Kaminsky lessons of laughter. Funny story for children about school

I have a daughter Masha. When she was little, various funny stories happened to her. I wrote down some of them.

How Masha went to school

When the first graders sat down at their desks, the teacher asked:

- Who knows why you need to go to school?

Vitya raised his hand and said:

Natasha stood up and said:

- To learn to write.

“Well done, everyone answered correctly,” the teacher praised.

Then Masha stood up, took her briefcase and went to the door,

- Where are you going? - the teacher was surprised.

- And I don’t have to go to school. I can already read, write and count.

“That’s good,” said the teacher. “But it seems to me that you don’t know everything yet.” For example, what is twenty-five multiplied by five? How do you say "cat" in English? Where do penguins live?

- Is all this taught at school? - asked Masha.

- Certainly. And why the leaves are green, and why the stars glow, and much more. Well, are you staying?

“I’ll stay,” Masha said and sat down at her desk.

Missing letters

- Dad, what are you doing? - asked Masha.

- Yes, I’m writing a story. But I have a problem: the typewriter got damaged and started skipping letters.

“You know what,” said Masha, “you rest, and I’ll read your story and fill in the missing letters myself.”

“Okay,” I agreed, “go ahead.”

Ten minutes later Masha handed me a piece of paper. Here's what was there:

One grandmother had a fluffy cow, Murka, in her house.

Her grandmother loved her very much and treated her to a pair of hammers and turnips.

One day Murka decided to take a walk, breathe in some fresh jam and warm up in a frying pan. The cow came out onto the porch, lay down and purred with pleasure. Suddenly, a small carrot with a long tail jumped out from under the porch. Murka deftly caught it and sang.

It was fun in the yard: mischievous brooms chirped noisily, household irons swam in the puddles, and a handsome shepherd stood on the fence and crowed loudly.

Suddenly a big angry herring came out of the dog house. She saw Murka and began to bark angrily. Then a bug came out of the house and chased away the herring.

I read the story and laughed out loud:

- After all, you mixed everything up on purpose!

“I know,” said Masha. - But the story turned out to be funny!

“Well,” I said, “you’re right.”

I made a drawing for the story and sent it all to Funny Pictures.

And the story was published. It's called "Missing Letters".

About grandmother and about hippopotamus Borya

Once Masha told me:

- Dad, we are now going through the letter “B” at school. And Valentina Ivanovna asked you - can you write a story for us so that it contains more words starting with this letter?

“Okay,” I agreed, “but first, let’s remember the words starting with the letter “B” together.”

I took a pen and began to write down, and Masha began to dictate:

- Bananas, pancakes, bagels, a sandwich, a jar of jam, a sandwich...

“You already said sandwich,” I said.

“Let these be different sandwiches,” answered Masha, “one with cheese, and the other with sausage.”

“For some reason, you and I all have some kind of “edible” words,” I said, “even a jar - and that’s with jam!”

And we remembered a few more words, no longer “edible”: ballerina, grandmother, bank, bandit, gratitude...

“Aha,” I said, “now I understand what the story will be about!”

You will see this story below.

Valentina Ivanovna really liked him. True, some words in this story surprised her a little. She said that such words do not exist. And what do you think?

Once upon a time there lived a grandmother. She was a former ballerina. She loved watching Belevizor. Most of all, she liked cartoon films and the film “The Three Musketeers” with the participation of the artist Boyarsky.

The hippopotamus Borya lived with his grandmother. Grandmother spoiled Borya, sewed him a cap with a bow, taught him to play the balalaika and read him the magazine “Burzilka” before bed.

One morning on Monday, grandmother and Borya were woken up by an alarm clock. They had breakfast: grandma ate it. a bun and drank coffee and milk, and Borya ate pancakes, bananas, a cheese sandwich, a sausage sandwich and a can of lingonberry lamb.

Then grandma and Borya went to the bakery to buy a loaf of bread, bagels and bagels.

