Good Morning

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Today's topics: the jumping spiders filmed sleeping upside down, with twitching legs and flickering eyes that look just like dream sleep; on this day in 1904 the New York subway opened - the mayor who would not stop driving, and why London's Underground is the oldest in the world; Theodore Roosevelt's birthday and the true story of how the teddy bear got its name; Word Power: diurnal and inaugural; Number Ninja adding and taking away; and a riddle with a head and a tail.

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Today's topics: the students in Serbia who formed their own list of candidates and won the election, and what it means to concede; the Hunter's Moon, why low moons look enormous, and the mirrors Apollo astronauts left behind; on this day in 1825 the Erie Canal opened - how locks lift boats uphill and the mules that pulled them; Word Power: concede and lunar; Number Ninja times tables; a prickly riddle; and a joke that is out of this world.

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Today's topics: a special Sunday half-term episode - why the clocks went back (William Willett and The Waste of Daylight), spring forward fall back and Double Summer Time; Word Power: deciduous and hibernation; hockey facts from ancient Egypt to the Olympics and the D rule; why leaves change colour; squirrels, conkers and the mushroom rule; Number Ninja adding and taking away; a clock riddle; and a dribbly hockey joke.

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Today's topics: a special Saturday half-term episode - Word Power: meteor and sportsmanship; handling first-tournament butterflies, fair play and the reset routine; the Orionid meteor shower from Halley's Comet and how to spot a shooting star this week; SpaceX's plan to catch both halves of the biggest rocket ever built; United Nations Day, 24 October 1945; the axolotl that can judge sizes in complete darkness; Number Ninja times-tables special; Riddle Time; and a fishy tennis joke.

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Morning run to school - the last one before half term. Today's topics: why we carve pumpkins at Halloween - the Irish tale of Stingy Jack and his turnip lantern, and how pumpkins took over in America; surprising pumpkin facts; brand-new science news about bat mothers who know their baby's voice among thousands; Word Power (superstition and harvest); a mixed Number Ninja round; a mushroom riddle; our big Friday recap and a pumpkin joke.

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Today: What is democracy? - The King vs the Prime Minister - Word Power: laureate & curiosity - Number Ninja: times tables - Riddle Time - False autumn: why trees shed their leaves early

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Morning Run to school. Today's topics: The Nobel Prizes - what a Nobel Prize is and how dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel started them; this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay; the Nobel Medicine Prize and the tiny pond algae behind optogenetics (switching brain cells on and off with light); and why a rare kind of river, found almost only in England, had a hard summer. Plus two riddles, takeaway maths, Word Power (laureate and curiosity) and a dinosaur joke.