Week #16 December 16-20, 2019
We will remember many things about this week.  Here are a few highlights:

Our winter concert Tuesday evening was an exciting event!  Everyone did their best and had fun.  Thank you for attending the concert, and for being part of this special night.  Thank you to Mrs. Rito and Ms. Wood for their hard work teaching us and preparing us to perform so well.  Here is an outtake of my attempts to capture a class photo of us dressed in our finest.

To balance all the excitement surrounding our concert (and several December birthdays), we also enjoyed moments of calm as we continued to write and read our non-fiction books, channeled our creativity with card making, and watched a nature documentary.  We still completed a lot of focused work in math and science, and helped to take care of each other.  Students came home today with backpacks full of completed work and a small white bag of treasures.  They filled their white bag with items to help them have calm, mindful moments during this vacation.  The items include:  a shell, a rock, a gem, sticky notes for quick positive messages, weaving, word finds, zones of regulation tips and a pencil buddy.  A few students even labeled their bag "peace" or "happy" or top secret". 

Other things to ask your child about this week:
*effects of wind, water and sun on land
*breathing with gems
*Zones of Regulation with Ms. Amblo
*Don't Say That Word! and rhyming as Phonics Professors
*Whole-school celebration to watch "Frosty"

Thank you for your support!
Mrs. Hock

Week #15 December 9-13, 2018

We are immersed in non-fiction!  We are writing our first non-fiction books.  We created lists in our "tiny topic notebooks" of subjects we already know a lot about (expert lists) and subjects we'd like to research (interest lists).  We brainstormed, created chapter titles and wrote our first drafts.  Lessons to support our drafting included the objectives of "squeezing our brain" and using labeled diagrams.  We also continued our non-fiction reading as we enjoyed our whole-class titles (Knights in Shining Armour, Tigers, Bats), our independent titles, and our reading group texts.  We are using text features and learning keywords as we grow our knowledge.

As our science unit comes to conclusion next week, our study of Earth Changes this week had us completing our model of weathering and erosion with the rock tumbler (see the pre/post picture of the rocks below), and learning about fast changes to the earth.  Next week, we'll investigate specifically the effects of wind and water on the earth.

We began coding in library this week to celebrate Hour of Code (December 9-15, 2019) in honor of Computer Science Education Week.  We will have 3 more lessons with Mrs. Springer.  We used block coding to solve puzzles on the code.org website.  Students have access to this at home.  Mrs. Springer gave each student their password; let me know if you need another copy.

Other things to ask your child about this week:

• PJ/Stuffy/Comfy Reading Day
• visuals for mindful breathing (infinity, hot beverage, snowflakes, flower & candle)
• solving extended math tasks
• Zoom
• making appreciation cards for our recess and lunch teachers
• zones of regulation with Ms. Amblo

Thank you for your continued contributions to the Food Drive and Penny Drive.

I look forward to seeing everyone at our winter concert next Tuesday at 6:30 pm at SBHS.

Enjoy the weekend!

Mrs. Hock

Week #14 December 2-6, 2019

Welcome to December!  We have a short, full month ahead.  Please read below to enjoy a few highlights from the week. 

Earth changes occur quickly or slowly.  We began a model to investigate erosion with our rock tumbler.  Here we are as a whole 2nd grade group looking at our rocks after the first step in our procedure.

Our word study changed this week.  We are using new curriculum materials and working as "Phonics Professors".  The objectives of our lessons this week included a review of first grade skills with a focus on silent e, long vowels, vowel teams and SNAP words.  For the next 2 weeks in December, we will also look at r-controlled vowels, spelling with correct patterns, using rhyming to spell and complete a winter assessment.

Have you heard that our President is now also our time keeper? Our "leader" wears an analog watch to report and update our schedule throughout the day.  This watch has an elastic band with clearly marked hands and the minutes labeled to assist in our time-telling skills.  So far our Presidents have been very responsible!