Suddenly, on Bolshoy Prospekt they saw people running. Running ahead was a bearded bandit who had just robbed a bank. He was wearing a beret, a sleeveless vest and sandals. In his hands he had a large briefcase full of money. Running after the bandit were: a pale bank director, an accountant and two brave police officers who fired encores into the air..

Then the bandit saw a standing bulldozer. There was no one in the cabin - the bulldozer driver had gone to the bathhouse. The bandit jumped into the cockpit and turned on the boat. The bulldozer rushed off, scaring the beshekhods and white bikers.

- Disgrace! - Grandma shouted and whispered something in Bora’s ear. The hippopotamus immediately rushed across the bulldozer and stopped it with its side. The bandit wanted to run, but Borya grabbed him by the thigh. The poor guy screamed: “I won’t do it again!”

Everything ended well. For the capture of a dangerous criminal, the grandmother and Borya were thanked and awarded a trip to Bulgaria, to the shores of the Black Bor.

Kaminsky Leonid: biography

And first, the world, or rather, the town of Kalinkovichi, Gomel Region, met the future writer Lenya, who was born on April 27, 1931. The boy's childhood coincided with wartime, the siege of Leningrad and evacuation. In 1954, Leonid Kaminsky, whose stories are read with pleasure by both the adult and the younger generation, entered the Civil Engineering Institute in Leningrad, where, along with the same lovers of humor, he drew the wall newspaper “Molniya” with caricatures of careless students and friendly caricatures of teachers. In 1966, he left behind him the Printing Institute in Moscow and the specialty “graphic artist”. As his thesis, Leonid presented a book of funny drawings, “On Big and Small.”

Work in the "Combat Pencil"

A good school for Leonid Kaminsky, a man who had a great charge of creative optimism, was the “Combat Pencil” community of poets and artists, where his interest in caricature led him. This was a group that had become famous since the war and the siege of Leningrad for its satirical posters, whose creations made people laugh at seemingly sad things in difficult situations. After all, everyone knows that laughter creates optimism, and optimists live longer. And “Combat Pencil” became for Kaminsky, who worked there for more than thirty years, a good platform that encourages people to perceive the world around them with ease and positivity.

During the same period, the author and part-time artist Leonid Kaminsky, whose biography is familiar to most schoolchildren, ran the humorous section “Cheerful Call” in the magazine “Koster”, was published on the pages of the “Literary Gazette” in the then popular “Club of 12 Chairs”, not only with caricatures, but also humorous works. The first published story was called "Graphomaniac".

Demand and love of readers

Next was work in the Leningrad youth magazine “Aurora” as the head of the humor department “SLON”. After some time, Leonid Kaminsky, whose stories gained great popularity among children all over the country, became a regular contributor to the magazine “Funny Pictures,” publishing funny pictures and funny works for preschool and primary school children in the genre of poetry, drawings, fairy tales and stories. The author also collaborated with children's magazines “Misha”, “Iskorka”, “Balamut”, “Bus”, “Kukumber”, “Buratino”.

Throughout his life, Leonid Kaminsky was involved in collecting school humorous folklore and publishing it, and often performed in schools and on the stage with a humorous program.

Leonid Kaminsky: a lesson in laughter

For many years, Leonid Davidovich traveled to schools, conducting “laughter lessons”; the children not only had fun at them, they laughed, sliding off their chairs onto the floor. For children, the writer was the best soulmate; thousands of young St. Petersburg residents knew him. Any book written by Leonid Kaminsky carries a huge positive message, is characterized by wit and ease of presentation and is interesting to both children and their parents. Children easily understand the actions of the main characters, which the author described quite accurately, as if he was eavesdropping and spying on their thoughts.

Love for children is an inexhaustible source for the creativity of Leonid Kaminsky

The writer always believed that it is necessary to develop self-irony and the ability to respond to jokes in a child if the state is interested in creating a society of optimists. Communicating with children, Kaminsky at any age was young at heart and always retained his childish mischief; From the children’s stories, he drew ideas for new books, the most famous of which is “Lessons in Laughter” (1986). Despite the fact that the author exposes and ridicules the bad habits of children, Kaminsky’s great love for young readers is felt through the lines.

