Second grade students at Monarch Academy Public Charter School in Glen Burnie, MD researched pollinators and used their knowledge to write and illustrate Busy Little Bees. In their classrooms, students learned about the life cycle of plants, the importance of pollinators, threats to pollinators, and how to become activists for pollinators. In art class, students looked clo Second grade students at Monarch Academy Public Charter School in Glen Burnie, MD researched pollinators and used their knowledge to write and illustrate Busy Little Bees. In their classrooms, students learned about the life cycle of plants, the importance of pollinators, threats to pollinators, and how to become activists for pollinators. In art class, students looked closely at photos of bees, coffee plants, and Ethiopian landscapes to create their collage illustrations. Bees play an important role in our environment. As we learn in this book, “Bees help trees and trees help bees”. Learn about the importance of these unique insect in this early-reader book – with content in both English and Amharic.Ready Set Go Books, an Open Hearts Big Dreams Project, is focused on increasing the literacy rate in Ethiopia through giving readers books with stories in their heart languages, full of colorful illustrations with Ethiopian settings and details. Profits from books sales will be used to create, print, and distribute more Ready Set Go Books to kids in Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country. Ethiopia’s population is 44% children, ages 0-14 (43 million out of 97 million total). Only 5.5% of children attend pre-school or kindergarten, and the adult literacy rate is 49%. Our books are based on wise Ethiopian sayings that often rhyme in Amharic. If an adult says the first half, many children can chant the second half. Sometimes the meaning of these sayings is clear. Sometimes it has to be puzzled out and argued over. But sayings and idioms and proverbs help people express truths and beliefs in unusual ways. Open Hearts Big Dreams Fund (OHBD) is a 501(3)(c) not for profit organization that believes the chance to dream big dreams should not depend on where in the world you are born. Our focus is to support nonprofit organizations and their programs that provide literacy, K-12 education, and leadership as well as that support the parents and communities where the kids live, in Ethiopia.