Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for May


The Land of Nod

From breakfast on through all the day

At home among my friends I stay,

But every night I go abroad

Afar into the land of Nod.


All by myself I have to go,

With none to tell me what to do—

All alone beside the streams

And up the mountain-sides of dreams.


The strangest things are there for me,

Both things to eat and things to see,

And many frightening sights abroad

Till morning in the land of Nod.


Try as I like to find the way,

I never can get back by day,

Nor can remember plain and clear

The curious music that I hear.

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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 Fox and the Goat

A Fox fell into a well, and though it was not very deep, he found that he could not get out again. After he had been in the well a long time, a thirsty Goat came by. The Goat thought the Fox had gone down to drink, and so he asked if the water was good.


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"The finest in the whole country," said the crafty Fox, "jump in and try it. There is more than enough for both of us."

The thirsty Goat immediately jumped in and began to drink. The Fox just as quickly jumped on the Goat's back and leaped from the tip of the Goat's horns out of the well.

The foolish Goat now saw what a plight he had got into, and begged the Fox to help him out. But the Fox was already on his way to the woods.

"If you had as much sense as you have beard, old fellow," he said as he ran, "you would have been more cautious about finding a way to get out again before you jumped in."

Look before you leap.