First Grade Read Aloud Banquet



Songs for September

Dickory Dock



London Bridge



Puss at Court



Ye Frog's Wooing






Who Has Seen the Wind?

Who has seen the wind?

Neither I nor you;

But when the leaves hang trembling

The wind is passing through.


Who has seen the wind?

Neither you nor I.

But when the trees bow down their heads

The wind is passing by.


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Week 16 Polynesia and the King from The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting How Benny West Learned To Be a Painter from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston The Clever Water-Adder from Among the Pond People by Clara Dillingham Pierson Little Black Sambo from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Around the Fire by Lisa M. Ripperton The Story of the Argonauts from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge Fishing from The Filipino Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins How Jacob Stole His Brother's Blessing from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Lock the Dairy Door by Celia Thaxter
Spring Morning by A. A. Milne
Seven Times One by Jean Ingelow
The Moon by Robert Louis Stevenson Runaway Brook by Elizabeth Lee Follen He Who Would Thrive by Benjamin Franklin Fair To See by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Poems  by Edward Lear

A Was Once an Apple Pie

A was once an apple-pie,

Pidy,

Widy,

Tidy,

Pidy,

Nice insidy,

Apple-pie!


B was once a little bear,

Beary,

Wary,

Hairy,

Beary,

Taky cary,

Little bear!


C was once a little cake,

Caky,

Baky,

Maky,

Caky,

Taky caky,

Little cake!


D was once a little doll,

Dolly,

Molly,

Polly,

Nolly,

Nursy dolly,

Little doll!


E was once a little eel,

Eely,

Weely,

Peely,

Eely,

Twirly, tweely,

Little eel!


F was once a little fish,

Fishy,

Wishy,

Squishy,

Fishy,

In a dishy,

Little fish!


G was once a little goose,

Goosy,

Moosy,

Boosey,

Goosey,

Waddly-woosy,

Little goose!


H was once a little hen,

Henny,

Chenny,

Tenny,

Henny.

Eggsy-any,

Little hen?


I was once a bottle of ink

Inky,

Dinky,

Thinky,

Inky,

Blacky minky,

Bottle of ink!


J was once a jar of jam,

Jammy,

Mammy,

Clammy,

Jammy,

Sweety, swammy,

Jar of jam!


K was once a little kite,

Kity,

Whity,

Flighty,

Kity,

Out of sighty,

Little kite!


L was once a little lark,

Larky,

Marky,

Harky,

Larky,

In the parky,

Little lark!


M was once a little mouse,

Mousy,

Bousy,

Sousy,

Mousy,

In the housy,

Little mouse!


N was once a little needle,

Needly,

Tweedly,

Threedly,

Needly,

Wisky, wheedly,

Little needle!


O was once a little owl,

Owly,

Prowly,

Howly,

Owly,

Browny fowly,

Little owl!


P was once a little pump,

Pumpy,

Slumpy,

Flumpy,

Pumpy,

Dumpy, thumpy,

Little pump!


Q was once a little quail,

Quaily,

Faily,

Daily,

Quaily,

Stumpy-taily,

Little quail!


R was once a little rose,

Rosy,

Posy,

Nosy,

Rosy,

Blows-y, grows-y,

Little rose!


S was once a little shrimp,

Shrimpy,

Nimpy,

Flimpy,

Shrimpy.

Jumpy, jimpy,

Little shrimp!


Twas once a little thrush,

Thrushy,

Hushy,

Bushy,

Thrushy,

Flitty, flushy,

Little thrush!


U was once a little urn,

Urny,

Burny,

Turny,

Urny,

Bubbly, burny,

Little urn!


V was once a little vine,

Viny,

Winy,

Twiny,

Viny,

Twisty-twiny,

Little vine!


Wwas once a whale,

Whaly,

Scaly,

Shaly,

Whaly,

Tumbly-taily,

Mighty whale!


X was once a great king Xerxes,

Xerxy,

Perxy,

Turxy,

Xerxy,

Linxy, lurxy,

Great King Xerxes!


Y was once a little yew,

Yewdy,

Fewdy,

Crudy,

Yewdy,

Growdy, grewdy,

Little yew!


Z was once a piece of zinc,

Tinky,

Winky,

Blinky,

Tinky,

Tinkly minky,

Piece of zinc!