogorelovsky

Every day when we get up,

My brother and I are alone,

Taking cereals and bread crumbs,

We quickly run to the porch.

Many different and good

Friends are flying to us.

Birds are sitting on the feeder,

They clean their beaks.

There are goldfinches, siskins, tits and sneaky sparrows here.

The handsome bullfinches are also patiently waiting for us.

Everyone is used to it, not shy,

At least take them with your hands.

G. Ladanshchikov

Musical break. The song “Everyone Needs Friends” is performed (art by P. Sinyavsky, music by 3. Kompaneets).

Teacher. The fifth round is announced. What stories are these excerpts from?

“Needless to say, how happy Vitalik was. Together with dad, they made a box, covered it with mesh on top, and inside, to keep the box warm, dad hung an electric light bulb. Then the floor in the box was sprinkled with dry sand and the chickens were placed there.”("Present" .)

“When Luda came from school, the dog always met her at the door. She jumped joyfully, caressed her, then grabbed Lyudin’s mittens in her teeth and carried her into the room. She always put them in their place, under the bed, and if anyone tried to take the mittens from the house, except Lyuda... The dog didn’t give them to anyone.”(“Front sight.”)

Teacher. The decisive moment of the game “Captain Competition” (the captains are asked questions one by one).

Who is Belyanka? What was Vitya like from the story “Belyanka”? What did Aunt Glasha give Vita? What did dad offer to Seryozha? How did Seryozha feel about birds? Why is the story called “The Winged Alarm Clock”?

While the results are being summed up, the whole class is working on the questions.

Questions:

What activity did Vitalik come up with for the chickens?

What kind of boy did Vitalik grow up?

Why did Luda bring home a dog?

What can you say about this girl?

How did Mushka thank her owner?

Teacher. Read the passage in this story that you liked best. What do these stories have in common? What do they teach you? What should we strive for?

In conclusion, a song from the muses is performed. V. Melnik, ate. N. Starshinova “Let’s save”

Lesson summary. The winning team is announced, and prizes are awarded to the best players.

The librarian introduces students to the exhibition and reviews books about nature.

Homework assignment. Read the stories of V. Oseeva.

Seryozha is happy. He moved to a new house with his mom and dad. 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. You can also shoot accurately and learn everything from your 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 into the birds through the window. 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 arrived.

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 will see that no one is offending them, and they will 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 severe frosts began. 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 flocked from all sides, chirping loudly, 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.

Biography

Vera Chaplina was born in Moscow, into a hereditary noble family in the house of her grandfather, a prominent heating engineer and professor (philanthropist and teacher of the architect). Mother, Lidia Vladimirovna Chaplina, graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, father, Vasily Mikhailovich Kutyrin, is a lawyer. After the 1917 revolution, in the chaos of the Civil War, 10-year-old Vera got lost and, like a street child, ended up in an orphanage in.

“Only the love of animals helped me survive this first great grief,” the writer later recalled, “Even while in an orphanage, I managed to keep puppies, kittens and chicks... During the day I took my pets to the huge garden near the house, and at night I dragged them into bedroom and hid some in the nightstand, some under the bed, and some under her blanket. Sometimes one of the teachers discovered my pets and I had a great time.” Love for animals and responsibility for the lives of her “little brothers” instilled in the little girl determination and the ability to overcome difficulties. These character traits determined her life and creative path.

In 1923, Vera was found by her mother and brought to Moscow. Soon she began going to the zoo and joined the circle of young biologists (), which was led by the professor. The future writer not only nursed animal cubs and took care of them, she observed the animals, led scientific work, tried to ensure that the animals did not particularly feel that they were in captivity.

At the age of 25, Vera Chaplina becomes one of the innovators of the Moscow Zoo. She will forever remain in its history as the initiator and leader of the site created in 1933, where “not only healthy and strong young animals were raised, but it was also done so that different animals could live peacefully with each other.” This experiment aroused unprecedented interest among the audience, and the young cattle site became one of the “ business cards» Moscow Zoo.

Vera Chaplina at the young animals' area of ​​the Moscow Zoo

At the same time, Vera Chaplina’s first short stories appeared in the magazine, and immediately after these publications, the Detgiz publishing house entered into an agreement with her for a book about the young animals’ playground. “Kids from the Green Playground” was published in 1935 and was a success, but the young writer assessed the book critically, significantly revised its text for a new collection of stories, and did not include it at all in subsequent editions.

Like many authors, Chaplina’s defining book was her second book, “My Pupils” (1937). And indeed, the stories included in it, including “Argo”, “Loska”, “Tyulka”, not only revealed the writer’s own style, but also became one of the best in her work. And the story about a lioness raised in a city apartment, in addition, turned out to be a real bestseller, expected by readers even before its publication.

