Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for February

The Old Woman Tossed Up in a Blanket



The Carrion Crow



Sur le Pont d'Avignon



Charley over the Water

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 22 Pinocchio Discovers the Robbers from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi The Bell of Atri from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin A Swallow and One Who Isn't from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess The Stone of Victory (Part 3 of 3) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum How the Northmen Conquered England from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge The New Clothes Fail (Part 1 of 2) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Saint Columba (Part 1 of 2) from Our Island Saints by Amy Steedman
When the Fleet Set Sail from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
The Voyage Delayed from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Nathaniel's Story from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		What the Crab Does from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright The Sheep and the Pig from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Make a Long Journey from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin The Three Friends from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner Old Man Coyote Loses His Appetite from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess Earning a Living from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Lamb by William Blake Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson   Discontent by Sarah Orne Jewett Summer Evening by Walter de la Mare A Boy's Song by James Hogg The Pixy People by James Whitcomb Riley
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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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