Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for April

Tired Tim

Poor Tired Tim! It's sad for him.
He lags the long bright morning through,
Ever so tired of nothing to do;
He moons and mopes the livelong day,
Nothing to think about, nothing to say;
Up to bed with his candle to creep,
Too tired to yawn, too tired to sleep:
Poor Tired Tim! It's sad for him.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
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

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Goose and the Golden Egg

There was once a Countryman who possessed the most wonderful Goose you can imagine, for every day when he visited the nest, the Goose had laid a beautiful, glittering, golden egg.

The Goose and the Golden Egg

The Countryman took the eggs to market and soon began to get rich. But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day. He was not getting rich fast enough.

Then one day, after he had finished counting his money, the idea came to him that he could get all the golden eggs at once by killing the Goose and cutting it open. But when the deed was done, not a single golden egg did he find, and his precious Goose was dead.

Those who have plenty want more and so lose all they have.