Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for October

The Little Turtle

There was a little turtle.
He lived in a box.
He swam in a puddle.
He climbed on the rocks.

He snapped at a mosquito.
He snapped at a flea.
He snapped at a minnow.
And he snapped at me.

He caught the mosquito.
He caught the flea.
He caught the minnow.
But he didn't catch me. 

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 16	Pinocchio Is Found and Put to Bed from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Sir Walter Raleigh from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Longbill and Teeter from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Matchless Maiden Loses Her Golden Slipper (Part 2 of 2) from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum	A New Rome from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	Elizabeth Ann Fails in an Examination (Part 1 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	Saint Catherine of Siena from In God's Garden by Amy Steedman
	Leif and His New Land from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall	White Feathers from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Oxen and the Wheels from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Keep Myself Busy from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Orpheus and Eurydice from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price	Old Granny Fox Loses Her Dignity from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess	The Deserted Ship Story from The Sandman: His Ship Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	Prince Tatters by Laura E. Richards	The Little Plant by Kate L. Brown		The Four Princesses by Kate Greenaway	Tom's Little Dog by Walter de la Mare	The Bluebird by Emily Huntington Miller	One, Two, Three by Henry C. Bunner

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