Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for February

The Old Woman Tossed Up in a Blanket



The Carrion Crow



Sur le Pont d'Avignon



Charley over the Water

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Twinkle, twinkle, little star;

How I wonder what you are!

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky!


When the blazing sun is set,

And the grass with dew is wet,

Then you show your little light,

Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.


In the dark blue sky you keep,

And often through my curtains peep,

For you never shut your eye

Till the sun is in the sky.


Then if I were in the dark,

I would thank you for your spark;

I could not see which way to go,

If you did not twinkle so.

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Week 11 Fire-Eater Pardons Pinocchio from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Other Wise Men of Gotham from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin Chippy, Sweetvoice, and Dotty from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess The King's Son Goes Seeking from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum The Great Fire in Rome from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge What Grade Is Betsy? (Part 1 of 2) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Saint Patrick (Part 2 of 2) from Our Island Saints by Amy Steedman
King Harald Goes West-Over-Seas from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall Ladybird Flies Away from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Learn That I Am on an Island from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin The Pygmies and the Cranes from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price What Happened to Reddy Fox from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess The Chanty Story from The Sandman: His Ship Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
London Wind by Laurence Alma-Tadema
The Rock-a-By Lady by Eugene Field 		  The Wise Fairy by Alice Cary The Horseman by Walter de la Mare Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth When Early March Seems Middle May by James Whitcomb Riley
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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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