First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for June

Tom, the Piper's Son



The Fly and the Humble Bee



Oranges and Lemons



Three Blind Mice

The Land of Story-Books

At evening when the lamp is lit,

Around the fire my parents sit;

They sit at home and talk and sing,

And do not play at anything.


Now, with my little gun, I crawl

All in the dark along the wall,

And follow round the forest track

Away behind the sofa back.


There, in the night, where none can spy,

All in my hunter's camp I lie,

And play at books that I have read

Till it is time to go to bed.


These are the hills, these are the woods,

These are my starry solitudes;

And there the river by whose brink

The roaring lions come to drink.


I see the others far away

As if in firelit camp they lay,

And I, like to an Indian scout,

Around their party prowled about.


So when my nurse comes in for me,

Home I return across the sea,

And go to bed with backward looks

At my dear land of Story-Books.

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Week 23 The Barbary Dragon from The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting Daniel Boone's Daughter and Her Friends from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston Beans from Seed-Babies by Margaret Warner Morley Fundevogel from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Around the Fire by Lisa M. Ripperton Some More about Greece from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge The Tale of the Leprechaun from The Irish Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins A Lost Brother Found from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Rosy Posy by Laura E. Richards 		Missing by A. A. Milne
A Pretty Game, Anonymous 		The Flowers by Robert Louis Stevenson I Love Little Pussy by Jane Taylor Good Night! by Victor Hugo The Days Are Clear by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Old Lion and the Fox

An old Lion, whose teeth and claws were so worn that it was not so easy for him to get food as in his younger days, pretended that he was sick. He took care to let all his neighbors know about it, and then lay down in his cave to wait for visitors. And when they came to offer him their sympathy, he ate them up one by one.

The Fox came too, but he was very cautious about it. Standing at a safe distance from the cave, he inquired politely after the Lion's health. The Lion replied that he was very ill indeed, and asked the Fox to step in for a moment. But Master Fox very wisely stayed outside, thanking the Lion very kindly for the invitation.

"I should be glad to do as you ask," he added, "but I have noticed that there are many foot prints leading into your cave and none coming out. Pray tell me, how do your visitors find their way out again?"

Take warning from the misfortunes of others.


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