Vera Chaplina, the lioness Kinuli and the dog Peri in the room of a communal apartment at house No. 16 on Bolshaya Dmitrovka

The events described in this story began in the spring of 1935 and already in the fall were widely known not only in Moscow, but also far beyond its borders thanks to numerous newspaper articles and reports in film magazines. Chaplin was literally bombarded with a stream of letters from unfamiliar children and adults from different cities of the country. Moreover, most of them, not knowing her exact address, simply labeled the envelopes: “Moscow Zoo, They threw Chaplina.” Soon fame becomes international: in December, the American “The Christian Science Monitor” publishes a large article about Vera Chaplina, Kinuli and the young stock; then an agreement was concluded with her to publish her works abroad, and in 1939 a book of her stories “My Animal Friends” was published in London.

In 1937, she was appointed head of the predator section. Vera Chaplin devoted more than 30 years to the Moscow Zoo, and in 1946 she switched to full-time literary work. In 1947, her new collection “Four-Legged Friends” was published, in which, in addition to the revised text, for the first time such stories as “Fomka the Polar Bear Cub”, “Wolf Pupil”, “Kutsyy”, “Shango” and others appeared. “Four-Legged Friends” was an extraordinary success: within a few years it was republished not only in Moscow, but also in Warsaw, Prague, Bratislava, Sofia, and Berlin. And when Chaplina joined the Writers’ Union in 1950, those who recommended her were perplexed why this did not happen much earlier.

Cover of “Four-legged Friends”, Detgiz, Moscow-Leningrad, 1949.

The naturalist writer became Vera Chaplina's literary co-author from the late 1940s. In collaboration they create scripts for the cartoons “Forest Travelers” (1951) and “” (1954). After a joint trip to Western Belarus, a book of essays “In Belovezhskaya Pushcha” (1949) was published. And yet, the main writing material for Chaplina continues to be the life of the Moscow Zoo. In 1955, she published a collection of short stories, Zoo Pets (finally completed in 1965).

In the 1950-1960s, the heroes of Vera Chaplina’s works, in addition to readers of socialist countries, were introduced to France, Japan, and the USA, and her books, one of the few at that time, widely represented the image of Soviet children’s literature abroad. This is quite remarkable, because Soviet ideology was completely absent from them. However, this circumstance did not prevent the International Book publishing house from publishing “Four-Legged Friends” and “Zoo Pets” in Spanish, Hindi, Arabic and other languages, expanding the circle of its foreign readers.

In the collection “The Shepherd’s Friend” (1961) and in the cycle of later stories “Chance Meetings” (1976), new features of Vera Chaplina’s work appear. Close-ups and bright colors, which created upbeat and sometimes dramatic portraits of four-legged heroes, are being replaced by images that seem to be on a smaller scale. But now they seem to come from the reader’s own life. It seems that Chaplin's Vera no longer tells stories so much as simply helps us notice and discern our not always noticeable four-legged and winged neighbors. Stories “Funny Little Bear”, “Spoiled Vacation”, “Puska”, “How Good!” - are full of comic situations that sometimes happen to us when we get to know “charming” animals more closely. What the animals do can easily infuriate even a very calm person, and Vera Chaplin talks about this wittily, but without ridicule. It is clear that the writer herself has found herself in similar situations more than once, and that the people whom she shows as confused and angry are, in spite of everything, capable of maintaining a kind, humane attitude towards their little “tormentors”.

Subject: V. Chaplin “Winged Alarm Clock”

Target: Study V. Chaplina’s story “The Winged Alarm Clock”

Tasks :

    Introduce students to the features of V. Chaplina’s story “The Winged Alarm Clock”

    Develop the skills of correct, conscious reading, learn to express your impressions, share your ideas with friends, expand your reading horizons, observation skills; create an atmosphere for empathy and an emotional response to the work. Correctionoral speech that recreates the imagination.

    Bring upa feeling of compassion for birds; learn to help them.

Lesson progress .

1.Organizational moment

Who wants to talk

He must reprimand

Everything is correct and clear,

So that it is clear to everyone.

We will talk

And we will reprimand

So correct and clear

So that it is clear to everyone.

II . Communicating the topic and purpose of the lesson

- My alarm clock is not electric

And not at all mechanical.

He flies outside the window with a sharp beak and wing

This is a small bird, and its name is.....

- Today we will meetstory by V. Chaplina “The Winged Alarm Clock”

III . Working on breathing. Work on clarity of pronunciation.

1. Breathing exercises

2.Work on tongue twister

3.Text for speech charging

IV .Checking homework

    Who took care of the forest inhabitants?

    What is the name of the main character of the story?

    Why did Kolya go to the forest?

    Who did Kolya once save?

    How did Kolya help the deer?

    What did Kolya feed Lenka?

    How did the deer greet the boy?

