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Kindergartners' bicycle museum field trip with Irish teacher in NW China's Gansu

STORY: Kindergartners' bicycle museum field trip with Irish teacher in NW China's Gansu DATELINE: April 29, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:34 LOCATION: LANZHOU, China CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the Sanmu Bicycle Museum 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ANTHONY FEIGHERY, Irish teacher 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): BAO XI, Kindergartner 4. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): ZHOU ZIJIE, Kindergartner 5. SOUNDBITE 4 (Chinese): CHAI LIN, Curator, Sanmu Bicycle Museum 6. various of the Sanmu Bicycle Museum STORYLINE: An Irish teacher and his kindergarten students made a field trip to Sanmu Bicycle Museum in northwest China's Gansu recently. Kindergarten students and their Irish teacher are impressed by the museum's huge collection. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ANTHONY FEIGHERY, Irish teacher "I think it's very very interesting both for myself and for the kids. One of the interesting things was that there are bicycles from all over the world here, from Italy, France, the UK, Japan and other countries, so they learn that people use bicycl

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Footballer Hasebe encourages Banda Aceh kids

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Japanese footballer Makoto Hasebe (R) shows kindergartners on the outskirts of Indonesia's Banda Aceh, hit by huge tsunami in December 2004, a message of support from Japanese kindergartners in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, devastated by the 2011 tsunami, in charity work on Dec. 23, 2014.

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Kids enjoy citrus picking in ex-evacuation zone

HIRONO, Japan - Kindergartners take part in picking "mikan" at an orange grove in the Fukushima prefectural town of Hirono on Dec. 15, 2014. The town near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was once designated as an evacuation zone after the 2011 nuclear disaster in the northeastern Japanese prefecture.

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Kids enjoy citrus picking in ex-evacuation zone

HIRONO, Japan - Kindergartners take part in picking "mikan" at an orange grove in the Fukushima prefectural town of Hirono on Dec. 15, 2014. The town was once designated as an evacuation zone after the 2011 nuclear disaster in the northeastern Japanese prefecture. The orange grove resumed fruit picking in 2013 due to progress in decontamination work.

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Kids enjoy play at nuke disaster-hit Fukushima park

HIRONO, Japan - Kindergarten children enjoy new playground equipment at a municipal park in Hirono in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima on Oct. 1, 2014, following the removal of an evacuation order imposed in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. Some 40 kindergartners were invited before the full reopening of the park next spring.

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Kids enjoy new playground tool at Fukushima park

HIRONO, Japan - Kindergarten pupils enjoy playing with a new tool at a municipal park in Hirono in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima on Oct. 1, 2014, following the removal of an evacuation order imposed in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. Some 40 kindergartners were invited before the full reopening of the park next spring.

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Hasebe with kindergartners in tsunami-hit town

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Japan national soccer team captain Makoto Hasebe smiles as a kindergartner shows him his lunch, which contains soccer ball-like rice balls in Minamisanriku town, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on June 30, 2014. Hasebe helped with the reconstruction of the kindergarten following the 2011 tsunami and this was his fourth visit.

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Children plant trees in 2011 quake-hit area

YAMADA, Japan - Nursery school children plant young trees in the 2011 earthquake-hit town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on May 22, 2014. The trees were grown by kindergartners and nursery school children nationwide from the acorns picked up by children in the disaster-stricken areas in the fall of 2012.

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Tree seedlings grown from acorns in Iwate Pref.

YAMADA, Japan - Tree seedlings grown from acorns are photographed in the town of Yamada, Iwate Prefecture, on May 22, 2014. The acorns were picked up by children in Iwate and Miyagi prefectures before being grown by kindergartners and nursery school children nationwide following the March 2011 quake and tsunami.

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Kumamon joins kindergartners in crime-prevention blitz

OSAKA, Japan - Popular mascot Kumamon (back R) created by the Kumamoto prefectural government takes part in a quiz show with kindergartners in a crime-prevention campaign held on April 21, 2014, by the Sonezaki Police Station in Osaka, western Japan.

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Kindergartners enjoy peach flowers in central Japan

KOFU, Japan - Kindergartners view pink peach flowers in a greenhouse in Fuefuki, Yamanashi Prefecture, central Japan, on Feb. 14, 2014. The city's peach flowers are said to bloom earlier than anywhere else in Japan.

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2 children killed as car rams into group of children

SAITAMA, Japan - Two children were killed when a car (R, front) rammed into a group of kindergartners on Sept. 25 on a street in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture.

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People offer flowers for victimized kindergartners

NAGAHAMA, Japan - People offer flowers on Feb. 18 at the site where a 5-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy were fatally stabbed by a 34-year-old woman the previous day as she was taking them to kindergarten in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture.

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'Golden' frog popular with children

KIMITSU, Japan - A frog with a golden head and legs is shown to the public Aug. 17 at a museum in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, and is popular with children visiting the museum. The frog was born in June from a tadpole taken by a kindergarten teacher in May from a paddy field and raised by kindergartners.

