Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for April

Little Jack Horner

The Little Disaster

My Pretty Maid

The Ploughboy in Luck

Time To Rise

A birdie with a yellow bill

Hopped upon my window sill,

Cocked his shining eye and said:

"Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head!"

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 15	The Assassins Pursue Pinocchio from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Sir Humphrey Gilbert from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Old Clothes and Old Houses from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Matchless Maiden Loses Her Golden Slipper (Part 1 of 2) from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum	Christians to the Lions from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	If You Don't Like Conversation, Skip This Chapter (Part 3 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	Jephthah's Rash Promise and What Came from It from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Eric the Red from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall	Don's Yellow Spring Flower from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Ass and His Driver from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Go A-Hunting from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Romulus and Remus from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price	Old Granny Fox Investigates from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess	The Little Sol Story from The Sandman: His Ship Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	April Rain by Robert Loveman	All Things Bright and Beautiful by Cecil Frances Alexander		Hark! Hark! The Lark! by William Shakespeare	The Universe by Walter de la Mare	Answer to a Child's Question by Samuel Taylor Coleridge	A Sudden Shower by James Whitcomb Riley

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Frogs Who Wished for a King

The Frogs were tired of governing themselves. They had so much freedom that it had spoiled them, and they did nothing but sit around croaking in a bored manner and wishing for a government that could entertain them with the pomp and display of royalty, and rule them in a way to make them know they were being ruled. No milk and water government for them, they declared. So they sent a petition to Jupiter asking for a king.

Jupiter saw what simple and foolish creatures they were, but to keep them quiet and make them think they had a king he threw down a huge log, which fell into the water with a great splash. The Frogs hid themselves among the reeds and grasses, thinking the new king to be some fearful giant. But they soon discovered how tame and peaceable King Log was. In a short time the younger Frogs were using him for a diving platform, while the older Frogs made him a meeting place, where they complained loudly to Jupiter about the government.

To teach the Frogs a lesson the ruler of the gods now sent a Crane to be king of Frogland. The Crane proved to be a very different sort of king from old King Log. He gobbled up the poor Frogs right and left and they soon saw what fools they had been. In mournful croaks they begged Jupiter to take away the cruel tyrant before they should all be destroyed.

"How now!" cried Jupiter "Are you not yet content? You have what you asked for and so you have only yourselves to blame for your misfortunes."

Be sure you can better your condition before you seek to change.