Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for April

Little Jack Horner



The Little Disaster



My Pretty Maid



The Ploughboy in Luck

The Goops—Table Manners

The Goops they lick their fingers

And the Goops they lick their knives;

They spill their broth on the tablecloth—

Oh, they lead disgusting lives!

The Goops they talk while eating,

And loud and fast they chew;

And that is why I'm glad that I

Am not a Goop—are you?

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Week 31 Pinocchio Grows a Pair of Donkey Ears from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Damon and Pythias from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin The Warblers Arrive from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess The Giant and the Birds (Part 2 of 2) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum The Maid of Orleans from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge The Big Bear (Part 1 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major The Little Boy Looking for the Arrows from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Cave Homes from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
The Golden Fever from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Ducks and Oysters from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		Ladybird's Children from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch The Crow and the Pitcher from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Learn to Bake and Am Prosperous from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin Little Two Eyes from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner Peter Rabbit Sends Out Word from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess A New Grandfather from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
The Sea Shell by Amy Lowell If All Were Rain by Christina Georgina Rossetti   Sometimes by Rose Fyleman Voices by Walter de la Mare The Fairies of the Caldon Low by Mary Howitt Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Ass and the Load of Salt

A Merchant, driving his Ass homeward from the seashore with a heavy load of salt, came to a river crossed by a shallow ford. They had crossed this river many times before without accident, but this time the Ass slipped and fell when halfway over. And when the Merchant at last got him to his feet, much of the salt had melted away. Delighted to find how much lighter his burden had become, the Ass finished the journey very gayly.

Next day the Merchant went for another load of salt. On the way home the Ass, remembering what had happened at the ford, purposely let himself fall into the water, and again got rid of most of his burden.

The angry Merchant immediately turned about and drove the Ass back to the seashore, where he loaded him with two great baskets of sponges. At the ford the Ass again tumbled over; but when he had scrambled to his feet, it was a very disconsolate Ass that dragged himself homeward under a load ten times heavier than before.

The same measures will not suit all circumstances.


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The Ass and the Load of Salt