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August 19, 2011
Coming Attractions: Fourth Grade!
Welcome to fourth grade in Room 209! Enjoy this welcome “trailer” and the introductory post below!
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Posted in Class Updates|By Jon Moss
August 19, 2011
Welcome to Fourth Grade
- Mr. Moss with Suzy Kline, author of the Horrible Harry book series and the Herbie Jones series.
Hello! Welcome to the online home of PGS Room 209. During the school year, I will update this web site regularly with information about activities happening in Room 209, bulletins and news items, current events related to what we’re studying in social studies, online assignments, and much more.
About Me
I graduated from the University of Rhode Island summa cum laude in 2004 and have a degree in Elementary Education and Psychology. I also have a Masters Degree in Educational Technology at Central Connecticut State University‘s Center for Innovation in Teaching and Technology. In addition to my teaching role at Pine Grove School, I am our school’s lead educational technology teacher and work to help teachers integrate technology into their teaching in meaningful and valuable ways.
This will be my eighth year teaching at Pine Grove School. I taught third grade at PGS for five years before moving to fourth grade. While at URI, I taught grades 3, 4, and 5. I have also taught kindergarten, first, and second grade summer school, and I have interned with an elementary school principal in East Hartford. I have a background in experimental research in the field of social psychology, so you’ll probably see my interest in research and statistics come through this year during math lessons!
- Charlie and I after he got his first haircut this summer!
I live locally with my wife, my son (Charlie), and our dog (Rimley). In my spare time, I like to travel to Rhode Island, Boston, or New York City. I also enjoy making movies on my Mac, working on home improvement projects, or just relaxing by cooking, listening to old time radio shows from the 1940s and 50s, reading comic books, or watching the news. I collect old reel to-reel tapes of music, antique or unusual telephones, and all things related to Star Trek.
I enjoy tinkering with my computer and coming up with interesting ways in which I can use technology in the classroom. (You can definitely expect to use computers a lot in Room 209! I enjoy using computers, our class’ SMART Board, and other technologies while teaching.) Of course, I also love watching my favorite sports team, the Boston Red Sox! (Don’t worry Yankees fans, I promise not to be mean!)
It’s going to be a great year in fourth grade. There are so many new things to learn, and there are some really interesting activities coming up! I can’t wait for the new year to begin!
For more information about our class, click “Read the rest of the entry”.
Posted in Class Updates|By Jon Moss
August 16, 2011
Inspector Tymlyn
I hope you’re all having a wonderful summer! I enjoyed teaching a few enrichment courses at PGS in July and just returned from a vacation to see friends and family in New Jersey and Maryland. Fifth grade is right around the corner. I’m sure there’s lots of talk about transitioning to TBS; please accept my best wishes for a pleasant and easy start to the school year!
During the school year, we enjoyed a special treat: R.S.’s dad is an author and gave us the chance to preview the first few chapters of his novel for young adults! As the school year wrapped up, he was kind enough to develop a website that our students could use to continue reading the story online (since we only got through the first few chapters in class). I should have posted this information many weeks ago and apologize for the delay.
Interested readers can continue enjoying the story by visiting http://www.muhre.com/tymlyn. Enter the password: mynd-fynd
Please remember that while the story is available on the web for you to enjoy, it should not be copied off the website where you can read it, nor should it be redistributed. If you have any questions, please email me and I’ll relay them to the author.
Enjoy the last few weeks of the summer!
Posted in Class Updates|By Jon Moss