Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for August

All But Blind

All but blind
In his chambered hole
Gropes for worms
The four-clawed Mole.

All but blind
In the evening sky
The hooded Bat
Twirls softly by.

All but blind
In the burning day
The Barn-Owl blunders
On her way.

And blind as are
These three to me,
So blind to someone
I must be.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 12	Pinocchio Is Taken In by the Fox and the Cat from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	The Miller of the Dee from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Peter Learns Something He Hadn't Guessed from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	How Maid-alone Ceased Being a Goose-herd from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum	The Destruction of Pompeii from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	What Grade Is Betsy? (Part 2 of 2) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	How a Woman Won a Great Victory from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Homes in Iceland (Part 1 of 3) from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall	Red Oak and Live Oak (Part 1 of 2) from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Fox and the Grapes from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Have a Strange Visitor from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Jason and the Golden Fleece from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price	What Reddy Fox Saw and Did from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess	The Cape Horn Story from The Sandman: His Ship Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	The Sing-Away Bird by Lucy Larcom	Dandelions by Helen Gray Cone		Ready for Duty by Anna B. Warner	Wanderers by Walter de la Mare	March by Lucy Larcom	Seven Times One by Jean Ingelow

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."

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.