Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for April

Little Jack Horner



The Little Disaster



My Pretty Maid



The Ploughboy in Luck



The Swing

How do you like to go up in a swing,

Up in the air so blue?

Oh! I do think it the pleasantest thing

Ever a child can do!


Up in the air and over the wall,

Till I can see so wide,

Rivers and trees and cattle and all

Over the countryside—


Till I look down on the garden green,

Down on the roof so brown—

Up in the air I go flying again,

Up in the air and down!

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Week 34 Pinocchio Is Thrown into the Sea from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Alexander and Bucephalus from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin A New Friend and an Old One from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess What the Peacock and the Crow Told Each Other from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum A Famous Voyage from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge How Balser Got a Gun (Part 2 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major The Last Days of King Saul from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Surprised by Savages from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
Strengthening the Fort from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
A Time of Sickness and Death from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		The Bee That Cut Leaves from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch A Raven and a Swan from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Make a Surprising Discovery from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin The Monkey and the Crocodile from Merry Tales by Eleanor L. Skinner Reddy Fox Goes Hungry from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess The September-Gale Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
A Little Dutch Garden by Harriet Whitney Durbin Hie Away by Sir Walter Scott   Farewell to the Farm by Robert Louis Stevenson Song of Enchantment by Walter de la Mare The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson Who Has Seen the Wind? by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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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