First Grade Read Aloud Banquet



Songs for November

Aiken Drum



King Cole



The Old Man in Leather



Ye Fairy Ship






Time To Rise

A birdie with a yellow bill

Hopped upon my window sill,

Cocked his shining eye and said:

"Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head!"


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Week 13 More Money Troubles from The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting A Great Good Man from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston The Runaway Water Spiders from Among the Pond People by Clara Dillingham Pierson Tom Tit Tot from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Around the Fire by Lisa M. Ripperton King Solomon's Fleet from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge Introduction to the Twins and Their Home from The Filipino Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins
Old Bobtail's Temper from The Filipino Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins
How an Angel's Voice Saved a Boy's Life from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Singing by Robert Louis Stevenson
Daffodowndilly by A. A. Milne
The Bow That Bridges Heaven by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The Sun Travels by Robert Louis Stevenson The Caterpillar, Anonymous
Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Linnets by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Poems  by Edward Lear

A Was Once an Apple Pie

A was once an apple-pie,

Pidy,

Widy,

Tidy,

Pidy,

Nice insidy,

Apple-pie!


B was once a little bear,

Beary,

Wary,

Hairy,

Beary,

Taky cary,

Little bear!


C was once a little cake,

Caky,

Baky,

Maky,

Caky,

Taky caky,

Little cake!


D was once a little doll,

Dolly,

Molly,

Polly,

Nolly,

Nursy dolly,

Little doll!


E was once a little eel,

Eely,

Weely,

Peely,

Eely,

Twirly, tweely,

Little eel!


F was once a little fish,

Fishy,

Wishy,

Squishy,

Fishy,

In a dishy,

Little fish!


G was once a little goose,

Goosy,

Moosy,

Boosey,

Goosey,

Waddly-woosy,

Little goose!


H was once a little hen,

Henny,

Chenny,

Tenny,

Henny.

Eggsy-any,

Little hen?


I was once a bottle of ink

Inky,

Dinky,

Thinky,

Inky,

Blacky minky,

Bottle of ink!


J was once a jar of jam,

Jammy,

Mammy,

Clammy,

Jammy,

Sweety, swammy,

Jar of jam!


K was once a little kite,

Kity,

Whity,

Flighty,

Kity,

Out of sighty,

Little kite!


L was once a little lark,

Larky,

Marky,

Harky,

Larky,

In the parky,

Little lark!


M was once a little mouse,

Mousy,

Bousy,

Sousy,

Mousy,

In the housy,

Little mouse!


N was once a little needle,

Needly,

Tweedly,

Threedly,

Needly,

Wisky, wheedly,

Little needle!


O was once a little owl,

Owly,

Prowly,

Howly,

Owly,

Browny fowly,

Little owl!


P was once a little pump,

Pumpy,

Slumpy,

Flumpy,

Pumpy,

Dumpy, thumpy,

Little pump!


Q was once a little quail,

Quaily,

Faily,

Daily,

Quaily,

Stumpy-taily,

Little quail!


R was once a little rose,

Rosy,

Posy,

Nosy,

Rosy,

Blows-y, grows-y,

Little rose!


S was once a little shrimp,

Shrimpy,

Nimpy,

Flimpy,

Shrimpy.

Jumpy, jimpy,

Little shrimp!


Twas once a little thrush,

Thrushy,

Hushy,

Bushy,

Thrushy,

Flitty, flushy,

Little thrush!


U was once a little urn,

Urny,

Burny,

Turny,

Urny,

Bubbly, burny,

Little urn!


V was once a little vine,

Viny,

Winy,

Twiny,

Viny,

Twisty-twiny,

Little vine!


Wwas once a whale,

Whaly,

Scaly,

Shaly,

Whaly,

Tumbly-taily,

Mighty whale!


X was once a great king Xerxes,

Xerxy,

Perxy,

Turxy,

Xerxy,

Linxy, lurxy,

Great King Xerxes!


Y was once a little yew,

Yewdy,

Fewdy,

Crudy,

Yewdy,

Growdy, grewdy,

Little yew!


Z was once a piece of zinc,

Tinky,

Winky,

Blinky,

Tinky,

Tinkly minky,

Piece of zinc!