Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for March

The Three Little Kittens

Billy Pringle

Mrs. Bond

There Was a Lady Loved a Swine

The Little Plant

In the heart of a seed,

Buried deep, so deep!

A dear little plant

Lay fast asleep!

"Wake!" said the sunshine,

"And creep to the light!"

"Wake!" said the voice

Of the raindrops bright.

The little plant heard

And it rose to see

What the wonderful

Outside world might be!

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 21	Pinocchio Becomes a Watch-Dog from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Arnold Winkelried from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Bob White and Carol the Meadow Lark from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Stone of Victory (Part 2 of 3) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	The Hardy Northmen from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	Betsy Starts a Sewing Society (Part 3 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	How the Idol Fell Down before the Ark from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	The Plans of the London Company from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The Vessels of the Fleet from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis How I Earned My Passage from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	Mr. and Mrs. Crab Get a New Coat from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright	The Farmer and the Stork from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Sow Some Grain from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Wee Bannock from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner	Sammy Jay Delivers His Message from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess	Housekeeping from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
	Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson	The Swallow's Nest by Edwin Arnold		Remorse by Sydney Dayre	Will Ever? by Walter de la Mare	The Light-Hearted Fairy, Anonymous	Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Goose and the Golden Egg

There was once a Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg.

The Goose and the Golden Egg

The Countryman took the eggs to market and soon began to get rich. But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough.

Then one day, after he had finished counting his money, the idea came to him that he could get all the golden eggs at once by killing the Goose and cutting it open. But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and his precious Goose was dead.

Those who have plenty want more and so lose all they have.