Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet



Songs for July




Bunches of Grapes

"Bunches of grapes," says Timothy:

"Pomegranates pink," says Elaine;

"A junket of cream and a cranberry tart

For me," says Jane.


"Love-in-a-mist," says Timothy:

"Primroses pale," says Elaine;

"A nosegay of pinks and mignonette

For me," says Jane.


"Chariots of gold," says Timothy:

"Silvery wings," says Elaine;

"A bumpity ride in a wagon of hay

For me," says Jane.


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Week 28 Pinocchio Is in Danger of Being Fried from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Horatius at the Bridge from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin A Fishing Party from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess The Hen-wife's Son and the Princess Bright Brow (Part 2 of 3) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum Queen of the Adriatic from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge "Understood Aunt Frances" (Part 2 of 4) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher Saul's Great Sin and His Great Loss from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Exploring the Country from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
People Land from the Ships from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Captain Smith Proven Innocent from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Helping Mother Oriole from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch The Oak and the Reeds from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Have a Perilous Adventure from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin Lambikin from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner Bobby Coon Is Waked Up from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess Ginseng from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Queen Mab by Thomas Hood The Fly-Away Horse by Eugene Field   A Sad Little Lass by Margaret Johnson King David by Walter de la Mare Hiawatha's Sailing by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Lesson of Mercy by Alice Cary
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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.


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"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.