Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for September

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 25	Pinocchio Promises To Be Good and Studious from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	The Story of Regulus from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Some Homes in the Green Forest from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	Bloom-of-Youth and the Witch of the Elders (Part 1 of 2) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	Frederick Barbarossa from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	Betsy Has a Birthday (Part 2 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	The Tall Man Who Was Chosen King from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	A Variety of Wild Game from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The Tempest from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The New Country Sighted from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	The Hermit Crab from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright	The Frogs Who Wished for a King from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Become a Potter from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Travels of a Fox from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner	Reddy Fox Thinks He Sees a Ghost from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	Cherry Picking from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
	A Boy's Song by James Hogg	The Cow by Robert Louis Stevenson		The Pasture by Robert Frost	In Vain by Walter de la Mare	Wishing by William Allingham	Ariel's Song from The Tempest by William Shakespeare

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Lion and the Mouse

A Lion lay asleep in the forest, his great head resting on his paws. A timid little Mouse came upon him unexpectedly, and in her fright and haste to get away, ran across the Lion's nose. Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his huge paw angrily on the tiny creature to kill her.

"Spare me!" begged the poor Mouse. "Please let me go and some day I will surely repay you."

The Lion was much amused to think that a Mouse could ever help him. But he was generous and finally let the Mouse go.

Some days later, while stalking his prey in the forest, the Lion was caught in the toils of a hunter's net. Unable to free himself, he filled the forest with his angry roaring. The Mouse knew the voice and quickly found the Lion struggling in the net. Running to one of the great ropes that bound him, she gnawed it until it parted, and soon the Lion was free.

"You laughed when I said I would repay you," said the Mouse. "Now you see that even a Mouse can help a Lion."

A kindness is never wasted.