First Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for November

Aiken Drum



King Cole



The Old Man in Leather



Ye Fairy Ship

The Months

January brings the snow,

Makes our feet and fingers glow.


February brings the rain,

Thaws the frozen lake again.


March brings breezes loud and shrill,

Tp stir the dancing daffodil.


April brings the primrose sweet,

Scatters daises at our feet.


May brings flocks of pretty lambs,

Skipping by their fleecy damns.


June brings tulips, lilies, roses,

Fills the children's hands with posies.


Hot July brings cooling showers,

Apricots and gillyflowers.


August brings the sheaves of corn,

Then the harvest home is borne.


Warm September brings the fruit,

Sportsmen then begin to shoot.


Fresh October brings the pheasent,

Then to gather nuts is pleasent.


Dull November brings the blast,

Then the leaves are whirling fast.


Chill December brings the sleet,

Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

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Week 31 The Road Through the Forest from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum Don't Give up the Ship from Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans by Edward Eggleston The Fussy Queen Bee from Among the Farmyard People by Clara Dillingham Pierson Snow-White from Fairy Tales Too Good To Miss—Around the Fire by Lisa M. Ripperton The Beauty of Athens from On the Shores of the Great Sea by M. B. Synge How They Sold the Pig from The Irish Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins How the Sea Became Dry Land and the Sky Rained Bread from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Seven Little Chicks by Wilhelmina Seegmuller 		Sand-Between-the-Toes by A. A. Milne
Cherries, Anonymous 		Bed in Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson Hiawatha's Childhood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Pippa's Song by Robert Browning Mother Hen 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