First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for May

How Doth the Little Crocodile

How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws! 

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Week 25

Smells from The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

Stories about Jefferson from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston

Peanuts from Seed-Babies by Margaret Warner Morley

The Hut in the Forest from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Around the Fire by Lisa M. Ripperton

The Battle of Marathon from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge

The Twins Get Home from The Irish Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

The Beautiful Baby Who Was Found in a River from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

White Sheep, Anonymous

Hoppity by A. A. Milne

Who Stole the Bird's Nest? by Lydia Maria Child

My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson

Summer by Christina Georgina Rossetti

The House That Jack Built, Anonymous

King and Queen 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.