First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for February

Hot Cross Buns



Natural History



Pussy Cat



Warm Hands



Bunches of Grapes

"Bunches of grapes," says Timothy:

"Pomegranates pink," says Elaine;

"A junket of cream and a cranberry tart

For me," says Jane.


"Love-in-a-mist," says Timothy:

"Primroses pale," says Elaine;

"A nosegay of pinks and mignonette

For me," says Jane.


"Chariots of gold," says Timothy:

"Silvery wings," says Elaine;

"A bumpity ride in a wagon of hay

For me," says Jane.

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Week 44 Away to the South from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Kit Carson and the Bears from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston The Fine Young Rat and the Trap from Among the Farmyard People by Clara Dillingham Pierson Titelli-Ture from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Up the Stairs by Lisa M. Ripperton The Roman Fleet from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge Judas Iscariot Day (Part 2 of 2) from The Mexican Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins How Moses Looked Upon the Promised Land from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
A Bonny Boat by Margaret Johnson 		Vespers by A. A. Milne
Peterkin Pout and Gregory Grout by Laura E. Richards 		Fairy Bread by Robert Louis Stevenson Good Night! by Victor Hugo The Fairies Have Never a Penny to Spend by Rose Fyleman Goodbye by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

Belling the Cat

The mice once called a meeting to decide on a plan to free themselves of their enemy, the Cat. At least they wished to find some way of knowing when she was coming, so they might have time to run away. Indeed, something had to be done, for they lived in such constant fear of her claws that they hardly dared stir from their dens by night or day.

Many plans were discussed, but none of them was thought good enough. At last a very young Mouse got up and said:

"I have a plan that seems very simple, but I know it will be successful. All we have to do is to hang a bell about the Cat's neck. When we hear the bell ringing we will know immediately that our enemy is coming."

All the Mice were much surprised that they had not thought of such a plan before. But in the midst of the rejoicing over their good fortune, an old Mouse arose and said:

"I will say that the plan of the young Mouse is very good. But let me ask one question Who will bell the Cat?"

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.


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