Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for May


The Purple Cow

I never saw a purple cow.

I never hope to see one.

But I can tell you anyhow

I'd rather see than be one.

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Week 19 Pinocchio Is Robbed from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Grace Darling from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin Some Unlike Relatives from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess How He Came To Know What the Birds Said from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum King Arthur and His Knights from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge Betsy Starts a Sewing Society (Part 1 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher How Ruth Gleaned in the Field of Boaz from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Who I Am from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Left Alone in the World from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
An Idle Boy from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		Mr. Crab and His House from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright The Gnat and the Bull from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Get Ready for Winter from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin The Pear Tree from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner Jimmy Skunk Takes Word to Mrs. Peter from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess Shelter from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Sweet and Low by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Seven Times One by Jean Ingelow 		  Mr. Moon by Bliss Carman Some One by Walter de la Mare Lullaby for Titania by William Shakespeare All Things Bright and Beautiful by John Keble
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Old Lion and the Fox

An old Lion, whose teeth and claws were so worn that it was not so easy for him to get food as in his younger days, pretended that he was sick. He took care to let all his neighbors know about it, and then lay down in his cave to wait for visitors. And when they came to offer him their sympathy, he ate them up one by one.

The Fox came too, but he was very cautious about it. Standing at a safe distance from the cave, he inquired politely after the Lion's health. The Lion replied that he was very ill indeed, and asked the Fox to step in for a moment. But Master Fox very wisely stayed outside, thanking the Lion very kindly for the invitation.

"I should be glad to do as you ask," he added, "but I have noticed that there are many foot prints leading into your cave and none coming out. Pray tell me, how do your visitors find their way out again?"

Take warning from the misfortunes of others.


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