🎃 Ed Express [096]

👻🎃 Happy Halloween, homeschoolers! 🎃👻 Ed here, your friendly ghost host, ready to conjure up some spooky fun and sprinkle some educational magic into your day! 👻✨ Let's dive into today's hauntingly helpful Ed Express! 🦇

MOTIVATIONAL QUOTE

MATHS
Spooky Sequences and Spine-Chilling Sums! 🦇🧮

Let's delve into some frightfully fun maths challenges with a Halloween twist!

Your Mission:

1. Monster Mash-Up:

   • Imagine you're creating a monster. It has 3 eyes, 4 arms, and 2 legs. If you make 5 monsters, how many eyes, arms, and legs will you need in total?

2. Pumpkin Patch Problems:

   • A farmer has 36 pumpkins. He sells 1/4 of them on Monday and 1/3 of the remaining pumpkins on Tuesday. How many pumpkins does he have left to sell?

3. Trick or Treat Trail:

   • You go trick-or-treating and visit 10 houses. At each house, you get 3 pieces of candy. If you eat 5 pieces on the way home, how many pieces do you have left?

4. Haunted House Dimensions:

   • A haunted house is 12 meters long and 8 meters wide. What is the perimeter of the haunted house?

5. Spooky Spider Web:

   • A spider spins a web with 8 equal sections. If it catches 2 flies in each section, how many flies has it caught in total?

Bonus Challenge:

Create your own spooky maths word problem and share it with us on social media using #EdExpress!

SCIENCE
Eerie Experiments! 🧪👻

Let's explore the spooky side of science with these fun and engaging experiments!

1. Oozing Pumpkin Jack-o'-Lantern:

   • Carve a pumpkin and place a cup of baking soda inside.

   • In a separate container, mix vinegar with red food colouring.

   • Pour the vinegar mixture into the pumpkin and watch the "lava" ooze out!

2. Ghostly Dry Ice Bubbles:

   • (With adult supervision) Fill a bowl with warm water and add a few pieces of dry ice.

   • Dip a cloth in soapy water and run it around the rim of the bowl.

   • Observe the spooky fog and bubbles that form!

3. Dancing Ghosts:

   • Cut out ghost shapes from tissue paper.

   • Rub a balloon on your hair to create static electricity.

   • Hold the balloon near the ghosts and watch them dance and float!

4. Glow-in-the-Dark Slime:

   • Make slime using glue, borax, and water.

   • Add glow-in-the-dark paint or powder to the slime mixture.

   • Turn off the lights and watch your slime glow eerily!

Bonus Challenge:

Research the science behind these spooky effects and share your findings on social media using #EdExpress!

Remember to always have adult supervision when conducting science experiments, especially those involving chemicals or heat.

JOKE
A giggle a day keeps the learning blues away!

Q: What kind of music do mummies listen to?

A: Wrap music!

Ed - Your UK Home Education Companion

Keep exploring, keep learning, and keep having fun!

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