Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for April

Little Jack Horner



The Little Disaster



My Pretty Maid



The Ploughboy in Luck

The Cow

The friendly cow all red and white,

I love with all my heart:

She gives me cream with all her might,

To eat with apple-tart.


She wanders lowing here and there,

And yet she cannot stray,

All in the pleasant open air,

The pleasant light of day;


And blown by all the winds that pass

And wet with all the showers,

She walks among the meadow grass

And eats the meadow flowers.

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Week 16 Pinocchio Is Found and Put to Bed from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Sir Walter Raleigh from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin Longbill and Teeter from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess The Matchless Maiden Loses Her Golden Slipper (Part 2 of 2) from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum A New Rome from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge Elizabeth Ann Fails in an Examination (Part 1 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Saint Catherine of Siena from In God's Garden by Amy Steedman
Leif and His New Land from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall White Feathers from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch The Oxen and the Wheels from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Keep Myself Busy from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin Orpheus and Eurydice from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price Old Granny Fox Loses Her Dignity from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess The Deserted Ship Story from The Sandman: His Ship Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
Prince Tatters by Laura E. Richards The Little Plant by Kate L. Brown   The Four Princesses by Kate Greenaway Tom's Little Dog by Walter de la Mare The Bluebird by Emily Huntington Miller One, Two, Three by Henry C. Bunner
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

Belling the Cat

The mice once called a meeting to decide on a plan to free themselves of their enemy, the Cat. At least they wished to find some way of knowing when she was coming, so they might have time to run away. Indeed, something had to be done, for they lived in such constant fear of her claws that they hardly dared stir from their dens by night or day.

Many plans were discussed, but none of them was thought good enough. At last a very young Mouse got up and said:

"I have a plan that seems very simple, but I know it will be successful. All we have to do is to hang a bell about the Cat's neck. When we hear the bell ringing we will know immediately that our enemy is coming."

All the Mice were much surprised that they had not thought of such a plan before. But in the midst of the rejoicing over their good fortune, an old Mouse arose and said:

"I will say that the plan of the young Mouse is very good. But let me ask one question Who will bell the Cat?"

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.


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