News For Kids

Dolls Made for All Kids Playing with dolls is fun. You can make dolls dance, jump, and fly! One girl loves dolls. And she has a dream. When she was younger, she was sick. She was in the hospital a lot. She met kids with disabilities there. 有一個女孩喜歡玩娃娃，她小時候常常生病跑醫院，在醫院遇到很多有身心障礙的小朋友。 Some kids used wheelchairs. Some had arms without hands. Some had a new leg. Bu...

Tea Leaves Can Clean Water Black tea! Green tea! Bubble tea! Tea shops are everywhere in Taiwan! Many of us drink a lot of tea. Do you? 紅茶、綠茶、珍珠奶茶! 台灣到處都有飲料店，我們喝掉很多茶。 We buy about one billion cups of bubble tea every year in Taiwan. We use lots of tea leaves! What happens to them? 台灣每一年喝掉超過十億杯的珍珠奶茶，用過的茶葉會怎麼處理呢? Almost all tea shops throw awa...

Scarves Warm Hearts Something wonderful happens in cities in Canada and the U.S. every year. It started long ago with a surprise! On a very cold day in a Canadian city, fourteen statues of great heroes… wore scarves?! 每一年冬天，加拿大跟美國很多城市都會發生美妙的事。最開始是很多年前一個寒冷的冬日，加拿大城市的14座偉人雕像，脖子上都圍了圍巾。 The colorful scarves were handmade. Each scarf had a me...

Best Friend Saves Man from Icy Lake Narrator: One snowy winter day, a man and his dog Ruby hiked to a lake. The weather was so cold that the lake water was frozen! They walked on the ice. 一個下雪的日子，一位男子跟他的狗狗Ruby爬山去了一個湖。天氣冷到湖面都結冰了，他們直接走在湖面上。 But then the ice broke! The man fell into the icy water! He couldn't get out! Man: Help! Hello? Help! Please, someo...

Out of Gas But Unstoppable  People love ordering food online*. *Food delivery drivers are busy! In India, one delivery driver uses his scooter to deliver food orders. But one day, it needed gas. He went to the gas station. 人們喜歡線上點餐，讓外送員都很忙碌。印度有一位外送員騎機車送訂單。有一天他的機車需要加油，就去了加油站。 At that time, everyone was worried about gas. Was there enough? Maybe no...

Hermit Crabs Reuse Our Trash Why is that plastic bottle cap moving? Oh! A hermit crab is using it as a shell! 怎麼有塑膠瓶蓋在移動呢? 原來有寄居蟹把它當作外殼! Hermit crabs don't have their own shells. But they need one to live. Most hermit crabs use sea snail shells. But people are seeing hermit crabs using our plastic trash as their shells! They're seeing this all over the world! 寄居蟹沒有自己...

Dog Smells Gas, Saves Owner A dog in the USA saved the lives of his owner and other people. How? He went outside his owner's house. He dug and dug the ground. The dog dug for hours and hours in one place. He made a big hole! 美國有一隻狗救了牠的主人跟其他人的性命。怎麼做到的呢?牠跑到屋外，一直在同一個地方挖洞。 His owner thought that was strange. Her dog didn't dig big holes. Something was wrong!...

Teenager Becomes Lawyer Last year, a teenager became famous. Why? He became the youngest lawyer in California. He was seventeen years old! 去年有一位青少年爆紅了，因為他成為加州最年輕的律師，他才十七歲! Lawyers help people with problems about laws. Laws say what we can and cannot do. Becoming a lawyer isn't easy. There are a lot of laws to study! 律師幫人處理法律問題。要成為一名律師很不容易，要讀...

Helping Kids Sleep Better Sleep is important. People need comfortable beds to sleep well. But some people don't have beds. They don't sleep well. 睡眠很重要。人們需要舒服的床才能睡得好。 Two or three percent of kids in the USA don't have beds. Are you shocked? 美國有百分之二到百分之三的兒童沒有床，是不是讓人嚇一跳! One man in the USA was very shocked. Sleep helps kids do well in school. He wanted...

The Tail of a Whale Tells All Whales are big, beautiful animals. Some of them are as long as three buses! 鯨魚是龐大又美麗的動物，有一些鯨魚跟三輛公車一樣長。 Many people want to see whales. Some of us go on boats to watch them. But nobody knows where and when we can see them. And many times, we see the tail or a very small part. 很多人會坐船賞鯨，但是沒有人知道在哪裡或是什麼時候能見到鯨魚。很多時...

Telling Stories Again and Again and Again Narrator: Everyone has a favorite story. Some people love The Three Little Pigs … Big Bad Wolf: Little pig … I'll blow your house down!!! Little Pig: Oh no! Ahhhh! Narrator: … Some people love the Chinese story about the Monkey King. 大家都有喜歡的故事。有一些人喜歡三隻小豬，也有人喜歡西遊記。 Other people love Cinderella … Prince Charming: Whose shoe is t...

Gachapon's Words from Sounds Gacha gacha! That's fun to say! The sound of the crank on a gachapon machine is called gacha gacha! Gachapon machines are full of small toys. You put money in, you twist the crank, and a plastic pod falls onto the tray. The toy is in the pod! 扭蛋機裡有很多小玩具，只要投幣，轉一下旋轉鈕。一顆塑膠扭蛋就會掉出來，裡面有個玩具。 Gachapon toys are part of a set. There are...

