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 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 42 Living Creatures from The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock The Endless Tale from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin A Butcher and a Hummer from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess EARTH: THE FIRST STORY from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum
The Seven Sleepers from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum 		The Last of the Moors from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge Borrowed Fire (Part 2 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major David's Handsome Son and How He Stole the Kingdom (Part 2 of 2) from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
The Condition of the Colony from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Tobacco from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Captain Newport's Return from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		Blue Chicory from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Teach Friday Many Things from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin The Leaping Match from Merry Tales by Eleanor L. Skinner What the Snow Did from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess The Sounding Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
The Great Brown Owl by Ann Hawkshaw Evening Red and Morning Gray, Anonymous   A Nautical Ballad, Anonymous Five Eyes by Walter de la Mare Jack Frost by Celia Thaxter The Mill by Dinah Maria Mulock
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Fox and the Goat

A Fox fell into a well, and though it was not very deep, he found that he could not get out again. After he had been in the well a long time, a thirsty Goat came by. The Goat thought the Fox had gone down to drink, and so he asked if the water was good.


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"The finest in the whole country," said the crafty Fox, "jump in and try it. There is more than enough for both of us."

The thirsty Goat immediately jumped in and began to drink. The Fox just as quickly jumped on the Goat's back and leaped from the tip of the Goat's horns out of the well.

The foolish Goat now saw what a plight he had got into, and begged the Fox to help him out. But the Fox was already on his way to the woods.

"If you had as much sense as you have beard, old fellow," he said as he ran, "you would have been more cautious about finding a way to get out again before you jumped in."

Look before you leap.