Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for February

The Old Woman Tossed Up in a Blanket



The Carrion Crow



Sur le Pont d'Avignon



Charley over the Water



The Rain

The rain is raining all around,

It falls on field and tree,

It rains on the umbrellas here,

And on the ships at sea.

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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 Two Goats

Two Goats, frisking gayly on the rocky steeps of a mountain valley, chanced to meet, one on each side of a deep chasm through which poured a mighty mountain torrent. The trunk of a fallen tree formed the only means of crossing the chasm, and on this not even two squirrels could have passed each other in safety. The narrow path would have made the bravest tremble. Not so our Goats. Their pride would not permit either to stand aside for the other.

One set her foot on the log. The other did likewise. In the middle they met horn to horn. Neither would give way, and so they both fell, to be swept away by the roaring torrent below.

It is better to yield than to come to misfortune through stubbornness.


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