Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for September

The Moon's the North Wind's Cooky

The Moon's the North Wind's cooky.

He bites it, day by day,

Until there's but a rim of scraps

That crumble all away.

The South Wind is a baker.

He kneads clouds in his den,

And bakes a crisp new moon that . . . greedy

North . . . Wind . . . eats . . . again!

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 31	Pinocchio Grows a Pair of Donkey Ears from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Damon and Pythias from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	The Warblers Arrive from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Giant and the Birds (Part 2 of 2) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	The Maid of Orleans from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	The Big Bear (Part 1 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major	The Little Boy Looking for the Arrows from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Cave Homes from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The Golden Fever from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Ducks and Oysters from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	Ladybird's Children from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Crow and the Pitcher from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Learn to Bake and Am Prosperous from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Little Two Eyes from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner	Peter Rabbit Sends Out Word from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	A New Grandfather from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
	The Sea Shell by Amy Lowell	If All Were Rain by Christina Georgina Rossetti		Sometimes by Rose Fyleman	Voices by Walter de la Mare	The Fairies of the Caldon Low by Mary Howitt	Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field

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.