Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for January

I Had a Little Nut Tree

The Four Presents

Little Man and Maid

The Jolly Tester

Elf and Dormouse

Under a toadstool

Crept a wee Elf,

Out of the rain

To shelter himself.

Under the toadstool,

Sound asleep,

Sat a big Dormouse

All in a heap.

Trembled the wee Elf

Frightened, and yet

Fearing to fly away

Lest he get wet.

To the next shelter

Maybe a mile

Sudden the wee Elf

Smiled a wee smile.

Tugged till the toadstool

Toppled in two

Holding it over him

Gayly he flew.

Soon he was safe home,

Dry as could be.

Soon woke the Dormouse

"Good gracious me!

Where is my toadstool!"

Loud he lamented,

And that's how umbrellas

First were invented.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 49	The Bird's Nest from The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin	Antonio Canova from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Peter Learns Something about Spooky from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	Buying the Porringer from The Christmas Porringer by Evaleen Stein	Robber Hans from The Christmas Porringer by Evaleen Stein	The Little Colour Grinder from Gabriel and the Hour Book by Evaleen Stein	Brother Stephen's Inspiration from Gabriel and the Hour Book by Evaleen Stein
	Captain Smith's Speech from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The New Laws from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The Accident from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	Sleepy Bumblebees (Part 1 of 3) from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	Karen Asks about Christmas from The Christmas Porringer by Evaleen Stein	I Bring My Tale to a Close from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Jar of Rosemary from The Story-Teller by Maud Lindsay	A Christmas Star from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories by Asa Don Dickinson	The Privateer Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	The Christmas Tree in the Nursery by Richard Watson Gilder	An Old Christmas Carol, Anonymous	A Song of the Snow by Madison Cawein	The Friendly Beasts, Anonymous	A Christmas Song by Phillips Brooks	Christmas Bells by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Bethlehem, 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.