This week in math we finished a unit about adding 2-digit numbers.  The standard for 2nd grade is that students add with a place value strategy.  This means students use their understanding of the meaning of the digits, and their relationships, to put the quantities together.  Using the standard algorithm for addition is an expectation for 4th grade.  This strong conceptual foundation in 2nd grade will bring greater fluency and accuracy to the standard algorithm later in 4th grade.  In this unit, we:

1. added 10 and multiples of 10 using a 100 chart and showing our thinking on an open number line (54 + 20 = ____ ) .  
2. added single digit numbers by decomposing that number so we first add to the next decade and then add the leftover ones (54 + 8 = 54 + 6 + 2 = ____ ).  
3. added two 2-digit numbers by first adding the tens, then adding the ones (54 + 28 = 54 + 20 + 6 + 2 = _____ ).

Here is what that looks like in our work:

We also enjoyed Farm-to-School with Kayli this week to celebrate Hygge and create a feeling of coziness and comfort.  We steeped tea using 4 different herbs and enjoyed a Scandinavian winter tale.

Other things to ask your child about this week:

• Welcome Penny!  Our new student from Texas
• Publishing our class book
• Whole-school assembly hosted by 4th grade
• Creating a bar graph
• Asking Questions and Paying Attention to Detail to Grow Our Knowledge while reading non-fiction

Enjoy the winter wonderland this weekend!

Mrs. Hock

Week #13 November 18-22, 2019
I am thankful for my fun students.  Every morning I tell them, "be brave and be kind", and they are!  They work hard to try new things and to take care of each other.  This week we were especially caring as we said "good-bye" to our classmate, Abby.  She will be in a new school beginning sometime the week of December 2.  The students were very kind as they supported her transition and made sure she had a positive departure knowing that she was leaving good friends who were nice to her.  We enjoyed playing with dough and basketballs for her special event.

This week we learned:

• to add 2-digit numbers on an open number line.
• how to use Infobits for our short research on landforms and bodies of water.
• a new morning meeting game called "Where's My Penguin?".

This week we experienced:

• more real-life writing types with signs and notes.  
• RAZ-Kids; an online reading system.
• new tools in our Peace Place.
• creating models of the Champlain Valley with flour & salt dough (see pictures below).

Other things to ask your child about this week:

• making concrete number lines with red & white beads
• measuring classroom objects with different non-standard units
• our bracelet making Marky Mark celebration
• different types of landforms and bodies of water

Thank you for scheduling our Parent/Teacher Conference.  I am enjoying our time together and look forward to our upcoming meetings Monday and Tuesday.  I appreciate your support and this time to collaborate on your child's growth.

Enjoy the week with family and friends!

Mrs. Hock

Week #12 November 11-15, 2019

What an exciting week we had!  Our featured work connected to World Geography Week, we celebrated World Kindness Day, and we shared our published narrative writing; all while weathering a snow day, a guest teacher and an early release "zigzag" schedule.  Most importantly, I want to share that we received very positive feedback from other teachers in our building this week.  1) Ms. Wood, our music student teacher, was gushing about our class's behavior and support as she taught music class this week (in front of her professor) without a voice! 2) At lunch, Miss KiKi said our entire class was "special" because of how quiet and calm we were in the cafeteria.  3) Our guest teacher wrote a note describing how "fantastic" our class was with her on Thursday.  This is all great news! I appreciate how the students are showing their kindness and collaborative care for others outside of our work together.

World Geography Week: (November 10-16, 2019)
On Wednesday, GIS Day (Geographic Information Systems), we worked with a Geospatial Technology Specialist to GIS our playground.  Amy Haas, from VHB, Inc., visited all of 2nd grade to share how she uses mapping and technology in her profession.  She gathers environmental data in the field to then generate GIS of an area.  We used an app to capture the data and viewed our GIS online.  All students received a certificate and copy of our map we made.  We also completed our globes.  Next week, we'll focus on landforms and bodies of water in The Champlain Valley.

Writing:
We enjoyed reading excerpts from our published writing during our "Cider Celebration Share".  It was a nice way to toast our first extended piece of writing.  This narrative writing unit allowed us to write over pages, try craft moves and revise for new leads.  We also started our new writing unit which is a brief tour of writing types and purposes.  Thank you to families who sent in samples of "real life" writing.  We made lists and how-tos this week.  We'll also explore signs, cards & letters and messages.

Other things to ask your child about this week:
*Appreciation Station
*Measuring with unifix cubes and popsicle sticks (non standard units)
*How and why to color a mandala
*Those Darn Squirrels!

