Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for January

The Caterpillar

Brown and furry
Caterpillar in a hurry,
Take your walk
To the shady leaf, or stalk,
Or what not,
Which may be the chosen spot.
No toad spy you,
Hovering bird of prey pass by you;
Spin and die,
To live again a butterfly.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 10	The Puppets Recognize Their Brother Pinocchio from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Three Men of Gotham from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Jenny Has a Good Word for Some Sparrows from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	What the Geese Talked Of from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum	The Tragedy of Nero from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	Betsy Goes to School (Part 2 of 2) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	Saint Patrick (Part 1 of 2) from Our Island Saints by Amy Steedman
	King Harald's Wedding from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall	A Bluebird's Song (Part 3 of 3) from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Kid and the Wolf from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Carry Some Things Ashore from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Atalanta and Hippomenes from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price	Unc' Billy Possum Tells Jimmy Skunk a Secret from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess	The Pirate Story from The Sandman: His Ship Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	The Sea Princess, Anonymous	Violets by Dinah Maria Mulock		Little Billee by William Makepeace Thackeray	Up and Down by Walter de la Mare	March by Celia Thaxter	The Lamb by William Blake

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Tortoise and the Ducks

The Tortoise, you know, carries his house on his back. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot leave home. They say that Jupiter punished him so, because he was such a lazy stay-at-home that he would not go to Jupiter's wedding, even when especially invited.

After many years, Tortoise began to wish he had gone to that wedding. When he saw how gaily the birds flew about and how the Hare and the Chipmunk and all the other animals ran nimbly by, always eager to see everything there was to be seen, the Tortoise felt very sad and discontented. He wanted to see the world too, and there he was with a house on his back and little short legs that could hardly drag him along.

One day he met a pair of Ducks and told them all his trouble.

"We can help you to see the world," said the Ducks. "Take hold of this stick with your teeth and we will carry you far up in the air where you can see the whole countryside. But keep quiet or you will be sorry."

The Tortoise was very glad indeed. He seized the stick firmly with his teeth, the two Ducks took hold of it one at each end, and away they sailed up toward the clouds.

Just then a Crow flew by. He was very much astonished at the strange sight and cried:

"This must surely be the King of Tortoises!"

"Why certainly—" began the Tortoise.

But as he opened his mouth to say these foolish words he lost his hold on the stick, and down he fell to the ground, where he was dashed to pieces on a rock.

Foolish curiosity and vanity often lead to misfortune.