Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for December

The Cupboard

I know a little cupboard,
With a teeny tiny key,
And there's a jar of Lollypops
For me, me, me.

It has a little shelf, my dear,
As dark as dark can be,
And there's a dish of Banbury Cakes
For me, me, me.

I have a small fat grandmamma,
With a very slippery knee,
And she's the Keeper of the Cupboard
With the key, key, key.

And when I'm very good, my dear,
As good as good can be,
There's Banbury Cakes, and Lollypops
For me, me, me.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 27	The Fight between Pinocchio and His Companions from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Androclus and the Lion from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	A Fisherman Robbed from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Hen-wife's Son and the Princess Bright Brow (Part 1 of 3) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	The Days of Chivalry from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	"Understood Aunt Frances" (Part 1 of 4) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	The Brave Young Prince from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Reading the London Company's Orders from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Captain Smith a Member of the Council from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Captain Smith Forced To Remain Aboard from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	The Uses of Crabs from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright	The Wolf and His Shadow from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Make an Umbrella from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Little Black Ant from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner	Bobby Coon Enters the Wrong House from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	More Education from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
	Friends by Abbie Farwell Brown	Daisies by Frank Dempster Sherman		The Dumb Soldier by Robert Louis Stevenson	All But Blind by Walter de la Mare	The Succession of the Four Sweet Months by Robert Herrick	Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Milkmaid and Her Pail

A Milkmaid had been out to milk the cows and was returning from the field with the shining milk pail balanced nicely on her head. As she walked along, her pretty head was busy with plans for the days to come.

"This good, rich milk," she reused, "will give me plenty of cream to churn. The butter I make I will take to market, and with the money I get for it I will buy a lot of eggs for hatching. How nice it will be when they are all hatched and the yard is full of fine young chicks. Then when May day comes I will sell them, and with the money I'll buy a lovely new dress to wear to the fair. All the young men will look at me. They will come and try to make love to me,—but I shall very quickly send them about their business!"

As she thought of how she would settle that matter, she tossed her head scornfully, and down fell the pail of milk to the ground. And all the milk flowed out, and with it vanished butter and eggs and chicks and new dress and all the milkmaid's pride.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.