Enjoy the weekend!
Mrs. Hock

Week #11 November 4-8, 2019

This week we enjoyed a variety of school activities together.  We began theme work related to Landforms and Bodies of Water in science.  We'll make models of water and land on earth, as well as models of water and land in the Champlain Valley.  Students will also research a specific landform or body of water of their choice.  The science work will then connect to our reading and writing as we start work with non-fiction in those subjects in December.  Here are 2 pictures below of the "before" and "after" of our paper mache globes.  Note:  my hands were too messy and occupied to document the "during" of this process.  :)

Our sharing during morning meeting this month connects with our non-fiction academic work.  Students wrote 3 sentences about themselves; 2 fact and 1 fiction.  We share one student's 3 sentences each morning to discover their fiction sentence.  This has been a fun way to get to know more about each other.  These were Mrs. Hock's 3 sentences:

1. I have visited Japan.

2. I like roller coasters.

3. I have 2 sisters.

Last year I wrote:  I love winter.  My favorite food is raspberries.  I was born in New Jersey.  Which one of those is fiction? 

We had a delicious Harvest Feast.  Here are some pictures of that event.

Kayli visited this week for a Farm-to-School lesson about apples and maple syrup.  We experienced mindful taste after learning about the origins of sugaring and how both apples and maple syrup are a part of Vermont's culture.

Other things to ask your child about this week:

• THINK as an acronym to use before we speak
• Drawing and writing about our family as readers
• Counting popsicle sticks by 10s to 500
• Reading jokes out loud to practice fluency and reading for meaning
• Chair Pockets
• "This is a what?" and "Who's got the spot on the dot?"
• Whole-school assembly led by grade 1

Thank you for all you do!

Mrs. Hock

Week #10 October 28-November 1, 2019

Our Harvest Party was wonderful Thursday afternoon as the students appreciated time having fun together.  Thank you to our room parents, and all families, for organizing and donating food & supplies for this event.  It all went very smoothly, and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.  First, we had a pumpkin stem ring toss, then we played a fall-themed BINGO and finally we ate healthy snacks while decorating mini pumpkins.  We'll treasure great memories for sure!

This week we learned:
*to create maps from a bird's eye view with a title, date, key & symbols, compass rose and color.
*to add multiples of ten using place value understanding.
*the impact of our word choice and tone on others during a guidance lesson with Ms. Amblo.

This week we experienced:
*tie-dying our t-shirts in Art class with Mrs. Lewis.  Thank you Vicki, Shane, Mrs. Donoughue and Mrs. DeGrechie for the assistance!
*activities revolving around pumpkins--crafting, writing, mathematics, decorating, etc...
*our final week of Mindful Movements for the month of October.

Other things to ask your child about this week:
*Blanket Drop Name Game
*Friday afternoon 2nd grade choice events
*Shared "snackcess" with Mrs. Belisle's class
*Grade 3 UNICEF presentation

Thank you for your support!
Mrs. Hock

Week #9 October 21-25

We have many things to share this week!  Pictures are included throughout this post.  You'll see highlights from our celebration where we painted rocks & shells, our first PTO Maker Time session focusing on balance, and our CRAZY CLOTHES ensemble.

This week we learned:

• how to use a Read/Write Google feature for speech-to-text.  We'll use this when we publish our narratives next week.
• what maps have that help us read them, different types of maps, and steps to make our own maps as cartographers.
• how to write comparisons in our narratives to add detail and interesting imagery, and to try new leads based on dialogue, setting or questions.

This week we experienced:

• our 4th Marky Mark Celebration where we painted rocks and shells.  Thank you Mrs. Donoughue for sharing some of your treasures.

• our first PTO Maker Time with Vicki, Shane, Aili and Courtney.  They led us through exploratory activities using balance scales with different objects, fitness items to test our physical balance, and a challenge to use 4 given items to create a balanced product.  Thank you for your time and energy to guide us in our discoveries!

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• reading groups with Mrs. Hock, and managing our work as independent students during our reading block.
• word study groups with either Mrs. Hock, Mrs. Ransom, Mrs. Belisle or Mrs. Blakely.

Other things to ask your child about this week:

*I have, who has

*Base 10 Riddles

*Crazy Like a Fox

*CRAZY CLOTHES DAY

Have a wonderful weekend!
Mrs. Hock

Week #8 October 14-18
This may have been a shorter week in school, but it was sure full of fun and learning.  We did say "good-bye" to our classmate, Javieno.  His family moved, and he will be a new school beginning Monday.  The students were very kind in making sure he had a positive departure knowing that he was leaving good friends who were nice to him.

