First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for November

The Little Turtle

There was a little turtle.
He lived in a box.
He swam in a puddle.
He climbed on the rocks.

He snapped at a mosquito.
He snapped at a flea.
He snapped at a minnow.
And he snapped at me.

He caught the mosquito.
He caught the flea.
He caught the minnow.
But he didn't catch me. 

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Week 12

Animal Language from The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

John Stark and the Indians from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston

The Tadpole Who Wanted To Be Grown-Up from Among the Pond People by Clara Dillingham Pierson

The Seven Ravens from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Up the Stairs by Lisa M. Ripperton

Hiram, King of Tyre from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge

New Friends and Old (Part 2 of 2) from The Swiss Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

The Boy Who Became an Archer from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Market Square by A. A. Milne

Spring's Waking by Isabel Eccelstone Mackay

My Bed Is a Boat by Robert Louis Stevenson

Sweet and Low by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale

Daffadowndilly by Christina Georgina Rossetti

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Crow and the Pitcher

In a spell of dry weather, when the Birds could find very little to drink, a thirsty Crow found a pitcher with a little water in it. But the pitcher was high and had a narrow neck, and no matter how he tried, the Crow could not reach the water. The poor thing felt as if he must die of thirst.

Then an idea came to him. Picking up some small pebbles, he dropped them into the pitcher one by one. With each pebble the water rose a little higher until at last it was near enough so he could drink.

In a pinch a good use of our wits may help us out.