Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for December

Animal Crackers

Animal crackers and cocoa to drink,
That is the finest of suppers I think;
When I'm grown up and can have what I please
I think I shall always insist upon these.
What do you  choose when you're offered a treat?
When Mother says, "What would you like best to eat?"
Is it waffles and syrup, or cinnamon toast?
It's cocoa and animals that I love most!

The kitchen's the cosiest place that I know;
The kettle is singing, the stove is aglow,
And there in the twilight, how jolly to see
The cocoa and animals waiting for me.

Daddy and Mother dine later in state,
With Mary to cook for them, Susan to wait;
But they don't have nearly as much fun as I
Who eat in the kitchen with Nurse standing by;
And Daddy once said, he would like to be me
Having cocoa and animals once more for tea.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Week 16	Pinocchio Is Found and Put to Bed from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi	Sir Walter Raleigh from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin	Longbill and Teeter from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess	The Matchless Maiden Loses Her Golden Slipper (Part 2 of 2) from The Girl Who Sat by the Ashes by Padraic Colum	A New Rome from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge	Elizabeth Ann Fails in an Examination (Part 1 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher	Saint Catherine of Siena from In God's Garden by Amy Steedman
	Leif and His New Land from Viking Tales by Jennie Hall	White Feathers from Outdoor Visits by Edith M. Patch	The Oxen and the Wheels from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter	I Keep Myself Busy from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin	Orpheus and Eurydice from A Child's Book of Myths and Enchantment Tales by Margaret Evans Price	Old Granny Fox Loses Her Dignity from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess	The Deserted Ship Story from The Sandman: His Ship Stories by Willliam J. Hopkins
	Prince Tatters by Laura E. Richards	The Little Plant by Kate L. Brown		The Four Princesses by Kate Greenaway	Tom's Little Dog by Walter de la Mare	The Bluebird by Emily Huntington Miller	One, Two, Three by Henry C. Bunner

The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter

The Milkmaid and Her Pail

A Milkmaid had been out to milk the cows and was returning from the field with the shining milk pail balanced nicely on her head. As she walked along, her pretty head was busy with plans for the days to come.

"This good, rich milk," she reused, "will give me plenty of cream to churn. The butter I make I will take to market, and with the money I get for it I will buy a lot of eggs for hatching. How nice it will be when they are all hatched and the yard is full of fine young chicks. Then when May day comes I will sell them, and with the money I'll buy a lovely new dress to wear to the fair. All the young men will look at me. They will come and try to make love to me,—but I shall very quickly send them about their business!"

As she thought of how she would settle that matter, she tossed her head scornfully, and down fell the pail of milk to the ground. And all the milk flowed out, and with it vanished butter and eggs and chicks and new dress and all the milkmaid's pride.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.