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Did you know that horses wear shoes? They're not shoes like the ones you and I wear. Our shoes are soft and light, and are made of things like leather or rubber. A horse's shoes are hard and heavy. They're made of metal! 馬也會穿鞋子，只是跟我們的不太一樣。我們的鞋子是用皮革跟橡膠做的，又輕又軟，馬的鞋子是用金屬做的，很硬又很重！ We keep shoes on our feet by tying them with shoelaces. But we keep...

Aiyah! Go away, mosquitoes! I've only been outside for 5 minutes and I already have 5 mosquito bites! 才五分鐘，我就被蚊子叮了五個包！ I always tell people that mosquitoes like to bite me more than other people, and people don't believe me. But, it's true! Scientists found out mosquitoes do like some people more than others. 科學家說，蚊子真的特別喜歡叮某一些人。 Mosquitoes can actually see the ai...

Hi students, do you know what most students at school are thinking about in the morning? Of course, it's lunchtime! 你知道學生早上到學校之後，都在想甚麼呢？當然是午餐要吃甚麼呢！ Every day, hungry students need to eat. Who makes your lunch? Maybe your family makes it, or maybe the school's cook. 肚子餓的學生每天都得吃飯，可是是誰做他們的午餐？ In some elementary schools, children only eat fast foo...

I love fresh vegetables. Especially lettuce, it's so crunchy and green. 我喜歡新鮮蔬菜，尤其是萵苣。 Fresh lettuce is best. We all want newly picked lettuce. 新鮮的萵苣最棒了。 That means the lettuce farm should be close to the market. In fact, the freshest lettuce is the kind you pick with your own hands. 所以萵苣農場最好要靠近超市。如果能親手摘就更新鮮了。 So what if the lettuce grew right insid...

I love walking in the fresh open air. One day I want to go hiking in Mexico! Last month, Mexico opened their first cross-county hiking trail. 有一天，我想要去墨西哥，因為上個月，他們開放了第一條越野步道。 The trail has many things to see. It starts in Merida. That's a hot city. The walk goes on for more than one hundred kilometers! 步道的起點在梅里達，全程要走超過一百多公里！ The trail then goes i...

Today, we are congratulating Nicole Mann, the first Native American to go to space! 恭喜 Nicole 成為第一個去外太空的美國原住民！ "Native Americans'" are the first people who ever lived in North America. We have native people here in Taiwan too! In English, they are called "indigenous". In Chinese, they are called "Yuan Zhu Min." A long time ago, there were many, many indigenous people here, but to...

Today, I want to talk about dogs. Dogs can smell really well. They can smell at least 10,000 times better than people! 狗狗的嗅覺比人類好一千倍！ Dogs can smell lots of things that humans can't. There are dogs at airports. They use their noses to smell things that people shouldn't be carrying onto airplanes, which helps to keep everyone safe. 機場就會有狗狗去聞聞看，有沒有人帶違法的東西上飛機。 Th...

It's World Kindness Day today! Happy World Kindness Day everyone! Yes, there is a day that celebrates being kind. It's important to be kind to others. 今天是世界慈善日！對別人友善很重要。 I want to tell you about a very kind boy. His name is Isaac Winfield, and he lives in England. Isaac has a nice life in England. But he worries about people who don't have much money. Some families don't have eno...

A ring is a special gift. You can wear it on your hand, where you will always see it. Then, you will always remember the person who gave it to you. You will know that they care about you. 看著戴在手上的戒指，你永遠都會記得是誰送你的。 How would you feel if you lost your ring? You would be sad. 但如果戒指不見了呢？應該很難過吧！ That's how Dave felt when he lost his ring. Dave lives in England. Fif...

Ahhh, the beach is so nice. The sun, the ocean, the shoes… What? Shoes? Why are there shoes floating in the water? 海裡怎麼會有鞋子飄著呢？ How can they be floating in the ocean for so long, and still look almost new??! 鞋子為甚麼能在海上漂這麼久，看起來還這麼新？ It's because they are not biodegradable! "Biodegradable" means something that turns back into nature after time. 因為它不能被生物分解！...

Hi students, do you like camping? I like camping. You can hear the sounds of nature. Sleeping outside in a tent can be fun. 你們喜歡露營嗎？露營很有趣，你可以聽到大自然的聲音。 But how long do people usually sleep in a tent? Maybe a night or two, or a week, right? How about a year? 通常你會在帳棚裡面睡一兩個晚上或是一個禮拜，但在帳篷裡面睡一年會是甚麼感覺呢？ Well, one kid named Ashley did that. Y...

Hi students, have you seen your mommy or daddy use an ATM? You put your bank card inside, then type in your code. Then, you can get money from the machine! 你有看過爸爸媽媽用提款機嗎？把卡片插進去，再打密碼，就可以把錢領出來！ ATMs are very convenient, and it's super easy to find an ATM in Taiwan. But I can think of some places in Taiwan where you probably can't find an ATM… like, on top of a moun...