Here are some highlights from our 4 days together:

This week we learned:

• how to stretch out our stories, use precise words and choose font carefully to add detail to our personal narratives.  We used Rain Stomper by Addie Boswell as our mentor text.
• two new word study activities to enhance our work as "word wizards": sound boxes and Think Pink.  The sound boxes help us isolate sounds in any length word to support spelling and syllabication, and Think Pink helps us not only with rhyming patterns, but word definitions as well.
• a structure for our reading block that includes independent reading, repeated reading, listening to reading, writing about reading, word work, and teacher station.  We are calling it "Reading Menu".  We will also have a whole-group mini lesson to begin our block and finish our time reading with partners.

This week we experienced:

• a unit post-assessment, counting 1330 beans and math menu work with high school volunteers during our math block.
• a scavenger hunt to practice using features of an Atlas
• a guidance lesson with Ms. Amblo to review what we can learn from a sloth and to make our visual reminder to slow down and breathe.
• an assembly lead by 3rd grade to begin our Penny Drive to support schools in Honduras.

Other things to ask your child about this week:

• Where's Blue Dude?
• Clementine
• Mindful movements: hip circle, frog, sky & ground

Thank you for sending in a white t-shirt for your child to tie-dye during Art class the week of October 28.

Thank you for donating change to the Penny Drive.  Our jar as a nice collection already!

Thank you for signing up to contribute items to our Harvest Party on October 31.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0c4caea92ca0f94-harvest

Enjoy the weekend!

Mrs. Hock

Week #7 October 7-11, 2019

It was great to see so many families at Open House Thursday evening.  The students were enthusiastic and independent as they shared their work with you.  They have been working hard, and it made me smile to see their pride as they showed the results of their efforts and toured our classroom.  Thank you for taking the time to visit our room!

This week we learned:

• about the end of the harvest season with Kayli for our Farm-to-School lesson. 
• to make an escape plan with our families with Firefighter Brad for Fire Safety Week (always in October in remembrance of the great Chicago fire of 1871).
• new activities at morning meeting including:  Elevens, The Dinosaur Dinner Chant and Birdie, Birdie.
• 3 mindful movements from Thich Nhat Hahn of Plum Village.

This week we experienced:

• our first lessons about keyboarding with Mrs. Courcelle and our district program, "Typing Quest".
• 2 engineering problem solving tasks about gravity & buoyancy and geometric shapes & architectural design.
• Reading independently, reading with a partner and writing about our reading.
• a guidance lesson with Ms. Amblo focusing on advice from a sloth to "slow down and breathe".

Other things to ask your child about this week:

*open and closed syllables

*our chapter book read aloud, Cuckoo Feathers.

*our 3rd class Marky Mark celebration of making stress balls, and a whole-school celebration--stuffy day.

*our brave, honest conversation during morning meeting to build our classroom community around being safe.

Thank you for all you do!

Mrs. Hock

Week #6 September 30-October 4, 2019

A Fun Week for All!

New games at morning meeting, rehearsing narrative stories, new readers' notebooks, solving math problems and completing Math Menu, creating google slides for Open House, The Fun Run...I don't think 2nd grade could be any more fun or productive!

We used our brainstormed list of personal narrative topics to tell our stories to each other, plan the first, next, then and last elements of our stories and began drafting.  We used our class model of our story about making slime and Mrs. Hock's story about her horse accident to frame our independent work as writers.

This week in reading, we read with assigned buddies, received our readers' notebooks and created our system for using our "comfy corner".  We have been practicing many jobs we have as readers including independent reading, partner reading, and writing about reading.  We'll add word work, listening to reading and speaking about reading in future lessons.

We braved the damp chill of Friday morning and did our best to run 2 laps in our sunny yellow t-shirts for the PTO Fun Run.  Thank you for your support in this fundraiser!

Other things to ask your child about this week:

• The Change Game, Four Corners, Heads Down/Thumbs Up
• Math Journals, Even Steven and Odd Todd, Counting Bags and Addition Fact Sort
• A guidance lesson with Ms. Amblo and the book she made (including a picture of Mrs. Hock when she was in 2nd grade)
• Scientists' tools used to protect, hold, gauge and magnify

Enjoy the weekend!

