Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for July

The Little Turtle

There was a little turtle.
He lived in a box.
He swam in a puddle.
He climbed on the rocks.

He snapped at a mosquito.
He snapped at a flea.
He snapped at a minnow.
And he snapped at me.

He caught the mosquito.
He caught the flea.
He caught the minnow.
But he didn't catch me. 

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 40	The Travelling-Cloak from The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock	The Kingdoms from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	A Royal Dresser and a Late Nester from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	FIRE: THE SECOND STORY from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum Old King Fork-Beard and the Scarf That He Gave from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum	Golden Goa from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	The Wolf Hunt (Part 2 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major	The Prophet's Story of the Little Lamb from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Pocahontas Begs for Smith's Life from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The Effect of Captain Smith's Return from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis A New Church from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	A Round Goldenrod Gall from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Monkey and the Camel from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Get Hold of a Savage from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Stone Lion from Merry Tales by Eleanor L. Skinner	Unc' Billy Possum Lies Low from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	The Shark Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	The Raggle, Taggle Gypsies, Anonymous	The Bottle-Tree by Eugene Field		Big Smith by Juliana Horatia Ewing	Dream Song by Walter de la Mare	The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse by Christina Georgina Rossetti	If I Were a Sunbeam by Lucy Larcom

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Fox and the Goat

A Fox fell into a well, and though it was not very deep, he found that he could not get out again. After he had been in the well a long time, a thirsty Goat came by. The Goat thought the Fox had gone down to drink, and so he asked if the water was good.

"The finest in the whole country," said the crafty Fox, "jump in and try it. There is more than enough for both of us."

The thirsty Goat immediately jumped in and began to drink. The Fox just as quickly jumped on the Goat's back and leaped from the tip of the Goat's horns out of the well.

The foolish Goat now saw what a plight he had got into, and begged the Fox to help him out. But the Fox was already on his way to the woods.

"If you had as much sense as you have beard, old fellow," he said as he ran, "you would have been more cautious about finding a way to get out again before you jumped in."

Look before you leap.