First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for August

Ding Dong Bell



Hush-a-by Baby



The Old Woman of Norwich



The Scare-Crow

The Little Plant

In the heart of a seed,

Buried deep, so deep!

A dear little plant

Lay fast asleep!


"Wake!" said the sunshine,

"And creep to the light!"

"Wake!" said the voice

Of the raindrops bright.


The little plant heard

And it rose to see

What the wonderful

Outside world might be!

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Week 30 How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Washington Irving as a Boy from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston The Duckling Who Didn't Know What to Do from Among the Farmyard People by Clara Dillingham Pierson Nezumi the Beautiful from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Around the Fire by Lisa M. Ripperton Across the Blue Waters from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge The Fair from The Irish Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins Saint Christopher (Part 2 of 2) from In God's Garden by Amy Steedman
A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go, Anonymous 		Shoes and Stockings by A. A. Milne
How To Get a Breakfast, Anonymous 		Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson Sewing, Anonymous Little Birdie by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Minnie and Mattie by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Frogs and the Ox

An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink. As he splashed heavily into the water, he crushed a young Frog into the mud. The old Frog soon missed the little one and asked his brothers and sisters what had become of him.

"A great big  monster," said one of them, "stepped on little brother with one of his huge feet!"

"Big, was he!" said the old Frog, puffing herself up. "Was he as big as this?"


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"Oh, much  bigger!" they cried.

The Frog puffed up still more. "He could not have been bigger than this," she said. But the little Frogs all declared that the monster was much, much  bigger and the old Frog kept puffing herself out more and more until, all at once, she burst.

Do not attempt the impossible.