KPE Episode 104 - "Kapai and the City of Sails"

"Kapai and the City of Sails" by Uncle ANZAC.
Kaleli has been reading this story and Sam is his DJ. Both boys are in Room 17. This story is about the adventures of Kapai as he visits Auckland for the first time with his family. They travel around in a yellow bus, driven by Uncle Slim, and visit some of the tourist spots in Auckland, the City of Sails. At one stage they drive their bus into the sea and it turns into a Magic Yellow Waka and they are able to sail it on the harbour.
Kaleli says, "I liked reading the book. The pictures are really cool. I hope you liked listening to our podcast. Thanks to Sam for helping me with my first podcast."
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KPE Episode 103 - "Little Blue Penguin"

"Little Blue Penguin" by Elaine Power.
Rose from Room 14 has been reading this book and Rasil from Room 18 is her DJ. The story is set in Auckland and is about the adventures of a little blue penguin who is looking for a friend to play with. Of course it looks in all the wrong places before finally discovering another penguin in a cave under a pohutakawa tree.
Rose is in Year 5 and Rasil is in Year 6.
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KPE Episode 102 - "Good Morning Good Night"

"Good Morning Good Night" by Erin Devlin.
Taiapa and Leilani from Room 16 present this book in episode 102. It is a story that comes with a CD to listen along to as well - in English and in Maori. The story is told through the eyes of a young kiwi bird. Little Kiwi is finding his food and playing lots of fun games- but he doesn't realise that his 'daytime' is night-time for most of his friends! This is a rhyming story.
The script for this podcast was written by a group of children from Room 16 and Taiapa and Leilani were selected to present it. They are all starting their podcasting journey with this episode. Look out for more podcasts from them in the future now that they know how easy it is to do!
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KPE Episode 101 - "Watercress Tuna"

"Watercress Tuna and the Children of Champion Street by Patricia Grace.
This episode was podcast by Leander and Brennah from Room 14.
In this story an unusual tuna with a magic throat leaps out of his stream and visits a number of children in Champion Street in Wellington. As he visits each house he gives a child and article of clothing for dancing or a musical instrument. Then the children all come out onto the street and dance together with the tuna.
Tuna is the Maori word for eel.
Leander says this was an interesting book because the tuna gives the children things from their own culture. We had to find out a lot about different cultures to make this podcast. Luckily we had people in our school from most of the cultures in the story and they helped us. The rest we looked up on Google.
We hope you enjoy this story too.

KPE - Celebrating 100 Episodes

KPE Episode 100 - "Down in the Dump With Dinsmore" by Margaret Mahy

This is a big day for KPE because we have come a long way since August 2005 - and we have read a lot of books! When we first started out we hardly knew what podcasting was and now we are experts! Go Pt England!
In this episode Lorenz tells us about "Down in the Dump With Dinsmore" and Rakai has his first venture into podcasting as the DJ. Dinsmore, the hero of this story, loves exploring the great merry-go-round of the world. It is such an interesting place! But his parents don't agree and his school principal complains. Nobody, it seems, wants to know about the dump. Except Dinsmore - and he discovers some interesting things at the dump - including things his principal didn't want discovered...
Lorenz says; "I really enjoyed reading it because just like my moral says (in the podcast) it doesn't matter what you are like on the outside, it's what's on the inside that counts. I also learnt that when you explore lots of different places you find things that are interesting."
Today was also a big day for the school community because there was an article in the NZ Herald about our podcasters and Lorenz had his photo there, with Braxton, and he was interviewed by the reporter.
This is what he writes about that experience; " My Mum and Dad will be very proud of me for being in the paper. Just from telling people about podcasting got me into this! And by doing podcasts I'm not shy anymore to go in front of the school to do something..."

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KPE Episode 99 - " The Day I Met a Princess"

" The Day I Met a Princess" by Tommy Wilson and Michele A'Court
Tamika from Room 16 read this book and her DJ for the podcast was Sarah from Room 18. This book is based on the true experience of Susan Tane. As a young girl she met Princess Diana during the Royal Tour of New Zealand in 1983. The story shares her excitement as she prepares to meet a real princess, the thrill of the moment and the lasting gift it leaves her with.
Tamika says " I enjoyed reading this book because I learnt how nice Princess Diana was and that everyone missed her when she died..."

KPE Episode 98 - "The Dentist's Promise" by Margaret Mahy

"The Dentist's Promise" by Margaret Mahy
Crystal brings us this episode of KPE as her final podcast before she leaves us to return to live in the Solomon Islands with her family. Falealoa interviews her about the story and farewells her from Room 17 and Pt England School.
This highly entertaining story sounds like a romance for young girls, but is far too silly to be part of that genre. The girls really enjoyed reading this book and chatting about it while creating this podcast. They are sure you will like it too!

Falealoa and Crystal

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KPE Episode 97 -"Evil Fred" by Kylie Begg

"Evil Fred" by Kylie Begg
Elizabeth from Room 18 has read this story about the truly awful Rancid family and Sharon Rose is her DJ. The Rancid family are awful.They are probably the meanest, most disgusting bunch of people you are ever likely to meet. One of their favourite pastimes is to lean out their upstairs window and pelt unwary passers-by with mouldy sardines and snotballs. When a grubby bundle of rags is left on their doormat it turns out to be a tiny, sleeping puppy. Immediately, the Rancids plan a future of violence, havoc and destruction for the little dog they name Evil Fred. Will Evil Fred live up to his name, or will his doggy nature lead him in another direction?
Tell us what you think of this story.

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KPE Episode 96 - "The Banjo Man" by Ron Bacon

"The Banjo Man"

Pheonix from Room 16 has been reading this book and he asked Folau to be his DJ. This beautifully illustrated picture book tells the story of the music played by a travelling minstrel. In it we are introduced to the sounds of the banjo woven through the pages. Both boys are in Year 5. Pheonix is becoming quite the professional podcaster and it is good to see him encouraging a classmate to collaborate with him for the first time.

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KPE Episode 95 -"Possums2U" by Vince Ford

Mele V from Room 17 has been reading this book and Mele T, another Year 6 student, interviews her. The stories of Vince Ford are great favourites and in this episode we see some familiar characters back again. This time they are making money in the holidays trapping possums. And this couldn't possibly happen without a lot of adventures and excitement along the way.... When Davin hears about earning money trapping possums, the gang organise a camp way out on the boundary beside the river, where they can set their traps. In spite of their planning, the possum trapping venture doesn't go the way they hoped. They're told a 1080 poison drop will take place across the river from their camp. Then the rain starts, and becomes a downpour causing a landslide that blocks their way out. That's when they meet up with Oil Harnett and his brother, Scuz.

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