Welcome to Fourth Grade

Hello! Welcome to the online home of PGS Room 209. During the school year, I will update this website with information about activities happening in Room 209, bulletins and news items, current events related to what we’re studying in class, online assignments, and much more.

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!

About Me

I asked my kids, Charlie (entering grade 5) and Caroline (entering grade 2) what I should tell you about myself.  Here’s their report:

• I collect typewriters and try to repair them.
• I have a wonderful dog named Rimley.
• We have a vegetable and herb garden in our backyard.
• We had fun going to the batting cages this summer for some socially-distant baseball.  Even I got a few hits!
• I love Del’s Lemonade!  If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a famous drink in Rhode Island.  It’s like a lemonade slushy, but trust me – it’s unique!
• I enjoy Star Trek – a lot!
• I love math.
• I play the harmonica for fun.
• I enjoy photography.  I even got an honorable mention in a contest once!
• I like visiting historical places, like Philadelphia.
• I enjoy listening to lots of different kinds of music, but I especially like Queen, Billy Joel, The Four Seasons, and more!  We have a record player which we like to use a lot.  I still collect albums.
• I played the trombone for one year when I was in fourth grade, but then I switched to singing for the next decade.
• My favorite multiplication fact is 7×6=42.  (I don’t know why, but it is!)
• I like to build things.
• I always prefer having recess duty to lunch duty.  Even on the coldest days of winter!
• My favorite “extra” part of my job is seeing my former students graduate from Avon High School each spring.
• I love to teach math and science! (But I also really enjoy teaching reading too.  That’s why I like teaching elementary – so I get to teach all the subjects!)

I live locally with my wife, my son (Charlie), our daughter (Caroline), and our dog (Rimley).  In my spare time, I like working on home improvement projects, making things in my woodworking shop (especially using my lathe), finding “good eats” at local farmers’ markets, 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, all sorts of vintage technology, typewriters, antique or unusual telephones, funky ties and tie clips, and all things related to Star Trek.  I have been hoping to learn to play the guitar for a few years, but I haven’t gotten the time to focus on practicing.  Maybe this is the year!  (I do enjoy playing the harmonica, however!)

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 Chromebooks, our class’ SMART Board, and other technologies while teaching.) Of course, I also love cheering on my favorite sports teams: the Boston Red Sox (Don’t worry Yankees fans, I promise not to be mean!), the New Britain Bees, the University of Hartford Hawks basketball teams.

Click “more” to learn more about me and fourth grade!

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Posted in Class Updates|By Jon Moss

Updates coming soon!

The information on this website, such as our class schedule, will be updated in the coming weeks. Thanks for for flexibility while we finalize plans for this unique school year! Trust me – It’s going to be worth the wait. We have a great year coming up!

Posted in Class Updates|By Jon Moss