Leonid Kaminsky - the most famous teacher of laughter

In addition to my own poems, stories and drawings on school topics, it includes many children's stories with the real names of the authors. The teacher of laughter was a collector of school folklore and its popularizer. For 25 years until his very last days, he led the “Cheerful Call” department in the children’s magazine “Koster”, which is where Kaminsky’s nickname came from - the Teacher of Laughter. The author believed that the humor department in a magazine for schoolchildren should be led by a teacher, or rather, a laughter teacher. The reaction of the readers was stunning: thousands of letters came from different parts with pearls of school humor. Also, Leonid Davidovich, who believed that a person who lacks a sense of humor is dangerous to society, was a regular author of “Murzilka”, “Funny Pictures” and other publications for children. His poems are included in the school literature curriculum.

The play “Lessons in Laughter” was staged on the stage of the Experiment Theater and ran for more than 10 years (from 1981 to 1992). In it, the role of a cheerful and witty teacher was played by Leonid Kaminsky. The author also wrote funny stories about school together with his friend, the poet Sergei Makhotin.

A funny story from the life of Leonid Kaminsky

Leonid Kaminsky, like every person, had his own funny story that happened with his poem “Announcement”. It was first published in 1983 - a time when notices were hung not on walls, but on drainpipes, in Funny Pictures. And so the published poem, which talked about the sale of various things and the corresponding picture in the form of an advertisement with a “fringe” cut at the bottom and a telephone number indicated for plausibility, made a splash in the magazine, the circulation of which was huge. People started calling Leningrad at the indicated phone number from all over the country, each asking about something different: some about the sale of talking parrots, others about imported umbrellas. A pensioner who had the same number in Moscow also got it. The latter, having figured out what was going on, complained about the magazine “Funny Pictures”. As a result, this person's phone number was changed. But there were also other cities with the same phone numbers...

Leonid Kaminsky, whose works are loved and read by the younger generation, was the only member of four creative unions in St. Petersburg: artists, journalists, writers, and theater workers. He died suddenly on November 23, 2005, before the next meeting with schoolchildren.

The writer and artist Leonid Davidovich Kaminsky (1931–2005) always talked about himself with genuine humor...

He “briefly” listed who he was in life: a preschooler, a schoolchild, a student at the Institute of Civil Engineering, a foreman, a senior foreman, an engineer, a chief engineer, an architect, a student at a printing institute, an advertising artist, an editor, a journalist, a cartoonist, a poster artist, and even an artist.

Leonid Davidovich drew “popular pictures” when he worked in the Leningrad satirical group “Combat Pencil”; he loved to come up with crossword puzzles, funny pictures, stories, and poems. At first, the heroes of his works were different uncles, for example, Uncle Vasya Denisyuk or Uncle Goga, who confused everything. Then appeared grandmother and hippopotamus Borya, Siamese cats, gramophones and talking parrots, as well as ordinary school students: Vitya Bryukvin, Anton Petukhov, Yura Serezhkin and Yura Shurupov.

This Bryukvin managed to copy a home essay on the topic “How I Relaxed in the Summer” from Daniel Defoe himself. Anton Petukhov was so daydreaming that he forgot how many letters “ts” he needed to write in the word “dreaming”. Yura Serezhkin did not learn the cases, but was not at a loss and offered to give him an A for resourcefulness. And Yura Shurupov had such a good time in the village that he managed to solve 34 problems from the textbook, and this is 2/5 of all the problems in order to retake the D in mathematics.

Kaminsky recalled how at the Experiment theater he played the teacher in the children's play “Lesson in Laughter,” and the roles of the students were played by two artists and the children sitting in the audience. Unlike a real school, in this lesson the students really wanted to go to the blackboard. One viewer wrote in the guest book: “I was at this performance with my dad. We fell down laughing several times. And I want to come again to fall!”