Sunshine Kettle It's spring! The sun is shining. It makes flowers bloom. It makes the weather warmer. Electricity makes TVs and lights work. Fuel makes planes and cars move. What makes the sun shine? 電視跟電燈靠電力運作，飛機跟汽車則依賴燃油推動。那太陽靠著什麼發光呢? The sun is made of many very small things called atoms. These atoms like to bounce around very fast. Sometimes, they hit each othe...

The Mystery Cleaner in the Workshop Kid: I wish … I wish someone would clean my room! Narrator: Some kids dream of never needing to clean their room again. Can this dream come true? 有一些小孩夢想永遠不用清理房間，這夢想有可能實現嗎? Well, a man in Wales is living this dream. He has a workshop. It's a place where he makes or fixes things. His workshop has many small things in it: nuts, bolts, nail...

Cats Are Okay to Have Again in Singapore Cats are great! They have cute meows and quiet purrs. They're small. They can stay indoors 24 hours a day. Cats are good pets! 貓咪不論喵喵叫或是發出呼嚕聲都很可愛，又可以24小時都待在室內。 Lots of people like having cats. But in Singapore, having cats was a problem for many people. These people live in government apartments. Singapore's government makes th...

Very Big Goldfish in Lakes Worry Scientists Goldfish are sooooo cute! People see them and want them! Goldfish are good pets. They're small. They can live in a small fishbowl. They're easy to take care of. 金魚是很好養的寵物，牠們小小的，可以養在小魚缸裡。 But goldfish aren't always small. They can get very big. Now fishermen are finding big goldfish in the Great Lakes in the USA and Canada. 但是金...

The TreeHugging World Championships There's a sport for everyone! If you're fast, you can run. If you're strong, you can lift weights. If you're creative and love nature, you can hug a tree! 如果你速度夠快，可以去賽跑。力氣夠大，可以去舉重。現在有個適合大家的運動，如果你很有創意又熱愛大自然，你可以去抱樹。 Finland is a country in northern Europe. It's full of trees. More than 70% of Finland is for...

Check-Ins at the Seahorse Hotel A special fish called a seahorse lives in the ocean. Its head looks like a horse's head. But it's much smaller than a horse! 住在海裡的海馬，頭都看起來像馬，但比馬小非常多。 Seahorses live under rocks and inside corals. But sometimes boats bump into their homes. Sometimes big storms blow their homes away! Then hungry ocean animals can find them. 海馬住在石頭底下或珊...

Company Thanks Dead Pests **Voice: *Ewww, gross! *gasp** What did I do?! I’M SORRY, COCKROACH!!! Narrator: Most people aren't sad about killing these big brown bugs! Cockroaches are pests. Mosquitoes, flies, and other bugs are pests too. Pests carry lots of germs and diseases. Pests can make you very sick. 蟑螂、蚊子跟蒼蠅等等都是害蟲。牠們身上有很多細菌跟病毒讓人生病。 Pesticides are special spra...

K*News for Kids 文字檔 (國小) ________________________________ Scientists found a new kind of giant worm. They were thirty centimeters long! They swam in the ocean more than five hundred million years ago. Many ocean animals were small then. These giant worms ate lots and lots of them! 科學家找到一種新的巨大蠕蟲。牠們長30公分，生活在5億多年前的大海，當時的海生動物都很小，這些巨大蠕蟲掠食其他動物。...

A Fight About Pineapple Pizza in Italy Something's in the oven. Let's guess what it is. It's round. The bottom is bread. On top, there's cheese, olive oil, basil… 烤箱裡是什麼? 我們來猜猜看，圓的，下面是麵包，有起司、橄欖油跟羅勒。 It's a pizza! What!? There are a lot of pineapple slices on the pizza too!? But there's no tomato sauce or ham! This isn't a Hawaiian pizza. It's a new kind of pineappl...

Christmas Leftovers at the Zoo There's exciting news at the zoo! Guess what happened after Christmas! The holiday fun didn't end! In Germany, the Berlin Zoo had a special treat for their animals. The treat was… Christmas trees! 聖誕節過後，德國柏林動物園有特別的禮物要給園區的動物，那就是聖誕樹! The elephants stepped on the trees. Then they pulled off the tree branches with their long trunks. They...

Stolen and Found Bikes In a city in Iceland, many people love cycling. But something bad was happening. Some people were stealing bikes! This worried bicycle owners. Some people stopped using their bikes. 冰島有個城市，居民都愛騎單車，但是單車容易失竊，一些人就不再騎單車了。 One man loves biking. He wanted more people to love it too. So he was very angry. He looked for the stolen bicycles. They we...

A Red Panda for Taipei Zoo  Taipei Zoo has a new animal from Japan! He's small. He's a fire-colored ball of fur. He's very cute and fluffy! 台北市動物園迎接日本來的新動物。牠很可愛還有蓬鬆的火紅色的毛。 His name is Mirai. He's a red panda! Mirai is four years old. A four-year-old human is a child, but Mirai is not a child. Red pandas live about ten to twelve years. Mirai is a young adult. He’s her...

A Festival for People Born on Leap Day Twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine… Wait, there are twenty-nine days this February! Today is a leap day! 今年二月有二十九天，今天是閏日。 Can you wait to have your birthday once every four years? Well, about five million people around the world were born on a leap day. These people are called leaplings. 你能等四年才過一次生日嗎? 全世界差不多有500萬人在閏...