Retelling chapter 4 according to plan.

V . Working on a new topic

1.Teacher's opening speech

Mikhailova Vera Vasilievna, literary pseudonym
Vera Chaplina - a famous children's writer whose life is connected with the Moscow Zoo. At the age of 15, Vera Chaplina entered the circle of young biologists, where she not only nursed the cubs and took care of them, she observed the animals and did everything so that the animals did not particularly feel that they were in captivity. All the writer’s books tell about the life of animals, both in the zoo and in the wild. They are dedicated to people who work with animals and give them their warmth and affection.

. 2.Vocabulary work

Plane

3.Reading the text by the teacher

Now we will listen to part 1 of the story and answer the question: What did Seryozha and dad do?

4.Primary perception of the text

Why was Seryozha unhappy when dad decided to make a feeding trough?

How did the boy's attitude towards sparrows change?

Message

Tits are small, smart, dexterous, brave birds. The largest weighs more than 20 grams, the smallest weighs less than 10 grams (for comparison, take a simple pencil). These birds are so named because they emit a loud melodic whistle: “si-si.” So they called them tits.

5. Physical training

6.Secondary perception of the text

1. Selective reading.

2.Working with additional material

November 12 Titmouse's day

(day of meeting wintering birds)

The titmouse starts squeaking in the morning - expect frost at night.

Tits flutter under the window - to the cold.

If a tit sits on your hand, you need to make a wish. If a titmouse gives voice, the wish will come true.

7.Gymnastics for the eyes

Exercise "Owl"

VI .Corrective task

Piggy bank of good deeds

VII .Reinforcement

Reading the text “to yourself”

Quiz

VIII .Summing up the lesson. Evaluation of work results. Grading.

What illustrations would you draw for the story?

IX .Homework: pp.87-90 read, retell

1. The author of the work “The Winged Alarm Clock”?

2.Who was the “winged alarm clock”?

3.Name of the boy who took care of the birds?

4.What did dad and Seryozha make?

5.What do tits like most?

6.What other birds are mentioned in the story?

7. At what time did the titmouse knock on the window?

8.What should you not feed birds in severe frost?

1. The author of the work “The Winged Alarm Clock”?

2.Who was the “winged alarm clock”?

3.Name of the boy who took care of the birds?

4.What did dad and Seryozha make?

5.What do tits like most?

6.What other birds are mentioned in the story?

7. At what time did the titmouse knock on the window?

8.What should you not feed birds in severe frost?

1. The author of the work “The Winged Alarm Clock”?

2.Who was the “winged alarm clock”?

3.Name of the boy who took care of the birds?

4.What did dad and Seryozha make?

5.What do tits like most?

6.What other birds are mentioned in the story?

7. At what time did the titmouse knock on the window?

8.What should you not feed birds in severe frost?

Soon we began releasing Fomka onto the young stock area. At first they released one, but Fomka did not play alone. He wandered from corner to corner and whimpered pitifully from boredom. Then we decided to introduce him to other animals. We released foxes, bear cubs, wolf cubs, and a raccoon onto the site. When all the animals were playing, they let Fomka in.

Fomka left the cage as if he had not seen anyone, but by the way he sniffed, how low he lowered his head and looked from under his brows with his small eyes, it was clear that he noticed everything and everyone.

The animals also saw him right away, but they each reacted to him in their own way: the wolf cubs tucked their tails and, looking carefully, stepped aside, the raccoons had all their fur standing on end, making them look like big balls, and the badger cubs rushed in different directions and instantly disappeared from sight. But the brown bear cubs were most frightened. As if on command, they stood on their hind legs, widened their eyes and looked for a long time in surprise at the polar bear they were unfamiliar with. And when he headed towards them, they roared in horror and, knocking each other down, climbed to the very top of the tree.

The bravest ones were the foxes and dingoes. They hovered around the bear cub's face, but every time he tried to catch someone, they deftly dodged.

In a word, on the site where there were so many animals, Fomka was again left alone.

Then we released the tiger cub. His name was Orphan. They called him that because he grew up without a mother.

The animals were afraid of the Orphan’s strong, clawed paw and avoided her. But how could Fomka know this? Before we had time to release the Orphan, he immediately ran to her. The orphan hissed at the stranger and raised her paw in warning. But the bear cub did not understand the tiger’s language. He came closer and the next second received such a slap in the face that he could barely stand on his feet.

Such a treacherous blow infuriated Fomka. Lowering his head low, he rushed at the offender with a roar.

When we came running in response to the noise, it was difficult to make out where the tiger cub was and where the bear cub was. Both clung tightly to each other, growling and rolling on the ground, and only white and red fur flew in clumps in all directions. With great difficulty we managed to separate the fighters. They put them in cages and only a few days later they decided to release them again.

