Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for November




Who Has Seen the Wind?

Who has seen the wind?

Neither I nor you;

But when the leaves hang trembling

The wind is passing through.


Who has seen the wind?

Neither you nor I.

But when the trees bow down their heads

The wind is passing by.

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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 Ants and the Grasshopper

One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.

"What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?"

"I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."


[Illustration]

The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.

"Making music, were you?" they cried. "Very well; now dance!" And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.

There's a time for work and a time for play.