Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for January

I Had a Little Nut Tree



The Four Presents



Little Man and Maid



The Jolly Tester

The Cupboard

I know a little cupboard,

With a teeny tiny key,

And there's a jar of Lollypops

For me, me, me.


It has a little shelf, my dear,

As dark as dark can be,

And there's a dish of Banbury Cakes

For me, me, me.


I have a small fat grandmamma,

With a very slippery knee,

And she's the Keeper of the Cupboard

With the key, key, key.


And when I'm very good, my dear,

As good as good can be,

There's Banbury Cakes, and Lollypops

For me, me, me.

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Week 36 Pinocchio Becomes a Boy at Last from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi The Brave Three Hundred from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin The Constant Singers 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 Stormy Cape from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge Lost in a Forest (Part 2 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major The Sound in the Treetops from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
The Second Proclamation from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Building a Fortified Village from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Trapping Turkeys from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		Ants with Wings from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch The Ass and the Load of Salt from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I See Savages from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin The Fishing Party from Merry Tales by Eleanor L. Skinner Unc' Billy Possum Grows Hungry from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess The Porpoise Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
The Bee and the Flower by Alfred Lord Tennyson Runaway Brook by Elizabeth Lee Follen   Mine Host of "The Golden Apple" by Thomas Westwood Bunches of Grapes by Walter de la Mare September by Helen Hunt Jackson The Funniest Thing in the World by James Whitcomb Riley
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Fox and the Grapes

A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree. The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth watered as he gazed longingly at them.


[Illustration]

The bunch hung from a high branch, and the Fox had to jump for it, The first time he jumped he missed it by a long way. So he walked off a short distance and took a running leap at it, only to fall short once more. Again and again he tried, but in vain.

Now he sat down and looked at the grapes in disgust.

"What a fool I am," he said. "Here I am wearing myself out to get a bunch of sour grapes that are not worth gaping for."

And off he walked very, very scornfully.

There are many who pretend to despise and belittle that which is beyond their reach.