Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for June

The Cow

The friendly cow all red and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple-tart.

She wanders lowing here and there,
And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
The pleasant light of day;

And blown by all the winds that pass
And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow grass
And eats the meadow flowers.

	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 Lion and the Mouse

A Lion lay asleep in the forest, his great head resting on his paws. A timid little Mouse came upon him unexpectedly, and in her fright and haste to get away, ran across the Lion's nose. Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his huge paw angrily on the tiny creature to kill her.

"Spare me!" begged the poor Mouse. "Please let me go and some day I will surely repay you."

The Lion was much amused to think that a Mouse could ever help him. But he was generous and finally let the Mouse go.

Some days later, while stalking his prey in the forest, the Lion was caught in the toils of a hunter's net. Unable to free himself, he filled the forest with his angry roaring. The Mouse knew the voice and quickly found the Lion struggling in the net. Running to one of the great ropes that bound him, she gnawed it until it parted, and soon the Lion was free.

"You laughed when I said I would repay you," said the Mouse. "Now you see that even a Mouse can help a Lion."

A kindness is never wasted.