Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for March

The Three Little Kittens



Billy Pringle



Mrs. Bond



There Was a Lady Loved a Swine

The Land of Story-Books

At evening when the lamp is lit,

Around the fire my parents sit;

They sit at home and talk and sing,

And do not play at anything.


Now, with my little gun, I crawl

All in the dark along the wall,

And follow round the forest track

Away behind the sofa back.


There, in the night, where none can spy,

All in my hunter's camp I lie,

And play at books that I have read

Till it is time to go to bed.


These are the hills, these are the woods,

These are my starry solitudes;

And there the river by whose brink

The roaring lions come to drink.


I see the others far away

As if in firelit camp they lay,

And I, like to an Indian scout,

Around their party prowled about.


So when my nurse comes in for me,

Home I return across the sea,

And go to bed with backward looks

At my dear land of Story-Books.

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Week 17 Pinocchio's Nose Grows from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Pocahontas from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin Redwing and Yellow Wing from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess The Wisest Woman Comes to the King's Castle from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum The Armies of the North from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge Elizabeth Ann Fails in an Examination (Part 2 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher The Strong Man: How He Lived and How He Died from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Wineland the Good (Part 1 of 2) from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall Nan's Blue Spring Flower from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch The Lion and the Mouse from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Have a Great Fright from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin The Golden Touch from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price Granny Fox Catches Peter Rabbit from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess The Flight from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Robin by Celia Thaxter Over the Hills and Far Away by Eugene Field   The Unseen Playmate by Robert Louis Stevenson Nod by Walter de la Mare Hie Away by Sir Walter Scott Don't Kill the Birds by Daniel Clement Colesworthy
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Two Goats

Two Goats, frisking gayly on the rocky steeps of a mountain valley, chanced to meet, one on each side of a deep chasm through which poured a mighty mountain torrent. The trunk of a fallen tree formed the only means of crossing the chasm, and on this not even two squirrels could have passed each other in safety. The narrow path would have made the bravest tremble. Not so our Goats. Their pride would not permit either to stand aside for the other.

One set her foot on the log. The other did likewise. In the middle they met horn to horn. Neither would give way, and so they both fell, to be swept away by the roaring torrent below.

It is better to yield than to come to misfortune through stubbornness.


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