Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for April

Alone

A very old woman
Lives in yon house.
The squeak of the cricket,
The stir of the mouse,
Are all she knows
Of the earth and us.

Once she was young,
Would dance and play,
Like many another
Young popinjay;
And run to her mother
At dusk of day.

And colours bright
She delighted in;
The fiddle to hear,
And to lift her chin,
And sing as small
As a twittering wren.

But age apace
Comes at last to all;
And a lone house filled
With the cricket's call;
And the scampering mouse
In the hollow wall.

	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 Fox and the Grapes

A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree. The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth watered as he gazed longingly at them.

The bunch hung from a high branch, and the Fox had to jump for it, The first time he jumped he missed it by a long way. So he walked off a short distance and took a running leap at it, only to fall short once more. Again and again he tried, but in vain.

Now he sat down and looked at the grapes in disgust.

"What a fool I am," he said. "Here I am wearing myself out to get a bunch of sour grapes that are not worth gaping for."

And off he walked very, very scornfully.

There are many who pretend to despise and belittle that which is beyond their reach.