Third Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for December

The Little Plant

In the heart of a seed,

Buried deep, so deep!

A dear little plant

Lay fast asleep!

"Wake!" said the sunshine,

"And creep to the light!"

"Wake!" said the voice

Of the raindrops bright.

The little plant heard

And it rose to see

What the wonderful

Outside world might be!

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 3	Across the Moor from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett	The Romans Come Again from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall	More of Peter's Long-Legged Cousins from The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	Siegfried Comes Home from Stories of Siegfried Told to the Children by Mary Macgregor	Round the World from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	The Old Hag's Long Leather Bag from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Beside the Sea by Lisa M. Ripperton	The Last Days of Solomon's Reign from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Speaking a Piece from Fifty Famous People by James Baldwin	Low Tide from Holiday Shore by Edith M. Patch	Columbus after the Discovery of America from A First Book in American History by Edward Eggleston	The Stag and His Reflection from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	The First Man; or, The Story of Prometheus and Pandora from Gods and Heroes by Robert Edward Francillon	A Look at Mrs. Wasp from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright	Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets into a Tight Place from Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
	Buckingham Palace by A. A. Milne	To the Evening Star by William Blake	The Salcombe Seaman's Flaunt to the Proud Pirate, Anonymous	A Child's Prayer by M. Betham Edwards	Doorbells from Poems by Rachel Lyman Field	Frost Pictures, Anonymous	A Legend of the Northland by Phoebe Cary

READING-LITERATURE: Third Reader by Harriette Taylor Treadwell

The Fox as Herdsman

Once on a time there was a woman who went out to hire a herdsman, and she met a bear.

"Whither away, Goody?" said Bruin.

"Oh, I'm going out to hire a herdsman," answered the woman.

"Why not have me for a herdsman?" said Bruin.

"Well, why not," said the woman, "if you only know how to call the flock? Just let me hear you call."

"Ow, Ow!" growled the bear.

"No, no! I won't have you," said the woman as soon as she heard him say that, and off she went on her way.

When she had gone a bit farther she met a wolf.

"Whither away, Goody?" said the wolf.

"Oh," said she, "I'm going out to hire a herdsman."

"Why not have me for a herdsman?" said the wolf.

"Well, why not, if you can only call the flock? Let me hear you call," said she.

"Uh, Uh!" said the wolf.

"No, no!" said the woman, "you'll never do for me."

Well, after she had gone a while longer she met a fox.

"Whither away, Goody?" asked the fox.

"Oh, I'm just going out to hire a herdsman," said the woman.

"Why not have me for a herdsman?" asked the fox.

"Well, why not," said she, "if you only know how to call the flock? Let me hear you call."

"Dil-dal-holom!" sang out the fox in a fine clear voice.

"Yes, I'll have you for my herdsman," said the woman, and she set the fox to herd her flock.

The first day the fox was herdsman he ate up all the woman's goats; the next day he made an end of all her sheep; and the third day he ate up all her cows. So, when he came home at even, the woman asked what he had done with all her flocks.

"Oh!" said the fox, "their skulls are in the stream, and their bodies in the holt."

Now, the Goody stood and churned when the fox said this, but she thought she might as well step out and see after her flock. While she was away the fox crept into the churn and ate up the cream. When Goody came back and saw that she fell into a rage. She snatched up the little morsel of cream that was left and threw it at the fox as he ran off. He got a dab of it on the end of his tail, and that's the reason why the fox has a white tip to his brush.

— Norse Folk Tale