Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for December


The Land of Nod

From breakfast on through all the day

At home among my friends I stay,

But every night I go abroad

Afar into the land of Nod.


All by myself I have to go,

With none to tell me what to do—

All alone beside the streams

And up the mountain-sides of dreams.


The strangest things are there for me,

Both things to eat and things to see,

And many frightening sights abroad

Till morning in the land of Nod.


Try as I like to find the way,

I never can get back by day,

Nor can remember plain and clear

The curious music that I hear.

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Week 4 The Talking-Cricket from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi The Sons of William the Conqueror from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin The Sun from The Seasons: Winter by Jane Marcet The Girl in the Goat-shed from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum The Death of Caesar from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge Betsy Holds the Reins (Part 1 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher How Joshua Conquered the Land of Canaan from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Olaf's Fight with Havard from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall White Pine (Part 1 of 3) from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch The Frogs and the Ox from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Undertake a New Venture from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin Pegasus and Bellerophon from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price Peter Rabbit Has Some Startling News from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess The Rigging Story from The Sandman: His Ship Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
The Sandman by Margaret Vandegrift
The Quarrelsome Kittens, Anonymous 		At the Zoo by A. A. Milne The Twenty-Third Psalm, Bible The Old House by Walter de la Mare The Lighthouse by Sir Walter Scott Up and Down by George MacDonald
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Crow and the Pitcher

In a spell of dry weather, when the Birds could find very little to drink, a thirsty Crow found a pitcher with a little water in it. But the pitcher was high and had a narrow neck, and no matter how he tried, the Crow could not reach the water. The poor thing felt as if he must die of thirst.

Then an idea came to him. Picking up some small pebbles, he dropped them into the pitcher one by one. With each pebble the water rose a little higher until at last it was near enough so he could drink.

In a pinch a good use of our wits may help us out.


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