TW Food Drive - TOMORROW LAST DAY TO BRING IN ITEMS

Wednesday, Dec. 18th  before lunch is the last opportunity to help us make a difference by bringing in non-perishable food items for the food drive.  Please help us to make this season memorable for families in need.

Ricketts Math - Interactive Website for Volume of a Triangular Prism

Use your knowledge on how to calculate the volume of a triangular prism to complete the questions on the website.  Make sure to show your calculations clearly on paper BEFORE you answer the question electronically so that the website will accurately tabulate your success rate.

Interactive Website for Volume of a Triangular Prism

Ricketts Homeroom Class - Gift Game on Thursday, Dec. 19th

The students in Ms. Ricketts homeroom class will host a "Gift Game" activity for all interested in participating.  Each student who will participate is asked to bring in a gift that is wrapped so that it is unidentifiable.  All gifts must be valued at no more than $10.00 and be appropriate for anyone in our homeroom class

During the game all students will be given a number.  In order, students will choose a gift but can also swap with anyone who has previously chosen a gift.  At the end of the game everyone participating will receive a gift. 

Ricketts Language - Spelling Test # 6 Celebrations

Here is this week's spelling list to honour a diversity of celebrations:

Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, Diwali, Summer Solstice, Ramadan, festivities, traditional, feast, religious, Carnival and Chinese New Year

Ricketts Drama - Wexford Variety Show Drama Assignment

The assignment questions are as follows:

1.Choose a particular performance of your choice.  

What was your impression of this performance?

Describe what happened in this performance?

How did the performance evoke ideas, feelings and images for you as an audience member?

2. Choose another performance.

Explain how the performance relates to you as an urban pre-teen / teenager.

3. Which performance did you find the most humourous?  Explain why you found it humourous.

You can e-mail your assignment to:
michelle.ricketts@tdsb.on.ca

Ricketts Language - Visualization and Prediction Reading Test

We have been learning about the reading strategies of visualization and prediction in class.  We understand that effective readers visualize (make a movie in their minds) as they read. This assists a reader to follow the story line and understand the text.  We understand that effective readers make prediction about what they read and use clues from the text to support their predictions.

There will be a test on visualization and prediction on Thursday, Dec. 12th.  You will be given a short story that does not include the ending.  It will be a story from one of the "Chicken Soup" books, similar to the stories we have read in class.

Grade 8 Math - Circles Test and Assignment

You have a test on circles tomorrow, Wednesday. You need to know the following for the test:

• the parts of a circle and how they are related (i.e. radius, diameter)
• how to calculate circumference ( πd )
• how to calculate area ( π x r x r )
• how to construct circles

The assignment that you were given today will assist you in studying and practicing all of the information and skills that you will need for the test.

You are to fill a regular size sheet of paper with a pattern of circles.(They can overlap or not.)

• you must have at least 5 different size circles in your pattern
• you must calculate the total sum of all the circumferences (include your calculations)
• you must calculate the area for each of the 5 sizes of circles that you included
• you should colour the pattern

Ricketts Language - Spelling Test # 5

We have been studying the geometry and measurement strands in math for the past few weeks.  The spelling words this week are as follows:

geometry, measurement, perimeter, surface area, volume, quadrilateral, parallelogram, classification, trapezoid, metric system, centimeter, height

Ricketts Math - Geometry and Measurement Test

There will be a geometry and measurement math test on Tuesday, Dec.10th.  Make sure to review your notes and refer to the pages in the textbook that we have covered in order to properly prepare for the test.

Ricketts Language - Group Magazine Due: Thursday, Dec. 5th

Each group must submit the completed magazine on Thursday, Dec. 5th.  All pages should be completed and demonstrate proper magazine format (no big blank spaces, colour, titles, etc.)

Ricketts Language - Spelling Test # 4 Speeches

We are working on taking our persuasive writing pieces and making them into formal speeches.  We will present to the class.  The words this week are:

formal speech, audience, proper posture, memorize, gesture, alliteration, emphasize, repetition, solution, powerful, confidence and persuade