First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for July

Over the Hills and Far Away



Bo-Peep



Buy a Broom



Lucy Locket

The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse

The city mouse lives in a house—

The garden mouse lives in a bower,

He's friendly with the frogs and toads,

And sees the pretty plants in flower.


The city mouse eats bread and cheese—

The garden mouse eats what he can;

We will not grudge him seeds and stalks,

Poor little timid furry man.

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Week 30 How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Washington Irving as a Boy from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston The Duckling Who Didn't Know What to Do from Among the Farmyard People by Clara Dillingham Pierson Nezumi the Beautiful from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Around the Fire by Lisa M. Ripperton Across the Blue Waters from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge The Fair from The Irish Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins Saint Christopher (Part 2 of 2) from In God's Garden by Amy Steedman
A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go, Anonymous 		Shoes and Stockings by A. A. Milne
How To Get a Breakfast, Anonymous 		Summer Sun by Robert Louis Stevenson Sewing, Anonymous Little Birdie by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Minnie and Mattie by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

The Fox and the Grapes

A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree. The grapes seemed ready to burst with juice, and the Fox's mouth watered as he gazed longingly at them.


[Illustration]

The bunch hung from a high branch, and the Fox had to jump for it, The first time he jumped he missed it by a long way. So he walked off a short distance and took a running leap at it, only to fall short once more. Again and again he tried, but in vain.

Now he sat down and looked at the grapes in disgust.

"What a fool I am," he said. "Here I am wearing myself out to get a bunch of sour grapes that are not worth gaping for."

And off he walked very, very scornfully.

There are many who pretend to despise and belittle that which is beyond their reach.