Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for July


The Purple Cow

I never saw a purple cow.

I never hope to see one.

But I can tell you anyhow

I'd rather see than be one.

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Week 26 Pinocchio Goes To See the Dog-Fish from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Cornelia's Jewels from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin A Maker of Thunder and a Friend in Black from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess Bloom-of-Youth and the Witch of the Elders (Part 2 of 2) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum The Third Crusade from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge Betsy Has a Birthday (Part 3 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher How Saul Saved the Eyes of the Men of Jabesh from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
The Leader Not Known from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Arrival at Chesapeake Bay from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
An Attack by the Savages from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		The Crab's Enemies from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright The Owl and the Grasshopper from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Build a Big Canoe from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin Frolic of the WiId Things from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner Unc' Billy Possum Sends for His Family from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess The Race from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Daybreak by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson   The Fairies of the Caldon Low by Mary Howitt A Widow's Weeds by Walter de la Mare To Violets by Robert Herrick Fairy-Folk by Alice Cary
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Ants and the Grasshopper

One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.

"What!" cried the Ants in surprise, "haven't you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?"

"I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."


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The Ants shrugged their shoulders in disgust.

"Making music, were you?" they cried. "Very well; now dance!" And they turned their backs on the Grasshopper and went on with their work.

There's a time for work and a time for play.