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Today, megan and I read two fairytales, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty. Rapunzel was written by Paul O. Zelinsky and Sleeping beauty was written by Jane Yolen .We then wrote up the beginning, middle and the end for rapunzel. Then we read sleeping beauty and did a venn diagram comparing the two stories as they had some similiarities. Finally, megan took strips with the story parts for sleeping beauty and is pasting them in the right order. I have to do this for rapunzel for her.

We read kate and the beanstalk and jack in the beanstalk and , using a Venn diagram , compared them .   Kate and the beanstalk had several differences , but the same underlying similarities, that is they both had starving families, sold their cow and received beans in return, supposedly magic beans.  In both cases, the mother threw them out the window and a giant beanstalk grew.