Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for April

The Swing

How do you like to go up in a swing, 
Up in the air so blue?
Oh! I do think it the pleasantest thing 
Ever a child can do!

Up in the air and over the wall, 
Till I can see so wide,
Rivers and trees and cattle and all 
Over the countryside—

Till I look down on the garden green, 
Down on the roof so brown—
Up in the air I go flying again, 
Up in the air and down!

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 35	What Pinocchio Finds in the Dog-Fish from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Diogenes the Wise Man from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Peter Sees Rosebreast and Finds Redcoat from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Treasure of King Labraid Lorc (Part 1 of 2) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum	The Invention of Printing from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	Lost in a Forest (Part 1 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major	The Shepherd Boy Becomes a King from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Captain Smith Gains Authority from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Disagreeable Measures of Discipline from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis Signs of Rebellion from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	Box Turtle from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Two Goats from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Explore My Cave Further from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Hillman and the Housewife from Merry Tales by Eleanor L. Skinner	Prickly Porky Makes Himself at Home from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	The Fire Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	My Lady Wind, Anonymous	What Does the Bee Do? by Christina Georgina Rossetti		The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll	The Window by Walter de la Mare	Ladybird, Ladybird! by Caroline Bowles Southey	A Song by James Whitcomb Riley

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Goose and the Golden Egg

There was once a Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg.

The Goose and the Golden Egg

The Countryman took the eggs to market and soon began to get rich. But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough.

Then one day, after he had finished counting his money, the idea came to him that he could get all the golden eggs at once by killing the Goose and cutting it open. But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and his precious Goose was dead.

Those who have plenty want more and so lose all they have.