Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for November

The Horseman

I heard a horseman
Ride over the hill;
The moon shone clear,
The night was still;
His helm was silver,
And pale was he;
And the horse he rode
Was of ivory.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 15	The Assassins Pursue Pinocchio from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Sir Humphrey Gilbert from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Old Clothes and Old Houses from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Matchless Maiden Loses Her Golden Slipper (Part 1 of 2) from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum	Christians to the Lions from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	If You Don't Like Conversation, Skip This Chapter (Part 3 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	Jephthah's Rash Promise and What Came from It from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Eric the Red from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall	Don's Yellow Spring Flower from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Ass and His Driver from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Go A-Hunting from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Romulus and Remus from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price	Old Granny Fox Investigates from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess	The Little Sol Story from The Sandman: His Ship Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	April Rain by Robert Loveman	All Things Bright and Beautiful by Cecil Frances Alexander		Hark! Hark! The Lark! by William Shakespeare	The Universe by Walter de la Mare	Answer to a Child's Question by Samuel Taylor Coleridge	A Sudden Shower by James Whitcomb Riley

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Hare and the Tortoise

A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow.

"Do you ever get anywhere?" he asked with a mocking laugh.

"Yes," replied the Tortoise, "and I get there sooner than you think. I'll run you a race and prove it."

The Hare was much amused at the idea of running a race with the Tortoise, but for the fun of the thing he agreed. So the Fox, who had consented to act as judge, marked the distance and started the runners off.

The Hare was soon far out of sight, and to make the Tortoise feel very deeply how ridiculous it was for him to try a race with a Hare, he lay down beside the course to take a nap until the Tortoise should catch up.

The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a time, passed the place where the Hare was sleeping. But the Hare slept on very peacefully; and when at last he did wake up, the Tortoise was near the goal. The Hare now ran his swiftest, but he could not overtake the Tortoise in time.

The race is not always to the swift.

The Hare and the Tortoise