What does your gym teacher teach you? How to jump? How to run? But, does your gym teacher teach you how to climb trees like a monkey? 你們的體育老師會教你像猴子一樣爬樹嗎？ Maybe this idea sounds silly to you, but there are people in a city in Spain who go to a monkey tree-climbing class! 你也許覺得這個很傻，但是在西班牙一個城市，有人跑去上猴子爬樹課！ The teacher shows the students how to climb t...

Tomorrow is Guy Fawkes Night, it's a great holiday in the U.K. They have big fires and everyone sings and dances! Then, they watch awesome fireworks! It even has its own rhyme… 明天在英國是一個很重要的節日，會有營火、煙火秀，它還有一句俗語： "Remember, remember, The fifth of November." It all started long ago, when England had a king. Some people, who did not like the king, made a plot to kill him...

There are seven continents in the world. Do you remember their names? 世界上有七大洲，你記得是哪一些嗎？ Hmmm… let me see… Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, South America… Oh! And the super cold one where penguins live is Antarctica! 有亞洲、非洲、大洋洲、歐洲、北美洲、南美洲… 還有… 有企鵝那個超冷的南極洲！ And, did you know the seven continents used to be one super big continent? 那...

Guess what? Today is "Eating Healthy Day"! Yes, there is a day for eating healthy! 今天是健康飲食日！ There are lots of ways to eat healthy. Vegetables and fruits are great. 你可以多吃蔬菜水果。 Another good way is to drink less soda. Soda has a lot of sugar. Fruit juices, like orange juice and apple juice, also have lots and lots of sugar. 要少喝汽水或果汁，裡面都有很多糖。 And sugar is really ba...

Hi students! Do you like to walk barefoot? It's nice to walk with no shoes and socks in your home. 你喜歡打赤腳走路嗎？在室內打赤腳很舒服！ But what about walking barefoot outside? Today, I want to tell you about a man who walks barefoot outside a lot. He walked with no shoes or socks for over a year! 有一個人，整整一年打赤腳上街！ George Woodville lives in England. One day, he threw all his shoes...

BOO! It's Halloween… MWA-HA-HA-HA-HA! What do you think of when you hear the word "Halloween?" Maybe you think of ghosts. Or, maybe you think of bats, or witches. 聽到萬聖節，你想到甚麼呢？鬼、蝙蝠，還是巫婆？ Maybe you also think about pumpkins… Today, I want to tell you about a really interesting pumpkin. 我今天想要講一個南瓜的故事。 This is not an ordinary pumpkin. It is a huge pumpkin. It weig...

Hi students! Today I want to talk about asteroids. An asteroid is a big rock in space. 我們今天來聊聊小行星！ Scientists worry that an asteroid might hit Earth in the future. What would happen if an asteroid did hit Earth? If it were big enough, it would cause lots of trouble! 學家擔心小行星未來會撞到地球。如果小行星太大，我們就有麻煩了！ Remember the dinosaurs? Scientists think an asteroid hit th...

Have you ever found something in the ground? Maybe you have found some cool rocks, or some coins. What if you found an animal from thousands of years ago? 如果你在地底下發現了幾千年前的動物，怎麼辦呢？ That's what happened in Canada. A worker was digging a hole in the ground. He was looking for gold. Instead, he found some kind of animal! In fact, it was a baby mammoth. 加拿大就有一個工人，挖洞想...

3… 2… 1… Lift off! Yep! Another rocket is going into space! Did you know that humans have been putting rockets into space for about 65 years? We send rockets into space, but many times, after they go up, pieces of them never come back down! We call these things "space junk." 很多火箭飛出去後，火箭的某一些部份永遠不會回來，變成了太空垃圾。 Space junk is a big problem - one of these pieces could hit...

Oh… hi there. I was just sleeping. I must have been sleeping very deeply. Could you tell? Sometimes you can see if a person is sleeping deeply just by how their eyes move. If a person is asleep, and their eyes are moving quickly behind their eyelids, that means they are sleeping very deeply. 如果有人睡得很熟，他的眼睛就會在眼皮下動得很快。 This is called REM sleep, which stands for "rapid eye move...

I finally did it! After many, many tries, I finally flew my toy plane all around the park. And I did it all by myself! 我讓我的玩具飛機在公園飛了一圈！ It can be very difficult to control a toy airplane, especially when there is wind! When the wind blowing too hard, I crash the toy plane a lot! 玩具飛機很難控制，風太大的時候常常墜機！ But you know what's even harder than flying a toy airplane arou...

Hi students! Today I'm gonna start with a joke… are you ready? Why can't elephants use computers? Because they are afraid of the mouse! Do you get it? 你懂嗎？ "Mouse" has two meanings. It can mean a small animal, but it also means a computer mouse! Mouse 有兩個意思，老鼠跟滑鼠！ If you are a human, you should be able to understand that joke. But for a robot, a joke like that is super hard to unde...

Hi students! You guys know that bees are important, right? They help plants grow. Butterflies also help plants grow. If we didn't have bees and butterflies, we wouldn't grow as much food. The world would be in big trouble then. 蝴蝶跟蜜蜂會幫忙授粉，沒有牠們，就種不出足夠的食物。這樣世界就糟糕了！ But there are fewer bees and butterflies now. One reason is that cities are growing. 但蜜蜂跟蝴蝶越來...