Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for June




Time To Rise

A birdie with a yellow bill

Hopped upon my window sill,

Cocked his shining eye and said:

"Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head!"

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Week 19 Pinocchio Is Robbed from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Grace Darling from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin Some Unlike Relatives from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess How He Came To Know What the Birds Said from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum King Arthur and His Knights from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge Betsy Starts a Sewing Society (Part 1 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher How Ruth Gleaned in the Field of Boaz from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Who I Am from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Left Alone in the World from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
An Idle Boy from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		Mr. Crab and His House from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright The Gnat and the Bull from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Get Ready for Winter from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin The Pear Tree from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner Jimmy Skunk Takes Word to Mrs. Peter from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess Shelter from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Sweet and Low by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Seven Times One by Jean Ingelow 		  Mr. Moon by Bliss Carman Some One by Walter de la Mare Lullaby for Titania by William Shakespeare All Things Bright and Beautiful by John Keble
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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.


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The Hare and the Tortoise