Unit 2 brings science to the foreground, with a study of how wind and water change land. In so doing, it throws into question the stability of the very ground we walk on. In Boston, it’s easy to forget that all over the globe the land is changing shape. In Unit 2, children explore the effects of wind and water on land and consider the ways people both attempt to meet these forces and live in response to them.

Students should work on:

• Addition and subtraction facts up to and within 20.

• The value of coins (quarters, nickels, dimes, pennies)

• Solve word problems involving money.

• Skip count by 5s, 10s & 100s

• Telling time