First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for February

All But Blind

All but blind
In his chambered hole
Gropes for worms
The four-clawed Mole.

All but blind
In the evening sky
The hooded Bat
Twirls softly by.

All but blind
In the burning day
The Barn-Owl blunders
On her way.

And blind as are
These three to me,
So blind to someone
I must be.

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Week 21

Medicine and Magic from The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

Clark and His Men from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston

The Lucky Mink from Among the Pond People by Clara Dillingham Pierson

The Golden Goose from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Around the Fire by Lisa M. Ripperton

The Rise of Carthage from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge

Grannie Malone and the Twins from The Irish Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

From the Prison to the Palace from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

A Good Boy by Robert Louis Stevenson

At the Zoo by A. A. Milne

Minnie and Mattie by Christina Georgina Rossetti

Pirate Story by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Shepherd by William Blake

Over in the Meadow by Olive A. Wadsworth

If All Were Rain by Christina Georgina Rossetti

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Two Goats

Two Goats, frisking gayly on the rocky steeps of a mountain valley, chanced to meet, one on each side of a deep chasm through which poured a mighty mountain torrent. The trunk of a fallen tree formed the only means of crossing the chasm, and on this not even two squirrels could have passed each other in safety. The narrow path would have made the bravest tremble. Not so our Goats. Their pride would not permit either to stand aside for the other.

One set her foot on the log. The other did likewise. In the middle they met horn to horn. Neither would give way, and so they both fell, to be swept away by the roaring torrent below.

It is better to yield than to come to misfortune through stubbornness.