Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for July

The Months

January brings the snow,

Makes our feet and fingers glow.

February brings the rain,

Thaws the frozen lake again.

March brings breezes loud and shrill,

Tp stir the dancing daffodil.

April brings the primrose sweet,

Scatters daises at our feet.

May brings flocks of pretty lambs,

Skipping by their fleecy damns.

June brings tulips, lilies, roses,

Fills the children's hands with posies.

Hot July brings cooling showers,

Apricots and gillyflowers.

August brings the sheaves of corn,

Then the harvest home is borne.

Warm September brings the fruit,

Sportsmen then begin to shoot.

Fresh October brings the pheasent,

Then to gather nuts is pleasent.

Dull November brings the blast,

Then the leaves are whirling fast.

Chill December brings the sleet,

Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 25	Pinocchio Promises To Be Good and Studious from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	The Story of Regulus from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Some Homes in the Green Forest from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	Bloom-of-Youth and the Witch of the Elders (Part 1 of 2) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	Frederick Barbarossa from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	Betsy Has a Birthday (Part 2 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	The Tall Man Who Was Chosen King from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	A Variety of Wild Game from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The Tempest from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The New Country Sighted from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	The Hermit Crab from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright	The Frogs Who Wished for a King from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Become a Potter from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Travels of a Fox from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner	Reddy Fox Thinks He Sees a Ghost from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	Cherry Picking from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
	A Boy's Song by James Hogg	The Cow by Robert Louis Stevenson		The Pasture by Robert Frost	In Vain by Walter de la Mare	Wishing by William Allingham	Ariel's Song from The Tempest by William Shakespeare

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf

A Shepherd Boy tended his master's Sheep near a dark forest not far from the village. Soon he found life in the pasture very dull. All he could do to amuse himself was to talk to his dog or play on his shepherd's pipe.

One day as he sat watching the Sheep and the quiet forest, and thinking what he would do should he see a Wolf, he thought of a plan to amuse himself.

His Master had told him to call for help should a Wolf attack the flock, and the Villagers would drive it away. So now, though he had not seen anything that even looked like a Wolf, he ran toward the village shouting at the top of his voice, "Wolf! Wolf!"

As he expected, the Villagers who heard the cry dropped their work and ran in great excitement to the pasture. But when they got there they found the Boy doubled up with laughter at the trick he had played on them.

A few days later the Shepherd Boy again shouted, "Wolf! Wolf!" Again the Villagers ran to help him, only to be laughed at again. Then one evening as the sun was setting behind the forest and the shadows were creeping out over the pasture, a Wolf really did spring from the underbrush and fall upon the Sheep.

In terror the Boy ran toward the village shouting "Wolf! Wolf!" But though the Villagers heard the cry, they did not run to help him as they had before. "He cannot fool us again," they said.

The Wolf killed a great many of the Boy's sheep and then slipped away into the forest.

Liars are not believed even when they speak the truth.