First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for November

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 32

The Rescue of the Tin Woodman from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

The Star-Spangled Banner from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston

The Bay Colt Learns to Mind from Among the Farmyard People by Clara Dillingham Pierson

The Story of Epaminodas and His Auntie from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Around the Fire by Lisa M. Ripperton

The Death of Socrates from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge

What They Saw from The Irish Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

The Mountain That Smoked and Words That Were Spoken from It from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

A Verse by George MacDonald

Knights and Ladies by A. A. Milne

I Saw a Ship by Kate Greenaway

Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson

Rushes by Christina Georgina Rossetti

How Doth the Little Busy Bee by Isaac Watts

A House of Cards by Christina Georgina Rossetti

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Crow and the Pitcher

In a spell of dry weather, when the Birds could find very little to drink, a thirsty Crow found a pitcher with a little water in it. But the pitcher was high and had a narrow neck, and no matter how he tried, the Crow could not reach the water. The poor thing felt as if he must die of thirst.

Then an idea came to him. Picking up some small pebbles, he dropped them into the pitcher one by one. With each pebble the water rose a little higher until at last it was near enough so he could drink.

In a pinch a good use of our wits may help us out.