Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet




Sweet and Low

Sweet and low, sweet and low,

Wind of the western sea,

Low, low, breathe and blow,

Wind of the western sea!

Over the rolling waters go,

Come from the dying moon and blow,

Blow him again to me;

While my little one, while my pretty one sleeps.


Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,

Father will come to thee soon;

Rest, rest, on mother's breast,

Father will come to thee soon;

Father will come to his babe in the nest,

Silver sails all out of the west

Under the silver moon:

Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.


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Week 17 Busy at War and Love from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain How the Imprisoned Princess Became a Queen from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall Cotton from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre Richard Assumes the Ducal Mantle from The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge The Struggle for North America from The Struggle for Sea Power by M. B. Synge The Stone Lion from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton The Captain's Servant, the Widow's Son, and the Woman Who Was a Sinner from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
William the Conqueror from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan A Chapter of Things To See This Spring from The Spring of the Year by Dallas Lore Sharp Joliet and Marquette from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth The Carpenter and the Ape from The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton The Dwarf's Hoard, and the Curse That It Brought from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum The Brothers from The Bee People by Margaret Warner Morley The Goblins from The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
The Skylark by James Hogg   Sweet and Low by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Gathering Song of Donald Dhu by Sir Walter Scott
Robin Hood and the Butcher from Poems, Anonymous   Apr 24
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Swallow and the Crow

The Swallow and the Crow had an argument one day about their plumage.

Said the Swallow: "Just look at my bright and downy feathers. Your black stiff quills are not worth having. Why don't you dress better? Show a little pride!" "Your feathers may do very well in spring," replied the Crow, "but—I don't remember ever having seen you around in winter, and that's when I enjoy myself most.

Friends in fine weather only, are not worth much.