To understand what counters are, you need to know their history. The roots of the counters go back to ancient times. Then there were no washing machines, combines, modern threshers and so on. The work was hard. Everything was done with hands and primitive tools. Moreover, some works were even dangerous to health and life. But to do the work was necessary. Who will do this? Volunteers can not be found. Therefore, they began to come up with a way to distribute the work honestly, without offending the rest. Remarkable oral folklore - counters here found their birth 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 protect themselves from misfortune and misfortune. Fear of the unknown gave rise to secret and incomprehensible words in the counters. People came to the conclusion that nature did both good and evil to people. They imagined that animals were able to understand people's speech. Belief in the power of words transformed the reader into a real spell.
Time passed, the laws of nature became clear, the tools were improved, and the reader acquired a harmless, even funny character. They are loved by children and used before games, or simply pronounced, because they liked the readers.
The value of counters
Counting is a rhymed verse, composed of fictional harmonies and words, while the exact rhythm stands out, which they try to adhere to.
With the help of counters, roles for a wide variety of games are fairly and clearly distributed among children. It is also used to put the turn to start a new exciting fun. So there is an input to a new game.
Functions of counters
Counting is a way to form irreplaceable, good human sides - justice, a sense of camaraderie, honesty.
Some people are of the opinion that oral folklore - counters, absolutely no one needs, like something superfluous in the bright head of the baby. I would like to challenge this fact. What benefits do counters bring?
Role distribution
Group games can not do without a reading room. For example, hide and seek. Who will hide and who will seek will be determined by the reader. So that there are no questions of this nature, "Why am I looking, not him?" The reader helps no offense to distribute roles in the game. Surrendering to the will of chance, the driver is elected not by appearance, clothing or friendship, but honestly. It is unlikely that anyone will have a desire to object to the drawn lot. For a while, the weak can become a leader, feel strong, and vice versa. If a child knows a lot of counters, he will most likely become an entertainer of different games. Such guys are very popular, their fellow tribesmen are drawn to them.
The development of rhythm, counting, speech and more
For the formation of speech counters - just a godsend. With frequent pronouncing thereof, the child's speech becomes cleaner, articulation improves. Some counters use words that are not easy to pronounce. Their complete absence in other languages is noted.
Folk readers for children are used not only in group games, but also when an adult and a child are scheduled to play. For instance:
Clouds, clouds, clouds, clouds,
The horse is riding big, powerful.
He rides through the clouds
Who does not believe, get out!
The development of rhythm is a wonderful side of one of the faces of the reader. You can jump under it, when more often, and when less often, depending on pauses. It all depends on the content of the reader. Without a sense of rhythm, there is nothing to do in dance and music.
The ability to count is a good ability. Before the game, while listening to the reader with the score, the child remembers it, and if you like the words, with frequent repetition, the score, at least up to ten, will be learned without much of your zeal. Children learn elementary arithmetic. Rhythmic and unpretentious rhyming rhyme, gives an explanation in a humorous form of the basics of mathematical rules.
To learn your favorite counting room, you need to carefully concentrate and try to remember what was heard. Thus, counters roam during the game from one child to another. If the child did not remember some words, then to the best of her imagination and ingenuity, she will come up with, insert her words into the reading room and change the ending. The conclusion begs itself - the readers develop imagination, humor, good imagination, and make it possible to compose poetry yourself. Some of them are passed down from generation to generation.
Next, find out what are the counters. There are several types.
- Counters – draws.
- Abstruse counters.
- Counters are numerals.
- Counters-replacements.
Counting is a good prelude to an exciting game. Kids like comrades who have counters in their heads a whole cart.
Counters-draw
This type of counters is striking in its diversity and colorfulness. The draws have a good consonance. They help children to split into teams. Each of the participants tries to encrypt his name, selects a pair, goes to the "womb" (strong and dexterous team players). It is they who make the selection of members of their team, based on some proposal. A choice is made among animals or objects, plants or fairy-tale characters.
The black horse or the remote Cossack?
A fox in flowers or a bear in pants?
Uncle Fedya or a polar bear?
The name of the counting draws develops a poetic rumor and has it to compose a masterpiece on its own, rhyming words. You can try to make a complete absurdity, abracadabra. It is not forbidden to create something new from the ordinary, which indicates the level of aesthetic development and intellectual too.
Abstruse Counters
This type of reader is completely or partially consisting of zaumi. Here there are sound combinations that absolutely have no meaning. Kids learn the most difficult text with great pleasure. And this process takes place effortlessly, easily and simply. Moreover, they themselves can come up with something similar, and even better. Style can be safely attributed to children's folklore. Some say that these poems are scraps of spells. Others think that these are the remaining fragments of prayer texts in the language of time immemorial. A child’s mind is attributed to a completely different speech, some mysticism and mystery are seen in it. One such example is Zaumi:
Charber Farber, Jagber Fook,
Am dam eki – beki tuk,
Buinoseki arin uv
Ebit Debit, Bitken Buff.
We move on, the next type of counters is directly related to numbers. The benefits of such poems are simply colossal.
Counters
Or counters with numbers. It is based on an account. It contains countable words and numeral equivalents. We will analyze the next counting in more detail. It looks like this:
"Asi, dweezi, trizi, rizi,
Heel, lata, fur coat, chop,
Dubi, the cross "
It seems sheer nonsense, but people of bygone days did not think so. A little secret is hidden in it.
The history of counters
The most shabby counters include the beliefs of time immemorial. There was an opinion that you can’t give aloud to the account: guests, objects. It was forbidden to recount the catch or catch, so that the spirits of the forest or reservoir did not become indignant at the hunter. But what to do? It was then that the coded words came up: “single” - one, “two” - two. In the end, the cross for good reason is ten. Many centuries ago, every ten was marked with nicks on a separate small board. There is also the saying "cut your nose." Its roots go exactly here. It can be stated that they are an ancient cipher that reached us. Thanks, perhaps, to children's games. Let's move on to the next view.
Replacers
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, infect and infect children. An important event comes to the end - the preparation and organization of the game.
conclusions
Time passes, children grow, but they remember their favorite rhymes well and exchange them in kindergartens and schools. Growing up, the child knows the counters more, they become harder and longer. At breaks you can hear a whole bunch of counters of various kinds. School counters broaden their horizons much more. The child learns a lot of interesting and new information. There is an accumulation of material for adulthood. For example, acquaintance with different types of animals:
You are a hamster.
And you are a ferret.
You are a bunny, a jump and a jump.
You are a fox.
You are a marten.
You are a skilled beaver.
You are a hunter ...
Oh, trouble!
Run away to where!
Combining everything in a short list, it should be noted the benefits of counting.
- They teach children the rules of the game and learn to stick to them. The driver of the game is chosen fairly in front of everyone, without any privileges.
- The memory is improved and the sense of rhythm is improved.
- I especially wanted to note the organization and discipline of children with the help of readers. The child is much more willingly involved in the next game.
Counting is not only a children's activity! An adult would also like to know a few counters or, as an option, compose them. This is a great help for the child to show curiosity. Situations are taken from ordinary life: "I look at how three insects trample bows on Mashka." With the help of such ventures, new facets and opportunities are developing.
There is no limit to children's imagination, to try to look at the world through the eyes of a child in the forces of everyone, the main thing is to want. Then the world will shine with bright colors.