Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for February

Animal Crackers

Animal crackers and cocoa to drink,
That is the finest of suppers I think;
When I'm grown up and can have what I please
I think I shall always insist upon these.
What do you  choose when you're offered a treat?
When Mother says, "What would you like best to eat?"
Is it waffles and syrup, or cinnamon toast?
It's cocoa and animals that I love most!

The kitchen's the cosiest place that I know;
The kettle is singing, the stove is aglow,
And there in the twilight, how jolly to see
The cocoa and animals waiting for me.

Daddy and Mother dine later in state,
With Mary to cook for them, Susan to wait;
But they don't have nearly as much fun as I
Who eat in the kitchen with Nurse standing by;
And Daddy once said, he would like to be me
Having cocoa and animals once more for tea.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 20	Pinocchio Is Liberated from Prison from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	The Story of William Tell from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	More of the Blackbird Family from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Stone of Victory (Part 1 of 3) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	The Hero of Two Nations from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	Betsy Starts a Sewing Society (Part 2 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	The Little Boy with a Linen Coat from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Captain John Smith Comes to London from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Meeting Captain Smith from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Captain Smith Speaks to Me from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	More About Mr. Crab from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright	The Plane Tree from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Make Me a Calendar from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Teeny Tiny Woman from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner	A Plot To Frighten Old Man Coyote from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess	A New Home from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
	A Friend in the Garden by Juliana Horatia Ewing	Good Night and Good Morning by Richard Monckton Milnes		Little Bud Dandelion by Helen Barron Bostwick	The Little Bird by Walter de la Mare	The Fairies by William Allingham	A Barefoot Boy by James Whitcomb Riley

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Ants and the Grasshopper

One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.

"What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?"

"I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."

The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.

"Making music, were you?" they cried. "Very well; now dance!" And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.

There's a time for work and a time for play.