Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for March

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.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 44	Bewildered from The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock	Maximilian and the Goose Boy from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Farewells and Welcomes from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	AIR: THE FIRST STORY from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum Saint Martin and the Honest Man from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum	The West Indies from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	The Black Gully (Part 1 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major	Saint Martin from In God's Garden by Amy Steedman
	The Story of Roanoke from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The Crowning of Powhatan from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Preparing for the Future from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	Swallows on the Wires (Part 1 of 3) from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Lion, the Bear and the Fox from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I See a Strange Sail from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Story of Li'l' Hannibal from Merry Tales by Eleanor L. Skinner	Farmer Brown's Boy Chops Down a Tree from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	The Stowaway Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	The Land of Story-Books by Robert Louis Stevenson	How the Leaves Came Down by Susan Coolidge		The Fairies' Shopping by Margaret Deland	Alone by Walter de la Mare	The Fir-Tree by Edith M. Thomas	The Chestnut Burr, Anonymous

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.