Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for January

All But Blind

All but blind
In his chambered hole
Gropes for worms
The four-clawed Mole.

All but blind
In the evening sky
The hooded Bat
Twirls softly by.

All but blind
In the burning day
The Barn-Owl blunders
On her way.

And blind as are
These three to me,
So blind to someone
I must be.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
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

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.