Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for August


The Land of Nod

From breakfast on through all the day

At home among my friends I stay,

But every night I go abroad

Afar into the land of Nod.


All by myself I have to go,

With none to tell me what to do—

All alone beside the streams

And up the mountain-sides of dreams.


The strangest things are there for me,

Both things to eat and things to see,

And many frightening sights abroad

Till morning in the land of Nod.


Try as I like to find the way,

I never can get back by day,

Nor can remember plain and clear

The curious music that I hear.

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Week 35 What Pinocchio Finds in the Dog-Fish from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Diogenes the Wise Man from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin Peter Sees Rosebreast and Finds Redcoat from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess The Treasure of King Labraid Lorc (Part 1 of 2) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum The Invention of Printing from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge Lost in a Forest (Part 1 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major The Shepherd Boy Becomes a King from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Captain Smith Gains Authority from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Disagreeable Measures of Discipline from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Signs of Rebellion from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		Box Turtle from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch The Two Goats from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Explore My Cave Further from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin The Hillman and the Housewife from Merry Tales by Eleanor L. Skinner Prickly Porky Makes Himself at Home from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess The Fire Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
My Lady Wind, Anonymous What Does the Bee Do? by Christina Georgina Rossetti   The Walrus and the Carpenter by Lewis Carroll The Window by Walter de la Mare Ladybird, Ladybird! by Caroline Bowles Southey A Song by James Whitcomb Riley
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Fox and the Goat

A Fox fell into a well, and though it was not very deep, he found that he could not get out again. After he had been in the well a long time, a thirsty Goat came by. The Goat thought the Fox had gone down to drink, and so he asked if the water was good.


[Illustration]

"The finest in the whole country," said the crafty Fox, "jump in and try it. There is more than enough for both of us."

The thirsty Goat immediately jumped in and began to drink. The Fox just as quickly jumped on the Goat's back and leaped from the tip of the Goat's horns out of the well.

The foolish Goat now saw what a plight he had got into, and begged the Fox to help him out. But the Fox was already on his way to the woods.

"If you had as much sense as you have beard, old fellow," he said as he ran, "you would have been more cautious about finding a way to get out again before you jumped in."

Look before you leap.