This grade 1 Manitoba curriculum-connected project provides teachers/parents with a project that not only reinforces real-life math and science skills, but also teaches kids about the important work that farmers do. 

The specific skills that this project reinforces are: 

MATH 

• Subitize and recognize arrangements of dots/objects 
• Represent numbers to 20 
• Addition/subtraction within 20 
• Estimation 
• Repeating patterns 

SCIENCE 

• Use appropriate vocabulary related to the senses 
• Give examples of how the senses are important to a farmer 
• Ask questions that lead to explorations of living things