Mrs. Hock

Week #5 September 23-27, 2019

This week we learned:

• word study routines including sorting, writing, drawing, making words and syllable work.
• 3 new math games:  Count & Compare 2's, Battling Bugs and What's the Difference?.
• to use the scientific process and observe, question, hypothesize, test, analyze evidence and conclude to determine that our item (beads) changes color with exposure to ultraviolet light.

This week we experienced:

• a lesson on "fair versus equal" using band-aids.
• brainstorming topics for personal narratives about people, places, things, seasons and important memories with inspiration from Best Friends, Screaming Mean Machine, Jamaica's Find, Blueberries for Sal, and Ira Sleeps Over.
• "All About Me" share from Cristobal, Julia, Ian, Mrs. DeGrechie, Ms. K and Mrs. Donoughue.
• our 2nd Marky Mark celebration and Lina's birthday.
• a STEM challenge to create the longest paper chain possible with our table groups using 1 piece of paper.

Other things to ask your child about this week:

• making covers for our science notebooks.
• our morning meeting activities:  Mystery Doug, Pica/Ferme/Nada, Hickety Pickety
• labeling events in a day as happening in a.m. or p.m.
• academic choice and a "to do" list.

Thank you for all you do!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Mrs. Hock

Week #4:  September 16-20, 2019

The students were certainly excited this week!  They enjoy learning new tools, information and strategies.  What an eager group!  We are learning how much we can accomplish as a focused, collaborative group.  Here are some highlights from our newsletter this week.

We learned:

• tools related to creating Google Slides including formatting text boxes, backgrounds, and inserting images.
• to be mindful with smell by wafting scents from essential oils, herbs, and flowers from Mrs. Hock's garden.
• more strategies to help us shift our thinking to Growth Mindset using the books Bubblegum Brain, Not Yet, Flight School, Ricky the Rock that Couldn't Roll and The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes.

We experienced:

• Dot Day by reading The Dot and other books by Peter Reynolds and creating our own "mark".
• practicing our handwriting, and reviewing consonants & vowels.
• "All About Me" share from Evie, Kaja, Lina, Cooper and Lukas.
• reading mini-lessons related to reading stamina and stopping to think while reading.
• a guidance lesson with Ms. Amble about The Buddy Bench.
• the district-wide fall 2nd grade Math Standards Assessment.

Other things to ask your child about:

• making covers for our science notebooks.
• our morning meeting activities: Mystery Doug, Class Picture and the Name Card greeting.
• writing equations for odd and even numbers.
• palindromes.

Enjoy the warm temperatures this weekend!

Mrs. Hock

Week #3 September 9-13, 2019

We had a fun week of "firsts" starting with this being our first full five-day week of school.  We enjoyed both our first class celebration AND our first whole-school celebration, and saw our first Monarch caterpillar hatch.  Here are some more highlights:

We learned:

• all about our Chromebooks including the topics of digital citizenship, usernames & passwords, Google Classroom, bookmarking, changing settings, Bookflix and Dreambox.
• to be mindful with touch by feeling a mystery item in a bag (pinecone), handling an item behind our back (seashell), holding ice, and using thumb circles to pay attention to our wrist, hand and fingers.
• two structures we'll use during our math block this year--
1. independent practice (regular maintenance of skills & concepts)
2. choice (use of tools, fluency practice and technology)

We experienced:

• leading a whole-school assembly about Mindfulness.
• "All About Me" share from Siena, Harper, Dagny, Elliot and Sora.
• reading mini-lessons related to deciding HOW to read text, taking a Sneak Peek before reading text and using our "Repeated Reading" folders to reread familiar text to build fluency.
• our first Marky Mark celebration and 2 birthdays where we made slime, played wiffle ball and crafted rain sticks.
• the district-wide fall 2nd grade paragraph dictation and online aMath assessments.

Other things to ask your child about:

• The Golden Rule
• My Magic Breath, I am Peace
• Our morning meeting activities:  Mystery Doug, Coseeki, Down by the Banks, Brave

Enjoy the weekend!

DOT DAY is September 15--may you make your mark on the world!  

http://www.thedotclub.org/dotday/

Who knows, I may wear DOTS on Monday, September 16.

