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Episode 5 of the podcast is available now! Now that we are all experts on Japan, we have included some awesome reports on Japanese food, culture, homes, transport and language.

The show also contains a great report on meerkats, some cool jokes, a special segment for our mothers and an interview with Roger Hayden from the Fremantle Dockers football team.

Be sure to visit www.podkids.com.au or you can borrow an iPod. Parents should just write a short note in their child’s diary confirming that they are happy for their child to take the iPod home.

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Learn about our imaginary trip to New York City in the latest Room 3 Update (Issue 6 of 2006).

The Room 3 Update is saved in Acrobat (pdf) format. If you have trouble reading it, you may need to download the free Acrobat reader.

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Christine:

Hello. This is Animal Helper, and I just want to let you know who you will hear, and what you will be hearing about. I'm Christine and the other people you will be hearing from are Trent, Corinne and Corey. This time on Animal Helper, our topic is meerkats. I hope you enjoy it.

Corinne:

Hi I am Corinne. I am going to give you an informative brief on meerkats. Meerkats live in south Africa, mostly in the Kalahari Desert. Their cousins are called the mongoose. Two of the meerkat's predators are foxes and wildcats.

Meerkats are born with little hair not full coats and their eyes are closed. Meerkats enjoy eating scorpions from their biome. Meerkats are sometimes taken out of their biome and put into enclosures but only for two reasons: they may be injured or orphaned.

Please take care of them. They are so beautiful, it would be such a shame for them to be endangered.

Trent:

Meerkats get killed and tortured. They stand up and watch for leopards, because leopards are really mean predators. They dig tunnels to hide from predators. They sound an alarm to warn that a predator is coming. They live about 12 to 14 years.

Corey:

Hello. My name is Corey and the segment I am writing about is what meerkats eat. Meerkats eat bugs and other kinds of insects like beetles or worms. Meerkats also eat grass and scorpions. Wow! Meerkats eat alot.

Christine:

Goodbye. I hope you enjoyed this Animal Helper. I hope you now know alot about meerkats. Next time, tune in for Animal Helper. From all the animal helpers here, check out the cool website www.meerkats.com.

(Photo taken by Mr Fuller at Perth Zoo)

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Hello. I am Corinne. Trent will be talking about bedrooms. Racheal-Lee will be doing the outro for our segment. Cameron will be talking about the way Japanese homes are built. I will be talking about furniture. Enjoy.

Now, I bet you're wondering what our topic is..... It is Japanese homes!

Hello. I am Trent. I will be talking about bedrooms in Japan. Their doors are sliding doors. You have to slide the doors to open them. When they enter their rooms, they take off their shoes. Bedbugs are dangerous. They bite you in your sleep!!

Hello. I am Cameron. I will be talking about how the Japanese built their homes (in the olden days). The Japanese built their homes out of solid wood. They had wells inside their homes to provide water. Another fact is that they built their doors more solidly than we build our doors.

You can find more facts on Kids Web Japan.

In cold times in Japan, people use a heated table called 'kotashu'. Their mats are called 'tatami'. (It is a straw mat). When they go to eat their daily meals at a kotashu table, they must sit on a cushion called 'tataku'.

Goodnight everyone. We hope you enjoyed our segment, because we sure loved telling you about it. Keep listening to the other segments!

Photo by Chris Colvard for openphoto.net (creative commons licence).

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Hello. This is 'Boy Stuff Girl Stuff'. Our group is made up of Tayla, Levi, Mathew M and me Christine. You will be learning things about Japan and the way they get around.

They have a very fast train called the bullet train, but I can't say too much because Mathew will explain all that.

We will begin with Mathew talking about the AMAZING bullet train. Take it away Mathew!

Bullet trains are the fastest trains in the world. Did you know that bullet trains can travel 275 km / hour.

Japan is very proud of its high-speed train system, the Shikansen, or bullet train. It is known and admired throughout the world. It transports large numbers of people to faraway destinations quickly and safely.

When did this train system come into being? The first trains began rolling in Japan in 1872. The first bullet train was made in 1964 for the Olympic Games.

The train goes for about 27,400 km or about two-thirds of the way around the world.

Thankyou for listening to 'Boy Stuff Girl Stuff'. Please listen to us next time. We hope you have learnt alot. Next time, when you are in Japan, go on all the things we told you. Go on the bullet train. It is fun.

Thankyou very much.

(Photo by Shibainu ---- creative commons licence).

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Hello. This is the AC / DC group. You will be listening to Paige, Tyrin, Kane and Amelia. We are talking about people in Japan.

There are 8 million people in Tokyo, and there are 126 million people in Tokyo so it is really crowded in Japan. Tokyo is one of the biggest cities in the world.

People are very crowded in Japan because of the mountains. They sit on cushions because they need space. They also have little tables, not big tables, so they can use them for other things. They have very small bathtubs and bathrooms.They have no room for big fat and wide tables or chairs.

The Japanese created Godzilla and Yu-Gi-Oh. Godzilla is a movie, if you didn't know. Last but not least, Yu-Gi-Oh is a card game (for the people that didn't know).

One million people have to travel an hour or more to get to work. Tokyo has more people in shops and offices than in factories. Japan has 11 cities.

People in Japan have different eyes to us. Nearly all people in Japan have black hair. When they have babies, they have a kind of flat nose.

When people go to high school, they have to wear long white socks.

Japanese people love fashion. Japanese wealthy people used to wear a beautiful kimono (robe). They wear kimonos to weddings too.Women in Japan love make-up, but they look really different with it on.

Thank you for listening to the AC / DC group.

Photo by Chris Colvard for openphoto.net.

Posted by Mr Fuller at 1:42 PM | Permalink

Learn about the Year 4 / 5 class's imaginary journey to Japan in the latest edition of the Room 3 Update (Issue 5 of 2006).

The Room 3 Update is saved in Acrobat (pdf) format. If you have trouble reading it, you may need to download the free Acrobat reader.

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