First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for December

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 8

My Father Meets a Gorilla from My Father's Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett

How Franklin Found Out Things from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston

The Dance of the Sand-Hill Cranes from Among the Pond People by Clara Dillingham Pierson

Drakestail Goes To See the King from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Around the Fire by Lisa M. Ripperton

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

The Pass (Part 1 of 3) from The Swiss Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

The Story of a Long Journey from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

Pussy-Cat Mew, Anonymous

Lines and Squares by A. A. Milne

Three Little Owlets, Anonymous

My Treasures by Robert Louis Stevenson

King and Queen, Anonymous

The Ship by Gabriel Setoun

I Dug and Dug amongst the Snow 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.