Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for July

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 31	Pinocchio Grows a Pair of Donkey Ears from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Damon and Pythias from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	The Warblers Arrive from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Giant and the Birds (Part 2 of 2) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	The Maid of Orleans from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	The Big Bear (Part 1 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major	The Little Boy Looking for the Arrows from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Cave Homes from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The Golden Fever from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Ducks and Oysters from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	Ladybird's Children from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Crow and the Pitcher from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Learn to Bake and Am Prosperous from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Little Two Eyes from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner	Peter Rabbit Sends Out Word from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	A New Grandfather from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
	The Sea Shell by Amy Lowell	If All Were Rain by Christina Georgina Rossetti		Sometimes by Rose Fyleman	Voices by Walter de la Mare	The Fairies of the Caldon Low by Mary Howitt	Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field

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.