Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for October


The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse

The city mouse lives in a house—

The garden mouse lives in a bower,

He's friendly with the frogs and toads,

And sees the pretty plants in flower.


The city mouse eats bread and cheese—

The garden mouse eats what he can;

We will not grudge him seeds and stalks,

Poor little timid furry man.

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Week 35 What Pinocchio Finds in the Dog-Fish from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Diogenes the Wise Man from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin Peter Sees Rosebreast and Finds Redcoat from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess The Treasure of King Labraid Lorc (Part 1 of 2) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum The Invention of Printing from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge Lost in a Forest (Part 1 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major The Shepherd Boy Becomes a King from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Captain Smith Gains Authority from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Disagreeable Measures of Discipline from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Signs of Rebellion from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		Box Turtle from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch The Two Goats from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Explore My Cave Further from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin The Hillman and the Housewife from Merry Tales by Eleanor L. Skinner Prickly Porky Makes Himself at Home from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess The Fire Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
My Lady Wind, Anonymous What Does the Bee Do? by Christina Georgina Rossetti   The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll The Window by Walter de la Mare Ladybird, Ladybird! by Caroline Bowles Southey A Song by James Whitcomb Riley
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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?"


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"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.