First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for January

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 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

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Ants and the Grasshopper

One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.

"What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?"

"I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."

The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.

"Making music, were you?" they cried. "Very well; now dance!" And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.

There's a time for work and a time for play.