Second Grade Read Aloud Banquet

Songs for April

The Cupboard

I know a little cupboard,
With a teeny tiny key,
And there's a jar of Lollypops
For me, me, me.

It has a little shelf, my dear,
As dark as dark can be,
And there's a dish of Banbury Cakes
For me, me, me.

I have a small fat grandmamma,
With a very slippery knee,
And she's the Keeper of the Cupboard
With the key, key, key.

And when I'm very good, my dear,
As good as good can be,
There's Banbury Cakes, and Lollypops
For me, me, me.

	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 Frogs Who Wished for a King

The Frogs were tired of governing themselves. They had so much freedom that it had spoiled them, and they did nothing but sit around croaking in a bored manner and wishing for a government that could entertain them with the pomp and display of royalty, and rule them in a way to make them know they were being ruled. No milk and water government for them, they declared. So they sent a petition to Jupiter asking for a king.

Jupiter saw what simple and foolish creatures they were, but to keep them quiet and make them think they had a king he threw down a huge log, which fell into the water with a great splash. The Frogs hid themselves among the reeds and grasses, thinking the new king to be some fearful giant. But they soon discovered how tame and peaceable King Log was. In a short time the younger Frogs were using him for a diving platform, while the older Frogs made him a meeting place, where they complained loudly to Jupiter about the government.

To teach the Frogs a lesson the ruler of the gods now sent a Crane to be king of Frogland. The Crane proved to be a very different sort of king from old King Log. He gobbled up the poor Frogs right and left and they soon saw what fools they had been. In mournful croaks they begged Jupiter to take away the cruel tyrant before they should all be destroyed.

"How now!" cried Jupiter "Are you not yet content? You have what you asked for and so you have only yourselves to blame for your misfortunes."

Be sure you can better your condition before you seek to change.