Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for January

How Doth the Little Crocodile

How doth the little crocodile
Improve his shining tail,
And pour the waters of the Nile
On every golden scale!

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
How neatly spreads his claws,
And welcomes little fishes in
With gently smiling jaws! 

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 52	"When the Pie Was Opened, the Birds Began To Sing" from The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin	The Birdling Flies Away from The Birds' Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Wiggin	Peter Sees Two Terrible Feathered Hunters from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	Karen Perplexed from The Christmas Porringer by Evaleen Stein	The King's Messenger from Gabriel and the Hour Book by Evaleen Stein	Gabriel's Christmas from Gabriel and the Hour Book by Evaleen Stein	The King's Illuminator from Gabriel and the Hour Book by Evaleen Stein
	Lord De la Warr's Arrival from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The Young Planters from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe from The Children's Book of Christmas Stories by Asa Don Dickinson	Christmas Eve Again from The Christmas Porringer by Evaleen Stein	The Porringer Finds a Resting-place from The Christmas Porringer by Evaleen Stein	Sheltering Wings from The Pearl Story Book by Eleanor L. Skinner	Babouscka from Christmas in Legend and Story: A Book for Boys and Girls by Elva S. Smith	The Driftwood Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	I Saw Three Ships, Old Carol	An Old English Carol, Anonymous	Old King Winter by Anna E. Skinner	The Glad New Year by Mary Mapes Dodge	Who Loves the Trees Best?, Anonymous	I Heard a Bird Sing by Oliver Herford	Christmas Song by Eugene Field

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Hare and the Tortoise

A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow.

"Do you ever get anywhere?" he asked with a mocking laugh.

"Yes," replied the Tortoise, "and I get there sooner than you think. I'll run you a race and prove it."

The Hare was much amused at the idea of running a race with the Tortoise, but for the fun of the thing he agreed. So the Fox, who had consented to act as judge, marked the distance and started the runners off.

The Hare was soon far out of sight, and to make the Tortoise feel very deeply how ridiculous it was for him to try a race with a Hare, he lay down beside the course to take a nap until the Tortoise should catch up.

The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a time, passed the place where the Hare was sleeping. But the Hare slept on very peacefully; and when at last he did wake up, the Tortoise was near the goal. The Hare now ran his swiftest, but he could not overtake the Tortoise in time.

The race is not always to the swift.

The Hare and the Tortoise