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 42

The Discovery of Oz the Terrible from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

Doctor Kane Gets Out of the Frozen Sea from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston

Other Eggs from Seed-Babies by Margaret Warner Morley

A Quick-Running Squash from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Around the Fire by Lisa M. Ripperton

Back to Rome Again from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge

Tonio's Bad Day (Part 2 of 2) from The Mexican Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

What a Wise Man Learned from an Ass (Part 1 of 2) from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

Jack Frost by Celia Thaxter

Growing Up by A. A. Milne

Wee Willie Winkie, Anonymous

Where Go the Boats? by Robert Louis Stevenson

Lady Moon by Lord Houghton

October's Party by George Cooper

If a Pig Wore a Wig 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.