Just in case, they were now being watched, but our fears were in vain. Having faced off, they began to treat each other with great respect. Fomka did not approach Orphan, and Orphan did not swing her paw at him when he passed by.

The other animals also reacted differently to Fomka. The brown bear cubs came to fight him, but the wolf cubs and raccoons no longer ran away. And yet Fomka was not interested in them. He willingly chased fox cubs and dingoes, fought with bear cubs, but it was clear how much stronger he was than everyone else and how easily victory was given to him. Fomka wanted to measure his strength with an equal opponent, and only Orphan was such an opponent. She was also noticeably interested in Fomka.

They got to know each other gradually, in the game, and after two weeks they were already real friends.

They spent whole days together. It was interesting to watch their games. The orphan liked to hide and then attack unexpectedly. It used to be that Fomka was walking, and she would jump out, grab the bear cub by the collar, ruffle him once or twice, and run. But Fomka, on the contrary, loved to fight. He will grab the tiger cub with his paws, press him to himself and try to put him on both shoulder blades. It’s hard to escape from the bear’s hug, but the striped predator doesn’t give up: it rests its paws on Fomka’s stomach and tries to push it away from itself. A lot of people gathered at the site then. There were some fans who specially came to watch their fight.

Usually the fight ended in a draw. But one day the Orphan got so tired of the clumsy bear cub that he climbed into the water from her. Fomka is sitting, chilling, and Orphan is walking around, unable to reach him. She walked like this for a long time, then she couldn’t stand it and she jumped! She missed and fell into the water. It was here that Fomka gave her a beating. In the water he turned out to be much more agile than a tiger. In one minute he crushed him under himself and carried him under the water so much that he almost drowned. All wet and frightened, Orphan barely escaped from the bear hug and shamefully ran to her cage. After this, Orphan was already afraid to approach the pool when Fomka was sitting there, and even went to another place to drink water.

However, this incident did not hinder their friendship in the least, and they still spent most of the day playing games.

Fomka becomes dangerous

By autumn, Fomka had grown so much that it was difficult to recognize him as the old bear cub. True, he, as before, got along well with the animals on the playground, did not offend the weak and was friends with Orphan, but he began to behave much worse with people. Previously, I obeyed, but now I didn’t allow myself to be controlled even by Aunt Katya.

Poor Aunt Katya! She had to resort to all sorts of tricks to force Fomka into the cage if he didn’t want to do this.

Usually all the young animals were lured into a cage to feed. They put in something edible and they immediately run in. But you can’t tempt Fomka with food. His belly was always filled with food, like a drum. They gave him handouts for every little thing: for not going near the barrier, for not interfering with cleaning the playground, and, finally, simply for not biting. As soon as Fomka looks the wrong way, they immediately shove something tasty at him. In a word, for every trifle Fomka was paid with food, and by the end of the day he was so full that he did not go to the cage for the best treat.

And what didn’t Aunt Katya do then to lure Fomka! She begged the stubborn man for a long time, trying to interest him in something. Fomka turned out to be a very curious little bear. As soon as he saw an unfamiliar thing, he hurried to come closer and take a better look at it.

Noticing this weakness in Fomka, Aunt Katya began to take advantage of it. She would go into the cage and put a scarf, jacket or something else on the floor. She pretended to be looking at something interesting, touched it, took it in her hands. Sometimes she had to do this for quite a long time, depending on Fomka’s mood. And sometimes he came in quickly. Then Aunt Katya deftly pulled the bait out from under his nose, disappeared from the cage and quickly slammed the door. But everything did not always go well. It also happened that Aunt Katya did not have time to pull out the bait, and then Fomka dealt with her in his own way. However, the smart Fomka soon figured out this trick. Every day it became more and more difficult to cope with the growing bear cub. And after he severely bit the attendant, it was decided to transfer him to the Island of Animals. We were sorry to part with Fomka, but there was nothing we could do - he had become too dangerous for the people on the site.

On the Island of Animals there was a free enclosure with a large, deep pond. There was a place to run, play, and swim. That's where Fomka was placed.

When Fomka found himself alone in a new place, he was terribly scared. He rushed around the pen, screamed pitifully and kept looking for somewhere to get out. But there was nowhere to get out. Then Fomka hid in a corner and refused to go out even for food. After the site, where he was among so many animals, he was very bored here alone. He wandered around the entire paddock and stopped playing completely. But Fomka was not bored for long. Soon they brought another bear cub, Masha, to the Zoo and let her go to Fomka. She was much smaller than Fomka, but he didn’t touch her. Snorting affectionately, he sniffed Masha, and they climbed into the water together. They swam and played all day, and by evening the cubs fell fast asleep, hugging each other with their paws.

Fomka calmed down and stopped being bored. He lived a very happy life with his friend, the polar bear cub Masha.

WINGED ALARM CLOCK

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