First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for November

Aiken Drum



King Cole



The Old Man in Leather



Ye Fairy Ship

Tired Tim

Poor Tired Tim! It's sad for him.

He lags the long bright morning through,

Ever so tired of nothing to do;

He moons and mopes the livelong day,

Nothing to think about, nothing to say;

Up to bed with his candle to creep,

Too tired to yawn, too tired to sleep:

Poor Tired Tim! It's sad for him.

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Week 29 The Council with the Munchkins from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum The First Steamboat from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston The Wonderful Shiny Egg from Among the Farmyard People by Clara Dillingham Pierson The Hare and the Hedgehog from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Around the Fire by Lisa M. Ripperton Some Greek Colonies from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge School from The Irish Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins Saint Christopher (Part 1 of 2) from In God's Garden by Amy Steedman
The Clucking Hen, Anonymous 		The Dormouse and the Doctor by A. A. Milne
Over in the Meadow by Olive A. Wadsworth 		Looking-Glass River by Robert Louis Stevenson Cradle Song by Thomas Bailey Aldrich Nonsense Alphabet by Edward Lear Hopping Frog by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Hare and the Tortoise

A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow.

"Do you ever get anywhere?" he asked with a mocking laugh.

"Yes," replied the Tortoise, "and I get there sooner than you think. I'll run you a race and prove it."

The Hare was much amused at the idea of running a race with the Tortoise, but for the fun of the thing he agreed. So the Fox, who had consented to act as judge, marked the distance and started the runners off.

The Hare was soon far out of sight, and to make the Tortoise feel very deeply how ridiculous it was for him to try a race with a Hare, he lay down beside the course to take a nap until the Tortoise should catch up.

The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a time, passed the place where the Hare was sleeping. But the Hare slept on very peacefully; and when at last he did wake up, the Tortoise was near the goal. The Hare now ran his swiftest, but he could not overtake the Tortoise in time.

The race is not always to the swift.


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The Hare and the Tortoise