Kaminsky drew his first book for the Children's Literature publishing house together with the artist Mikhail Belomlinsky. It consisted of only pictures and was called “Funny Call”. Then Lev Davidovich illustrated the humorous books by Volt Suslov “Amenable Lozhkin” and Lyudmila Barbas “Who Needs an A?” And one day he wanted to make a book himself - all from beginning to end - both write and draw. The publishing house agreed, and the book “A Lesson in Laughter” was published in 1986.

Leonid Kaminsky collaborated with various children's magazines: at Iskorka he drew covers and illustrations for stories, did interviews with interesting people, for example, with artists Evgeny Lebedev and Mikhail Boyarsky, at Kostya he ran the humor department "Veselyi Zvon" and received a huge amount from the children number of letters. The most letters came to the competition “And everyone laughed!” This is how a hobby appeared - collecting funny phrases that appear in school notebooks on literature and the Russian language.

Here are a few examples from the writer's collection:

“Dubrovsky worked for Troekurov as a Frenchman.”

“Pechorin fired, and Grushnitsky disappeared like smoke.”

“Two horses rode into the yard - these were the sons of Taras Bulba.”

“Khlestakov stayed at a hotel called “Tavern.”

“Chichikov bought their souls from landowners.”

“The deaf-mute Gerasim did not like gossip and spoke only the truth.”

"Robinson Crusoe wrote a very good book, The Life and Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe."

“My friend is broad in the stomach.”

“His head was in the form of an oval ball with ears.”

“His left cheek smiled cheerfully.”

“You need to go to the doctor regularly and have your teeth checked.”

“The boy rolled down the slide like cheese in butter.”

“The cat came to live with us when she was still a puppy.”

“Our cat has acquired three puppies.”

“My favorite animal is the bullfinch.”

“I have a parrot with a talking nose.”

“Having stopped, the train slowed down.”

“Winter in the tundra lasts more than a year.”

“Spring has come: everything has turned green and crowed.”

“Our country is washed from the south by three seas: the Black, the Caspian and the Aivazov.”

The letters that Kaminsky received contained many different wishes. One reader wished him a Happy New Year and added:

I also wish you to gain a kilogram!

Of course, she had never seen Leonid Davidovich, otherwise she would have realized that this was not worth wanting at all.

Lev Kaminsky was very lucky: thanks to his profession, he often heard children's laughter and smiles. And this is very important! After all, readers and viewers will grow up to be kind and cheerful people.

The Amazing Adventures of Viti Bryukvin

Hello, Lyudmila Arkadyevna, I am Vitya Bryukvin’s dad. Did you call me?

Called. Sit down please!

Something happened? - Papa Bryukvin asked in fear.

No, it's okay. Read this, please.

The teacher took a notebook from her briefcase, opened it and placed it in front of Vita’s dad.

This is your son’s essay: “How I rested in the summer.”

And what? - Dad was surprised. - It seems neat, almost without marks...

No, you read it. From here.

- “...Nothing can express the confusion that took possession of me when I plunged into the water. I'm a good swimmer, but I couldn't get to the surface right away and almost suffocated. Only when the wave that had picked me up, having carried a fair distance towards the shore, broke and flowed away, leaving me almost on land, half-dead from the water that I had swallowed, did I take a breath and come to my senses... The last wave almost turned out to be fatal for me, having picked up, he carried me out, or rather threw me onto the rock with such force that I fainted and found myself completely helpless, and if the sea had picked me up again, I would have inevitably drowned..."

Papa Bryukwin turned pale.

Horrible! He didn't tell me anything. Did this really happen in the pioneer camp?

Don’t worry,” said Lyudmila Arkadyevna, “read on.” Here.

- “...Comforted by thoughts of safe deliverance from mortal danger, I began to look around to find out where I ended up. My joyful mood suddenly fell: I realized that although I was saved, I was not spared from further horrors and troubles. There was no dry thread left on me, I had nothing to eat, I didn’t even have water to bolster my strength...”

