Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for December


The Goops—Table Manners

The Goops they lick their fingers

And the Goops they lick their knives;

They spill their broth on the tablecloth—

Oh, they lead disgusting lives!

The Goops they talk while eating,

And loud and fast they chew;

And that is why I'm glad that I

Am not a Goop—are you?

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Week 21 Pinocchio Becomes a Watch-Dog from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi Arnold Winkelried from Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin Bob White and Carol the Meadow Lark from The Burgess Bird Book for Children by Thornton Burgess The Stone of Victory (Part 2 of 3) from The Boy Who Knew What the Birds Said by Padraic Colum The Hardy Northmen from The Discovery of New Worlds by M. B. Synge Betsy Starts a Sewing Society (Part 3 of 3) from Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher How the Idol Fell Down before the Ark from Hurlbut's Story of the Bible by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
The Plans of the London Company from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
The Vessels of the Fleet from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis
How I Earned My Passage from Richard of Jamestown by James Otis 		Mr. and Mrs. Crab Get a New Coat from Seaside and Wayside, Book One by Julia McNair Wright The Farmer and the Stork from The Aesop for Children by Milo Winter I Sow Some Grain from Robinson Crusoe Written Anew for Children by James Baldwin The Wee Bannock from Nursery Tales from Many Lands by Eleanor L. and Ada M. Skinner Sammy Jay Delivers His Message from The Adventures of Prickly Porky by Thornton Burgess Housekeeping from The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson The Swallow's Nest by Edwin Arnold   Remorse by Sydney Dayre Will Ever? by Walter de la Mare The Light-Hearted Fairy, Anonymous Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Aesop for Children  by Milo Winter

Belling the Cat

The mice once called a meeting to decide on a plan to free themselves of their enemy, the Cat. At least they wished to find some way of knowing when she was coming, so they might have time to run away. Indeed, something had to be done, for they lived in such constant fear of her claws that they hardly dared stir from their dens by night or day.

Many plans were discussed, but none of them was thought good enough. At last a very young Mouse got up and said:

"I have a plan that seems very simple, but I know it will be successful. All we have to do is to hang a bell about the Cat's neck. When we hear the bell ringing we will know immediately that our enemy is coming."

All the Mice were much surprised that they had not thought of such a plan before. But in the midst of the rejoicing over their good fortune, an old Mouse arose and said:

"I will say that the plan of the young Mouse is very good. But let me ask one question Who will bell the Cat?"

It is one thing to say that something should be done, but quite a different matter to do it.


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