Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for September


Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Twinkle, twinkle, little star;

How I wonder what you are!

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky!


When the blazing sun is set,

And the grass with dew is wet,

Then you show your little light,

Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.


In the dark blue sky you keep,

And often through my curtains peep,

For you never shut your eye

Till the sun is in the sky.


Then if I were in the dark,

I would thank you for your spark;

I could not see which way to go,

If you did not twinkle so.

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Week 45 Helpless No More from The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock The Inchcape Rock from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin Honker and Dippy Arrive from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess AIR: THE SECOND STORY from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum
Bellerophon from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum 		Columbus in Chains from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge The Black Gully (Part 2 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major Absalom in the Wood; David on the Throne (Part 2 of 2) from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Stealing the Company's Goods from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
What the Thieving Led To from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Fear of Famine in a Land of Plenty from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		New Coats for Bluebirds (Part 2 of 3) from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch The Wolf and the Lamb from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Make a Bold Rescue from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin The Jackal and the Alligator 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 Albatross Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
The Derelict Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
Romance by Gabriel Setoun Norse Lullaby by Eugene Field   Hiawatha's Childhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Earth Folk by Walter de la Mare The Winter Robin by Thomas Bailey Aldrich The Raggedy Man by James Whitcomb Riley
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Milkmaid and Her Pail

A Milkmaid had been out to milk the cows and was returning from the field with the shining milk pail balanced nicely on her head. As she walked along, her pretty head was busy with plans for the days to come.

"This good, rich milk," she reused, "will give me plenty of cream to churn. The butter I make I will take to market, and with the money I get for it I will buy a lot of eggs for hatching. How nice it will be when they are all hatched and the yard is full of fine young chicks. Then when May day comes I will sell them, and with the money I'll buy a lovely new dress to wear to the fair. All the young men will look at me. They will come and try to make love to me,—but I shall very quickly send them about their business!"

As she thought of how she would settle that matter, she tossed her head scornfully, and down fell the pail of milk to the ground. And all the milk flowed out, and with it vanished butter and eggs and chicks and new dress and all the milkmaid's pride.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.


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