Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for March

The Three Little Kittens



Billy Pringle



Mrs. Bond



There Was a Lady Loved a Swine

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Twinkle, twinkle, little star;

How I wonder what you are!

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky!


When the blazing sun is set,

And the grass with dew is wet,

Then you show your little light,

Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.


In the dark blue sky you keep,

And often through my curtains peep,

For you never shut your eye

Till the sun is in the sky.


Then if I were in the dark,

I would thank you for your spark;

I could not see which way to go,

If you did not twinkle so.

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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 Fox and the Stork

The Fox one day thought of a plan to amuse himself at the expense of the Stork, at whose odd appearance he was always laughing.

"You must come and dine with me today," he said to the Stork, smiling to himself at the trick he was going to play. The Stork gladly accepted the invitation and arrived in good time and with a very good appetite.

For dinner the Fox served soup. But it was set out in a very shallow dish, and all the Stork could do was to wet the very tip of his bill. Not a drop of soup could he get. But the Fox lapped it up easily, and, to increase the disappointment of the Stork, made a great show of enjoyment.


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The hungry Stork was much displeased at the trick, but he was a calm, even-tempered fellow and saw no good in flying into a rage. Instead, not long afterward, he invited the Fox to dine with him in turn. The Fox arrived promptly at the time that had been set, and the Stork served a fish dinner that had a very appetizing smell. But it was served in a tall jar with a very narrow neck. The Stork could easily get at the food with his long bill, but all the Fox could do was to lick the outside of the jar, and sniff at the delicious odor. And when the Fox lost his temper, the Stork said calmly:

Do not play tricks on your neighbors unless you can stand the same treatment yourself.


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