What is this? - Dad Bryukvin asked dumbfounded.

Calm down, please,” said the teacher. “This all didn’t happen to him.” He wrote everything off.

Who? At Karnaukhova's?

No, not hers. Daniel Defoe's.

Who? You want to say...

Yes. From the book “The Life and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.”

Well, I’ll show him “amazing adventures”!

Dad entered the apartment, took off his coat and asked loudly:

Where is Victor?

“Hush,” said the mother, “the child is studying!”

Vitya was actually sitting at the table and diligently writing something, constantly looking into the open book. Dad took the notebook from him and read:

“...The horses ran together. But the wind became stronger hour by hour. The cloud turned into a white cloud. It began to snow lightly and suddenly fell in flakes. The wind howled: it became a blizzard..."

So,” dad asked quietly, “are you writing an essay?”

“Yeah,” Vitya answered. “They asked by Thursday.” On the topic: “How I spent my winter holidays.”

Well done,” said dad. “So it’s an essay.” With the help of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. By Thursday... By the way,” Dad added menacingly, “Greetings to you from Friday.” And from Robinson Crusoe!

What's wrong with Kamu

On a frosty December morning, Anton Petukhov headed to school. On the corner, two workers were changing the sign of a dairy store. An old sign with big blue letters that said "MILK" sat on the ground. And instead of it, the workers strengthened another. Petukhov read with surprise: “MALAKO.”

Petukhov went further. At the tram stop, he noticed a freshly painted telephone booth. A beautiful new “TILIPHON” sign was installed on top. And lower down, on a white piece of cardboard, it was handwritten: “ASTAROZHNA, AKRASHYNO!”

Anton Petukhov was even more surprised. Something was wrong! For some reason they started changing signs in the city! Here, above the circus building, a huge letter “Y” hangs on a crane - it is installed instead of the letter “I”. It turns out “CIRCUM”. Here at the crossroads they put up white balloons with the inscription: “PATZEMONY PIRICHOT.” Here is a gaggle of kids watching as an uncle in a fur hat screws a glass sign to the wall: “CHILDREN’S SAT.”

What's happened?

...Anton Petukhov made it to school just in time for the first bell. Lyudmila Arkadyevna entered the class with a large stack of notebooks. She said hello and said:

Well! I must tell you that some students are very lucky. As you have probably already heard, from today a new spelling is being introduced in the Russian language - “as it is heard, so is it written.” I checked your essays based on this rule. And some students showed simply brilliant results! For example, Petukhov. For the first time I gave him an A - not a single mistake! Well done!

Petukhov, red with embarrassment, took his notebook, on the cover of which it was written “Titrate in Russian and Anton Pitukhov’s language,” and sat down. The guys congratulated him. His desk neighbor, Yura Serezhkin, joyfully pushed him in the side. Then again and again...

“Come on,” Petukhov waved it off.

They kept pushing him.

Found time to sleep! - the editor of the wall newspaper, Vitya Bryukvin, shouted in Anton’s ear. - New Year's Eve is just around the corner, and our newspaper is not ready yet! Go ahead, write the title: “Who dreams of what on New Year’s Eve.”

Anton rubbed his eyes, put colored markers in front of him and thought.

Vit, and Vit,” he turned to Bryukvin, “don’t you remember how many “C” are in the word “DREAMING” - two or one?..

Cases of Yura Serezhkin

- Third desk! Petukhov and Seryozhkin! Sorry for interrupting your fascinating conversation, but we need to continue with the lesson. Serezhkin, come to the board! Let's imagine that you are a writer. Write us a short story of two or three sentences and write it on the board. Did you write it? Fine. Let's see what you got.

The teacher went to the board and read:

“Dad and mom scolded Vova for his bad behavior. Vova was silent guiltily, and then promised to improve.”

- Wonderful. The story seems to be taken straight from life. But now we are more interested in grammar. Please underline all the nouns in your story. Ready? Now, Yura, determine in which cases these nouns are found. Did you understand the task, Serezhkin?

