Today the students worked on a Halloween poem.  Ask your child what the similarities and differences are between pumpkins and Jack O' Lanterns.  We will also be writing about our field trip in our Writer's Workshop this week. In Math, the students are working on different addition strategies. They have been anchoring numbers to 10 by using the 10 frame and using the words less than or more than.  For example, 3 is 7 less than 10.  They have also been using the addition strategy counting on in which they take one number and count on from there.  If you have the number 6 and 9, you would start on 9 and count 6 more.  We also read the book The Empty Pot by Demi, which was supposed to be followed by a reader's response about character traits found in characters.  We however, ran out of time, so we will continue with this concept tomorrow. During Social Studies, the grade one students created new friends by tracing a classmate, cutting it out, and decorating it.  We will be labeling these new friends with the different parts of the body.  The grade two students are working on the different properties of matter: gas, liquid, and solid.