Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for September


Spring

Sound the flute!

Now it's mute.

Birds delight,

Day and night.

Nightingale,

In the dale,

Lark in sky—

Merrily,

Merrily, merrily to welcome in the year.


Little boy,

Full of joy;

Little girl,

Sweet and small;

Cock does crow,

So do you;

Merry voice,

Infant noise;

Merrily, merrily to welcome in the year.


Little lamb,

Here I am;

Come and lick

My white neck;

Let me pull

Your soft wool;

Let me kiss

Your soft face;

Merrily, merrily we welcome in the year.

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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
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Fox and the Goat

A Fox fell into a well, and though it was not very deep, he found that he could not get out again. After he had been in the well a long time, a thirsty Goat came by. The Goat thought the Fox had gone down to drink, and so he asked if the water was good.


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"The finest in the whole country," said the crafty Fox, "jump in and try it. There is more than enough for both of us."

The thirsty Goat immediately jumped in and began to drink. The Fox just as quickly jumped on the Goat's back and leaped from the tip of the Goat's horns out of the well.

The foolish Goat now saw what a plight he had got into, and begged the Fox to help him out. But the Fox was already on his way to the woods.

"If you had as much sense as you have beard, old fellow," he said as he ran, "you would have been more cautious about finding a way to get out again before you jumped in."

Look before you leap.