- Got it, Lyudmila Arkadyevna.

- Then begin.

- "Father and mother". Who what? Parents. This means the case is GENTIVE. Scolded someone, what? Vova. "Vova" is a name. This means the case is nominative. Scolded for what? For bad behavior. Apparently he did something. Case – CREATIVE. Next – how was Vova silent? Guilty. This means that here “Vova” has the ACCUSATIVE case. Well, the “promise” is, of course, in the DATIVE, since Vova gave it. That's it...

– Yes, the analysis turned out to be original! Bring the diary, Serezhkin! I wonder what mark you would suggest you set for yourself?

-Which one? Of course, an A!

- So, an A? By the way, in what case did you name this word – “five”?

- IN THE PREPOSITIONAL.

- In the prepositional form? Why?

- Well, of course! After all, I suggested it myself!..

Letter

Hello, friend Seryoga! Yura Shurupov is writing to you. As I wrote to you before, I am relaxing with my grandmother in the village. It is nice here. Birds chirp, cows moo, roosters crow. The village is located near the station, past which passenger and freight trains pass. By the way, the distance a passenger train travels in 3 hours, a freight train travels in 5 hours. Now imagine that the trains set off simultaneously towards each other, and by the time they met, the distance traveled by the passenger train turned out to be 180 kilometers. The question is: how far did the freight train travel? But that’s just me, by the way.

My grandmother works in the collective farm garden. What doesn't grow here! Recently, 176 kilograms of carrots were harvested from the garden, 468 kilograms more cabbage than carrots, and even 750 kilograms more potatoes than carrots and cabbage combined. Can you imagine how many vegetables we collected!

You ask in the letter how deep the river is and whether there are berries in the forest. I can’t answer you, because I don’t have time to swim or go to the forest. You know that according to my mother, I have a couple in my quarters, and if I correct it, my father promised to give me a bike for my birthday. So I came to my senses. I have already solved 34 problems from the textbook, which is 2/5 of all problems, or 40%. As you can see, Seryoga, I have no time for rest! Well, it’s okay, I’ll rest in September!

That's all. How are you doing? How do you rest? Write.

There is nothing more to write. I'll go take this letter to the post office. The post office is located 5 kilometers from our house. If I walk at a speed of 3 kilometers per hour, I will reach the post office in 100 minutes.

Your friend Yura Shurupov.

Literature

Mikhail Yasnov, Genrikh Tumarinson, Nikolai Kharlampiev, Ilya Butman, Oleg Serdobolsky about Leonid Kaminsky on the website: http://www.kykymber.ru/authors.php?author=130

In this article we will talk about Leonid Kaminsky - a journalist, artist, writer and literary figure. The talent of this wonderful person was revealed in the field of children's creativity. The books written by the author are interesting, funny and witty. “Teacher of laughter”, that’s what they called Leonid Davydovich.

Mashenka, or how it all began

Biography of the writer

Leonid Kaminsky was born on April 27, 1931, in Kalinkovichi, Gomel region, in Belarus. The writer's childhood took place during the war and post-war years. In 1954 he graduated from the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute. Later, an important moment occurs in the biography of Leonid Kaminsky: in 1966 he graduated from the Moscow Printing Institute with a degree in graphic artist. Kaminsky was a member of the creative unions of the city of St. Petersburg: journalists, artists, writers and theater workers. Since 1966, he was a regular contributor to the magazine “Funny Pictures”, collaborated with many children's magazines, such as “Pinocchio”, “Balamut”, “Bus”, “Murzilka”, “Iskorka” and others. Since 1979, he has been the editor-compiler of the humor department of the Koster magazine. From 1981 to 1992, at the Experiment Theater, he took part in the original variety show for preschool and primary school children, “Lesson of Laughter,” where he played the role of the Laughter Teacher. In 1998, he was awarded the “Golden Ostap” statuette at the international humor festival in the “Humor for Children” category.

