Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for December


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 9 Pinocchio Sells His Spelling-Book from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi The Black Douglas from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin The Old Orchard Bully from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess Water for the King's Son from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum Voyage and Shipwreck from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge Betsy Goes to School (Part 1 of 2) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher The Present That Ehud Brought to King Eglon from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
The Sea Fight from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall A Frog Chorus (Part 2 of 3) from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch Hercules and the Wagoner from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Make Me a Raft from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin Daedalus and Icarus from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price Jimmy Skunk and Unc' Billy Possum Tell Stories from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess The Fitting Story from The Sandman: His Ship Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
The Fairies by William Allingham The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear Eletelephony by Laura E. Richards Nonsense Verse by Edward Lear Nobody Knows by Walter de la Mare The Four Winds by Frank Dempster Sherman The First Bluebird by James Whitcomb Riley
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

Belling the Cat

The mice once called a meeting to decide on a plan to free themselves of their enemy, the Cat. At least they wished to find some way of knowing when she was coming, so they might have time to run away. Indeed, something had to be done, for they lived in such constant fear of her claws that they hardly dared stir from their dens by night or day.

Many plans were discussed, but none of them was thought good enough. At last a very young Mouse got up and said:

"I have a plan that seems very simple, but I know it will be successful. All we have to do is to hang a bell about the Cat's neck. When we hear the bell ringing we will know immediately that our enemy is coming."

All the Mice were much surprised that they had not thought of such a plan before. But in the midst of the rejoicing over their good fortune, an old Mouse arose and said:

"I will say that the plan of the young Mouse is very good. But let me ask one question Who will bell the Cat?"

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.


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