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

Some One

Some one came knocking

At my wee, small door;

Some one came knocking,

I'm sure—sure—sure;

I listened, I opened,

I looked to left and right,

But naught there was a-stirring

In the still dark night;

Only the busy beetle

Tap-tapping in the wall,

Only from the forest

The screech-owl's call,

Only the cricket whistling

While the dewdrops fall,

So I know not who came knocking,

At all, at all, at all.

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Week 30 How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Washington Irving as a Boy from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston The Duckling Who Didn't Know What to Do from Among the Farmyard People by Clara Dillingham Pierson Nezumi the Beautiful from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Around the Fire by Lisa M. Ripperton Across the Blue Waters from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge The Fair from The Irish Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins Saint Christopher (Part 2 of 2) from In God's Garden by Amy Steedman
A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go, Anonymous 		Shoes and Stockings by A. A. Milne
How To Get a Breakfast, Anonymous 		Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson Sewing, Anonymous Little Birdie by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Minnie and Mattie by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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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.


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