Laughter teacher

A person who lacks a sense of humor is socially dangerous, this is exactly what Leonid Davydovich believed. For twenty-five years he collected school folklore. The works of Leonid Kaminsky for children are included in the school literature anthology. To create optimism in society, first of all, it is necessary to cultivate self-irony in the younger generation, the ability to respond to jokes and, most importantly, to appreciate healthy humor - this was Kaminsky’s main task, and this is where he found his calling. He worked at the magazine “Combat Pencil” for more than thirty years, giving people sparks of an easy and positive attitude towards the world. Leonid Davydovich’s track record is surprising and at the same time impressive, and you understand that in front of you is truly one of the few “bright” people who you want to say “thank you” for the positive charge that prolongs our lives. Leonid Kaminsky's books are interesting for both adults and children; there is no more useful pastime in the family circle than reading his works, which describe funny incidents from the lives of schoolchildren with incredible ease and accuracy. And, despite the fact that the author loves to make fun of the bad behavior of children, through the lines of each work there emanates great love for his young readers. Leonid Kaminsky's stories for children were so popular and had a resounding success that letters with jokes and funny stories came to him from all over the Soviet Union.

The history of the poem “Announcement”

One funny story happened in the life of Leonid Kaminsky. In 1983, the magazine “Veselye Kartinki” published the poem “Announcement”, which, for greater plausibility, was framed as a real advertisement “with fringe” of the specified telephone number. This is exactly what the advertisements looked like, which were glued to water pipes and the walls of houses, and the funniest thing is that people started calling the number indicated in the poem. Some were jokingly and some were seriously interested in talking parrots and imported umbrellas. The pensioner, whose apartment was registered under this number, was forced to change his phone number. And the grumpy pensioner wrote a complaint to the magazine “Funny Pictures”. Here is a funny story that happened in real life with Leonid Davydovich.

An instructive story about first-graders

Leonid Kaminsky's story “How Masha went to school” was dedicated to his daughter Maria. The story was funny, easy to read, and at the same time instructive. At first glance, the story is straightforward and simple: first-grader Masha decided that since she can read and count, she no longer needs to go to school. The teacher managed to interest the little girl with examples from the world around us that were easy for a child to understand. “Why are the leaves green, why do the stars shine, and how do you say cat in English?” So simple, at first glance, and so wisely, without causing pain to the baby, without showing her her superiority, she aroused her curiosity. A caring attitude, fueled by great love for small children, is the moral of this story. “I’ll stay,” Masha said and sat down at her desk again. Funny, smart, but still so small, the girl received her first lesson, the significance of which was so significant for her that, due to her small age, she did not fully realize it. This story will first of all be instructive, in the good sense of the word, for many teachers and parents.

An extraordinary book, or a collection of quotes from school essays

In 2008, an extraordinary book, “The History of the Russian State in Excerpts from School Essays,” was published in St. Petersburg; the author of this fascinating children’s masterpiece has been collecting all kinds of mistakes from students for years. Leonid Kaminsky wanted to publish this book during his lifetime, but did not have time. This was, no, why, it is, Leonid Davydovich’s most wonderful collection of excerpts from school essays, a real confusion of words, but in childhood it is impossible without confusion. So, let's give some examples of them. “When did Peter I reign? - From 40 to 46 paragraphs.” Or here’s one of my favorites: “I recognized Santa Claus by his sneakers, he was our physical education teacher.” And finally, this quote: “The revolutionaries did not tremble for their own skin. They trembled for the skin of others.” “Katerina, in order to avoid Kabanikha’s tyranny, decided to drown herself, because she wanted to remain free all her life.” The drawings that Leonid Davydovich drew for his stories are similar to children’s, just as full of naivety and “ineptitude”; Kaminsky even wrote the signatures under them “by hand”, like in school notebooks.

