Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for June

The Cow

The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple-tart.

She wanders lowing here and there,
And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
The pleasant light of day;

And blown by all the winds that pass
And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow grass
And eats the meadow flowers.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 26	Pinocchio Goes To See the Dog-Fish from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Cornelia's Jewels from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	A Maker of Thunder and a Friend in Black from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	Bloom-of-Youth and the Witch of the Elders (Part 2 of 2) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	The Third Crusade from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	Betsy Has a Birthday (Part 3 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	How Saul Saved the Eyes of the Men of Jabesh from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	The Leader Not Known from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Arrival at Chesapeake Bay from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis An Attack by the Savages from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	The Crab's Enemies from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright	The Owl and the Grasshopper from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Build a Big Canoe from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Frolic of the WiId Things from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner	Unc' Billy Possum Sends for His Family from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	The Race from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
	Daybreak by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson		The Fairies of the Caldon Low by Mary Howitt	A Widow's Weeds by Walter de la Mare	To Violets by Robert Herrick	Fairy-Folk by Alice Cary

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Fox and the Grapes

A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree. The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth watered as he gazed longingly at them.

The bunch hung from a high branch, and the Fox had to jump for it, The first time he jumped he missed it by a long way. So he walked off a short distance and took a running leap at it, only to fall short once more. Again and again he tried, but in vain.

Now he sat down and looked at the grapes in disgust.

"What a fool I am," he said. "Here I am wearing myself out to get a bunch of sour grapes that are not worth gaping for."

And off he walked very, very scornfully.

There are many who pretend to despise and belittle that which is beyond their reach.