First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for May

Jack and Jill



King Arthur



Lavender's Blue



Ye Frog and Ye Crow

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Twinkle, twinkle, little star;

How I wonder what you are!

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky!


When the blazing sun is set,

And the grass with dew is wet,

Then you show your little light,

Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.


In the dark blue sky you keep,

And often through my curtains peep,

For you never shut your eye

Till the sun is in the sky.


Then if I were in the dark,

I would thank you for your spark;

I could not see which way to go,

If you did not twinkle so.

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Week 27 The Fisherman's Town from The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Home Again from The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting 		Captain Clark's Burning Glass from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston The Story That the Swallow Didn't Tell from Among the Farmyard People by Clara Dillingham Pierson Scrapefoot from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Around the Fire by Lisa M. Ripperton How Leonidas Kept the Pass from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge "Diddy" from The Irish Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins The River That Ran Blood from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Little Wind by Kate Greenaway 		The Wrong House by A. A. Milne
My Robin by Kate Greenaway 		At the Sea-Side by Robert Louis Stevenson Cunning Bee, Anonymous Thirty Days Hath September, Anonymous Boats Sail on the Rivers by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Lion and the Mouse

A Lion lay asleep in the forest, his great head resting on his paws. A timid little Mouse came upon him unexpectedly, and in her fright and haste to get away, ran across the Lion's nose. Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his huge paw angrily on the tiny creature to kill her.

"Spare me!" begged the poor Mouse. "Please let me go and some day I will surely repay you."

The Lion was much amused to think that a Mouse could ever help him. But he was generous and finally let the Mouse go.

Some days later, while stalking his prey in the forest, the Lion was caught in the toils of a hunter's net. Unable to free himself, he filled the forest with his angry roaring. The Mouse knew the voice and quickly found the Lion struggling in the net. Running to one of the great ropes that bound him, she gnawed it until it parted, and soon the Lion was free.


[Illustration]

"You laughed when I said I would repay you," said the Mouse. "Now you see that even a Mouse can help a Lion."

A kindness is never wasted.