Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for September

Bed in Summer

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.

I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street.

And does it not seem hard to you,
When all the sky is clear and blue,
And I should like so much to play,
To have to go to bed by day?

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 3	Geppetto Returns Home To Make a Puppet from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	King Canute on the Seashore from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Another Snowball from The Seasons: Winter by Jane Marcet	Girl-go-with-the-Goats Loses House Room from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum	The Flight of Pompey from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge	Aunt Harriet Has a Cough (Part 3 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	The Story of a Wedge of Gold from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Olaf's Farm from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall	Juncos (Part 3 of 3) from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Young Crab and His Mother from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I See Much of the World from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Diana and Actaeon from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price	Prickly Porky Makes Friends from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess	The Launching Story from The Sandman: His Ship Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	Snow in Town by Rickman Mark	The Land of Story-Books by Robert Louis Stevenson	There Was an Old Person Whose Habits by Edward Lear	The Wind and the Moon by George MacDonald	Mrs. Earth by Walter de la Mare	A Farewell by Charles Kingsley	Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star by Jane Taylor

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Hare and the Tortoise

A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow.

"Do you ever get anywhere?" he asked with a mocking laugh.

"Yes," replied the Tortoise, "and I get there sooner than you think. I'll run you a race and prove it."

The Hare was much amused at the idea of running a race with the Tortoise, but for the fun of the thing he agreed. So the Fox, who had consented to act as judge, marked the distance and started the runners off.

The Hare was soon far out of sight, and to make the Tortoise feel very deeply how ridiculous it was for him to try a race with a Hare, he lay down beside the course to take a nap until the Tortoise should catch up.

The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a time, passed the place where the Hare was sleeping. But the Hare slept on very peacefully; and when at last he did wake up, the Tortoise was near the goal. The Hare now ran his swiftest, but he could not overtake the Tortoise in time.

The race is not always to the swift.

The Hare and the Tortoise