First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for July

Over the Hills and Far Away



Bo-Peep



Buy a Broom



Lucy Locket

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 11 Puddleby from The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting Franklin's Whistle from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston The Careless Caddis Worm from Among the Pond People by Clara Dillingham Pierson The Little Jackal and the Alligator from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Around the Fire by Lisa M. Ripperton Early Pioneers from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge New Friends and Old (Part 1 of 2) from The Swiss Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins The Rain of Fire That Fell on a City from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Cradle Song by Elizabeth Prentiss 		Nursery Chairs by A. A. Milne
The Bluebird by Emily Huntington Miller 		Looking Forward by Robert Louis Stevenson The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson Ladybird, Ladybird! by Caroline Bowles Southey The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Frogs and the Ox

An Ox came down to a reedy pool to drink. As he splashed heavily into the water, he crushed a young Frog into the mud. The old Frog soon missed the little one and asked his brothers and sisters what had become of him.

"A great big  monster," said one of them, "stepped on little brother with one of his huge feet!"

"Big, was he!" said the old Frog, puffing herself up. "Was he as big as this?"


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"Oh, much  bigger!" they cried.

The Frog puffed up still more. "He could not have been bigger than this," she said. But the little Frogs all declared that the monster was much, much  bigger and the old Frog kept puffing herself out more and more until, all at once, she burst.

Do not attempt the impossible.