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Special Guest for World Bee Day 2023

Huge thanks to PJ Murphy who visited all the classes to teach us all about farming bees. We learned many interesting facts from PJ and we had so many questions after learning all about the worker bees!

After World Bee Day on May 22nd, we decided to create some hexagonal tessellations while discussing all the facts we could remember from our special guest PJ. 

   

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