First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for April

If All the World Were Paper



The Little Cock Sparrow



Ye Song of Sixpence



My Lady's Garden

The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse

The city mouse lives in a house—

The garden mouse lives in a bower,

He's friendly with the frogs and toads,

And sees the pretty plants in flower.


The city mouse eats bread and cheese—

The garden mouse eats what he can;

We will not grudge him seeds and stalks,

Poor little timid furry man.

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Week 29 The Council with the Munchkins from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum The First Steamboat from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston The Wonderful Shiny Egg from Among the Farmyard People by Clara Dillingham Pierson The Hare and the Hedgehog from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Around the Fire by Lisa M. Ripperton Some Greek Colonies from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge School from The Irish Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins Saint Christopher (Part 1 of 2) from In God's Garden by Amy Steedman
The Clucking Hen, Anonymous 		The Dormouse and the Doctor by A. A. Milne
Over in the Meadow by Olive A. Wadsworth 		Looking-Glass River by Robert Louis Stevenson Cradle Song by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Nonsense Alphabet by Edward Lear Hopping Frog by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Frogs and the Ox

An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink. As he splashed heavily into the water, he crushed a young Frog into the mud. The old Frog soon missed the little one and asked his brothers and sisters what had become of him.

"A great big  monster," said one of them, "stepped on little brother with one of his huge feet!"

"Big, was he!" said the old Frog, puffing herself up. "Was he as big as this?"


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"Oh, much  bigger!" they cried.

The Frog puffed up still more. "He could not have been bigger than this," she said. But the little Frogs all declared that the monster was much, much  bigger and the old Frog kept puffing herself out more and more until, all at once, she burst.

Do not attempt the impossible.