Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for May

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 28	Pinocchio Is in Danger of Being Fried from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Horatius at the Bridge from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	A Fishing Party from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Hen-wife's Son and the Princess Bright Brow (Part 2 of 3) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	Queen of the Adriatic from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	"Understood Aunt Frances" (Part 2 of 4) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	Saul's Great Sin and His Great Loss from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Exploring the Country from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis People Land from the Ships from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Captain Smith Proven Innocent from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	Helping Mother Oriole from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Oak and the Reeds from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Have a Perilous Adventure from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Lambikin from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner	Bobby Coon Is Waked Up from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	Ginseng from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
	Queen Mab by Thomas Hood	The Fly-Away Horse by Eugene Field		A Sad Little Lass by Margaret Johnson	King David by Walter de la Mare	Hiawatha's Sailing by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	A Lesson of Mercy by Alice Cary

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.