Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for July

Time To Rise

A birdie with a yellow bill

Hopped upon my window sill,

Cocked his shining eye and said:

"Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head!"

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 40	The Travelling-Cloak from The Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock	The Kingdoms from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	A Royal Dresser and a Late Nester from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	FIRE: THE SECOND STORY from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum Old King Fork-Beard and the Scarf That He Gave from The Forge in the Forest by Padraic Colum	Golden Goa from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	The Wolf Hunt (Part 2 of 2) from The Bears of Blue River by Charles Major	The Prophet's Story of the Little Lamb from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
	Pocahontas Begs for Smith's Life from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis The Effect of Captain Smith's Return from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis A New Church from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis	A Round Goldenrod Gall from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Monkey and the Camel from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Get Hold of a Savage from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	The Stone Lion from Merry Tales by Eleanor L. Skinner	Unc' Billy Possum Lies Low from The Adventures of Unc' Billy Possum by Thornton Burgess	The Shark Story from The Sandman: His Sea Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	The Raggle, Taggle Gypsies, Anonymous	The Bottle-Tree by Eugene Field		Big Smith by Juliana Horatia Ewing	Dream Song by Walter de la Mare	The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse by Christina Georgina Rossetti	If I Were a Sunbeam by Lucy Larcom

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Crow and the Pitcher

In a spell of dry weather, when the Birds could find very little to drink, a thirsty Crow found a pitcher with a little water in it. But the pitcher was high and had a narrow neck, and no matter how he tried, the Crow could not reach the water. The poor thing felt as if he must die of thirst.

Then an idea came to him. Picking up some small pebbles, he dropped them into the pitcher one by one. With each pebble the water rose a little higher until at last it was near enough so he could drink.

In a pinch a good use of our wits may help us out.