Mrs. Hock

Collaborative Art with Mrs. Lewis

Week #2 September 3-6, 2019

We have a lot to celebrate at the end of week 2!  We have earned a total of 374 Marky Marks filling our bin.  Our first celebration will be Monday, 9/9 and we will be making slime.  We even called a teacher on the "Marky Mark Committee" to share our news.  Fun times to honor our hard work together.

Here are some other highlights from this week:

We learned:

• 3 new math games:  Race to the Top, Empty the Box and Target.
• to be mindful by listening to different tools with different sounds (chime, rain stick, singing bowl and talking stick).
• Our system for using the Peace Place after reading Anh's Anger.

We experienced:

• school pictures, a whole-school assembly hosted by grade 5 and a grade-level orientation to review R-M-C-S on the bus.
• "All About Me" share from Mrs. Hock, Lucius, Lydia and Elliott.
• The start of our Number Corner skills work for the month with ways to make 20, an introduction to clocks, odd/even (impares/pares) and counting by tens.
• creating a class book, "______ is my name.  ______ is my game."
• A quick sort of statements as either Fixed Mindset or Growth Mindset.
• Using watercolors to create a painting related to the book, A Spot of Kindness.
• The district-wide fall 2nd grade spelling assessment.

Other things to ask your child about:

• Our rights and responsibilities as students in our classroom and Howard B. Wigglebottom.
• "Repeated Reading" Folders
• My Name is Elizabeth

Enjoy the weekend!

Mrs. Hock

Week #1 August 27-30, 2019

Hello Families,
Here are a few highlights from our first amazing week together!  Our class is fun, energetic and enjoys learning new things.  We're off to a great start and have made progress each day.  Did your child tell you I called Mrs. Gilmore, Mrs. Scott and Mr. Coon to brag about them?  Did your child tell you we earned over 200 Marky Marks in our first four days?  Did your child tell you we celebrate our learning, sharing and mistakes with musical cards, chants and by "knocking my shoes off"?

We learned...

• our classmates' names.
• our classroom procedures for: signing up for lunch, Morning Meeting, using table baskets and lining up to leave our room.
• our school procedure for fire drills.

We experienced...

• guided discovery of our playground and math manipulatives.
• Wednesday Surprise to share how we will celebrate birthdays in our class.
• giving and receiving feedback as we wrote our best names and drew our best person.
• quick images and the game NIM during math.
• our uniqueness and positive character trait to our class by listening to There's Only One You.
• our first whole school assembly to welcome us to the new school year.

Other things to ask your child about this week:

• First Day Jitters
• If I Built a School
• our first week of creative arts classes

Enjoy the holiday weekend with your family!

Mrs. Hock 

Soaring Into a New Year!

Welcome back and welcome to 2nd grade!
I am looking forward to meeting everyone at Open House on Monday, August 26 between 1:30-3:00.  We will have a wonderful week getting to know each other, and building our routines and community.
Ready for lift-off...
Mrs. Hock

It's a Wrap!
Week #38 June 10-14

We wrapped up our amazing school year this week.  We celebrated our time together with many of our favorite activities, and we completed our science unit by planting our pollinator garden.  Here are some pictures of that process along with a 22 second elapsed time video clip of the 90 minutes it took 60 students to actually get over 220 plants in the ground!  Also, check out the "student stories" feature on the SBSD main webpage for a share of our plant work written by our district's blogger, Corey Burdick.
https://www.sbschools.net/Page/1523

Along with a variety of student work that came home this week, you may have also seen a few resources for your students to use this summer including:

• sign in information for Coding from Mrs. Springer
• Barnes & Noble book log entry form and summer reading brochure
• summer math calendars to solve a problem daily in July & August

Memory Books.  The students were always excited to add a page to their memory books whenever a special event happened this year.  However, when we shared our compliment cards with each other this week, they were also appreciative, sappy, and wished for more pages!  I do hope they treasure those...speaking of treasure, each student also came home today with a box containing 2 treasures from me.  I hope they find and collect treasures from their summer fun to add to this memento.

Thank you very much for your support this year.  Thank you also for your generous end-of-the-year gifts and thoughtful notes of gratitude.  Your children are incredible, and I look forward to watching them grow and hearing about their future work and accomplishments.  Please know that I am always here for them. 

All my best,

Mrs. Hock