Words of gratitude are the best reward for a writer

Reading the reviews with kind and sincere words of gratitude, I would like to add the following: the works of Leonid Kaminsky are interesting for children of primary and secondary school, since it is at this age that they are curious to read about the events and incidents that happened to their peers. Especially if they are written with a certain amount of humor. It is also worth considering the fact that today the workload at school for children is significant, and the works of Leonid Kaminsky are excellent for the emotional release of a student, there are no complaints about poor performance, all stories are from real life, written in easy-to-understand language.

School theater, or a C for a tiger

A type of stage creativity is school theater. How many skits were staged based on the works of Leonid Davydovich! How much kindness, humor and laughter was given from the stages of school theaters. This children's creative workshop teaches you to appreciate beauty and avoid spiritual emptiness. Kaminsky's works are varied and interesting. An example is Leonid Davydovich’s story “Cross for a Tiger,” where a father and son play words that start with the letter “T” and are in this room. TV, bedside table, telephone and...tiger.

Children's resourcefulness and spontaneity, and adult observation were combined in this story, which can, and was, staged on the stages of school theaters. All of Kaminsky’s work is so “ours” and dear, understandable and funny, kind and relaxing.

Conclusion

In conclusion, summing up what has been said, I would like to note the fact that the most important task that Leonid Kaminsky set for himself was completed brilliantly. What kind of task is this? As Leonid Davydovich himself said, the most important thing is to teach children... to laugh. Making children laugh is a pleasant thing; it is not only work, but also pleasure. Leonid Kaminsky remains in memory as a sincere person, a great friend of children, the owner of an amazing charge of humor and creative optimism. Leonid Davydovich died in 2005 on November 23 in St. Petersburg at the age of 75.

Lena sat at the table and did her homework. It was getting dark, but from the snow that lay in drifts in the yard, it was still light in the room.

In front of Lena lay an open notebook, in which only two phrases were written:

How I help my mother.

“But it’s true,” Lena thought dreamily, “it would be good if summer didn’t end!.. Sunbathe yourself, swim, and no essays for you!”

She read the headline again: How I Help Mom. “How can I help? And when to help here, if they ask so much for the house!”

The light came on in the room: my mother entered.

- Sit, sit, I won’t bother you, I’ll just tidy up the room a little. “She began wiping the bookshelves with a rag.

Lena began to write:

“I help my mother with the housework. I clean the apartment, wipe the dust off the furniture with a rag.”

- Why did you throw your clothes all over the room? - Mom asked.

The question was, of course, rhetorical, because my mother did not expect an answer. She began putting things in the closet.

“I’m putting things in their places,” Lena wrote.

“By the way, your apron needs to be washed,” mom continued talking to herself.

“Washing clothes,” Lena wrote, then thought and added: “And ironing.”

“Mom, a button on my dress came off,” Lena reminded and wrote: “I sew buttons on if necessary.”

Mom sewed on a button, then went out to the kitchen and returned with a bucket and mop.

Pushing the chairs aside, she began to wipe the floor.

“Come on, raise your legs,” said mom, deftly wielding a rag.

- Mom, you're bothering me! - Lena grumbled and, without lowering her feet, wrote: “Washing the floors.”

There was something burning coming from the kitchen.

- Oh, I have potatoes on the stove! - Mom shouted and rushed to the kitchen.

“I’m peeling potatoes and cooking dinner,” Lena wrote.

- Lena, have dinner! - Mom called from the kitchen.

- Now! — Lena leaned back in her chair and stretched.

A bell rang in the hallway.

- Lena, this is for you! - Mom shouted.

She entered the room, ruddy from the frost.

Olya, Lena's classmate.

- I do not for a long time. Mom sent for bread, and I decided to go to you on the way.

Lena took a pen and wrote: “I’m going to the store for bread and other products.”

- Are you writing an essay? - Olya asked. - Let me see.

Olya looked at the notebook and burst into tears:

- Wow! Yes, this is not true! You made it all up!

- Who said you can’t compose? - Lena was offended. “That’s why it’s called so-chi-ne-nie!”