Fourth Grade Read Aloud Banquet




A Boy's Song

Where the pools are bright and deep,

Where the gray trout lies asleep,

Up the river and o'er the lea,

That's the way for Billy and me.


Where the blackbird sings the latest,

Where the hawthorn blooms the sweetest,

Where the nestlings chirp and flee,

That's the way for Billy and me.


Where the mowers mow the cleanest,

Where the hay lies thick and greenest,

There to trace the homeward bee,

That's the way for Billy and me.


Where the hazel bank is steepest,

Where the shadow falls the deepest,

Where the clustering nuts fall free.

That's the way for Billy and me.


Why the boys should drive away,

Little sweet maidens from the play,

Or love to banter and fight so well,

That's the thing I never could tell.


But this I know, I love to play,

Through the meadow, among the hay;

Up the water and o'er the lea,

That's the way for Billy and me.



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Week 5 Prisoners and Captives from The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit Edward IV—The Story of the Kingmaker from Our Island Story by H. E. Marshall The Sheepfold from The Story Book of Science by Jean Henri Fabre How Otto Dwelt at St. Michaelsburg from Otto of the Silver Hand by Howard Pyle The Story of the Huguenots from The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge The Prince That Married a Nixie from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Upon the Rock by Lisa M. Ripperton The Boy in His Father's House from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
The Story of the Nibelungs from Heroes of the Middle Ages by Eva March Tappan Christmas in the Woods from Winter by Dallas Lore Sharp The Spanish Conquests and Explorations from Builders of Our Country: Book I by Gertrude van Duyn Southworth The Sandy Road from Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt How Brock Brought Judgement on Loki from The Children of Odin: A Book of Northern Myths by Padraic Colum Injurious Beetles from Insect Life by Arabella B. Buckley No Wings from Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit
The Mountain and the Squirrel by Ralph Waldo Emerson Over and Over Again, Anonymous The Moon by Emily Dickinson Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Winter from Poems by William Shakespeare The Purple Cow by Gelett Burgess King John and the Abbot of Canterbury, Anonymous
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Wolves and the Sheep

A pack of Wolves lurked near the Sheep pasture. But the Dogs kept them all at a respectful distance, and the Sheep grazed in perfect safety. But now the Wolves thought of a plan to trick the Sheep.

"Why is there always this hostility between us?" they said. "If it were not for those Dogs who are always stirring up trouble, I am sure we should get along beautifully. Send them away and you will see what good friends we shall become."

The Sheep were easily fooled. They persuaded the Dogs to go away, and that very evening the Wolves had the grandest feast of their lives.

Do not give up friends for foes.