Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for May

A Diamond or a Coal?

A diamond or a coal?
A diamond, if you please:
Who cares about a clumsy coal
Beneath the summer trees?

A diamond or a coal?
A coal, sir, if you please:
One comes to care about the coal
What time the waters freeze.

	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 Frogs and the Ox

An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink. As he splashed heavily into the water, he crushed a young Frog into the mud. The old Frog soon missed the little one and asked his brothers and sisters what had become of him.

"A great big monster," said one of them, "stepped on little brother with one of his huge feet!"

"Big, was he!" said the old Frog, puffing herself up. "Was he as big as this?"

"Oh, much bigger!" they cried.

The Frog puffed up still more. "He could not have been bigger than this," she said. But the little Frogs all declared that the monster was much, much bigger and the old Frog kept puffing herself out more and more until, all at once, she burst.

Do not attempt the impossible.