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'Golden' frog popular with children

KIMITSU, Japan - A frog with a golden head and legs is shown to the public Aug. 17 at a museum in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, and is popular with children visiting the museum. The frog was born in June from a tadpole taken by a kindergarten teacher in May from a paddy field and raised by kindergartners. (Kyodo)

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New Japanese school bldg. in Yangon to meet increased need

Kindergartners play in front of a new Japanese school building in Yangon, the largest city in Myanmar, in May 2015. The number of the students at the school has more than doubled in three years, rising to 159 as of April 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Goblin-mask divers delight kids at aquarium in western Japan

Divers wearing "oni" (goblin) masks play paper-scissors-rock with kindergartners on Jan. 23, 2015, from inside a whale shark tank at the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan in Osaka, western Japan, ahead of the "setsubun" day in early February marking the end of winter according to the old lunar calendar. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Fukushima kindergartners paint mural for Hiroshima peace project

Kindergartners take part in painting a mural showing aspirations for peace on Aug. 4, 2015, in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, hit by the 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power station. The mural will be exhibited later this month at "Kids' Guernica in Hiroshima 2015," a peace project named after Spanish artist Pablo Picasso's mural-sized antiwar painting. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 children killed as car rams into group of children

SAITAMA, Japan - Two children were killed when a car (R, front) rammed into a group of kindergartners on Sept. 25 on a street in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Wake held for slain kindergartners

NAGAHAMA, Japan - Pictures of slain kindergartners -- Wakana Taketomo (L) and Jin Sano (R), both 5 -- are displayed on an altar in a wake held in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, on Feb. 19. The suspect, Zheng Yongshan, was arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing the two as she was driving them to a kindergarten in the city together with her daughter, who attends the same kindergarten. (Kyodo)

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People offer flowers for victimized kindergartners

NAGAHAMA, Japan - People offer flowers on Feb. 18 at the site where a 5-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy were fatally stabbed by a 34-year-old woman the previous day as she was taking them to kindergarten in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture. (Kyodo)

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Footballer Hasebe encourages Banda Aceh kids

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Japanese footballer Makoto Hasebe (R) shows kindergartners on the outskirts of Indonesia's Banda Aceh, hit by huge tsunami in December 2004, a message of support from Japanese kindergartners in the town of Minamisanriku, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, devastated by the 2011 tsunami, in charity work on Dec. 23, 2014. (Kyodo)

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Kids enjoy citrus picking in ex-evacuation zone

HIRONO, Japan - Kindergartners take part in picking "mikan" at an orange grove in the Fukushima prefectural town of Hirono on Dec. 15, 2014. The town was once designated as an evacuation zone after the 2011 nuclear disaster in the northeastern Japanese prefecture. The orange grove resumed fruit picking in 2013 due to progress in decontamination work. (Kyodo)

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Kids enjoy new playground tool at Fukushima park

HIRONO, Japan - Kindergarten pupils enjoy playing with a new tool at a municipal park in Hirono in the northeastern Japan prefecture of Fukushima on Oct. 1, 2014, following the removal of an evacuation order imposed in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident. Some 40 kindergartners were invited before the full reopening of the park next spring. (Kyodo)

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Hasebe with kindergartners in tsunami-hit town

MINAMISANRIKU, Japan - Japan national soccer team captain Makoto Hasebe smiles as a kindergartner shows him his lunch, which contains soccer ball-like rice balls in Minamisanriku town, Miyagi Prefecture, northeastern Japan, on June 30, 2014. Hasebe helped with the reconstruction of the kindergarten following the 2011 tsunami and this was his fourth visit. (Kyodo)

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World Thrift Day

YANTAI, CHINA - OCTOBER 30, 2020 - Kindergartners make dolls out of discarded paper cups and eggshells. Yantai city, Shandong Province, China, October 30, 2020.

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World Thrift Day

YANTAI, CHINA - OCTOBER 30, 2020 - Kindergartners make a toy windmill out of discarded paper cups. Yantai city, Shandong Province, China, October 30, 2020.

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Tulip Fair kicks off in central Japan

Kindergartners view colorful tulips at the annual Tulip Fair in Tonami, Toyama Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast on April 21, 2017, its opening day. About 3 million tulips in around 700 varieties are expected to be in full bloom during the event that runs through May 5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tulip Fair kicks off in central Japan

Kindergartners view colorful tulips at the annual Tulip Fair in Tonami, Toyama Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast on April 21, 2017, its opening day. About 3 million tulips in around 700 varieties are expected to be in full bloom during the event that runs through May 5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tulip Fair kicks off in central Japan

Kindergartners view colorful tulips at the annual Tulip Fair in Tonami, Toyama Prefecture, on the Sea of Japan coast on April 21, 2017, its opening day. About 3 million tulips in around 700 varieties are expected to be in full bloom during the event that runs through May 5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Chinese kindergartners enjoy snow at Tiananmen Square

BEIJING, China - Kindergartners enjoy the snow in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Jan. 7. Snow has fallen for several days in the Chinese capital.