Season 9 of Hi-5 Australia premiered in 2007. It consists of 45 episodes. This is the ninth season of the first generation.
Overview
Join your favorite Hi-5 friends in a brand new adventure as they welcome you - it's the place to be... and it's where dreams really can come true![1]
Cast
Presenters
Characters
Special Guest Cast
Songs & Themes
Episodes
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No. In Season
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Image
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Title
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Song of the Week
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Release Date
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Production Code
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| 346
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1
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Babies
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Around the World
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June 11, 2007
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9x01
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| Kathleen announces her pregnancy and explores size, shapes and fractions (squares, triangles, halves and quarters) when she practices nappy folding. Meanwhile, Jup Jup brings presents for the baby and plays the attention-seeking toddler. Kathleen also introduces her friend Sun and asks her to mind the puzzles space while she's away. Nathan works out how to turn a Mexican Rebozo blanket into a baby[2]
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| 347
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2
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Birthdays
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Around the World
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June 12, 2007
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9x02
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| Chats wants to send a Happy Birthday message to babies around the world. She and Kellie imagine flying around the world in a biplane, wishing Happy Birthday to all the new babies in a variety of languages
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| 348
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3
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First Day of School
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Around the World
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June 13, 2007
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9x03
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| Nathan makes and decorates a German 'schultuete' for a friend's first day of school and fills it with treats. Sun pretends it's her first day of school in Alaska. Jup Jup pretends to be a moose. Charli is a giant Schultuete who is nervous about her first day at school.
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| 349
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4
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Meals
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Around the World
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June 14, 2007
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9x04
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| Chats has been cooking. Kellie helps her use descriptive words to turn dishes from the unappetizing to the irresistible. Charli uses her facial expressions to describe different tastes and smells. She also makes a Greek salad with real ingredients. Nathan packs a healthy Greek lunch for Tim to take to the park.
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| 350
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5
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Environment / Animals
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Around the World
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June 15, 2007
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9x05
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| Nathan Toucan explores space, as he tries to remember something important he has to do. Charli does the hare hop and the wallaby hop and dances like a rock lobster. Kellie and Chats make each other guess what animals they're pretending to be - a tree kangaroo, a mountain gorilla, a rock lobster and a sheep dog.
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| 351
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6
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Food
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Happy Today
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June 18, 2007
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9x06
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| Chats has created a health drink. Now she needs a jingle. With the help of Hi-5 customers, statements become rhymes and rhymes accumulate to become a song. Charli physicalises the health drink jingle from WP and performs a traditional Japanese dance. Sun explores 2D and 3D shape, counting, patterns and sequencing when she makes sushi rolls.
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| 352
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7
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Move Your Body
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Happy Today
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June 19, 2007
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9x07
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| Nathan wants more challenging exercise so makes some exercise equipment from things in his space. He realises he has created his own gym. Charli pretends to be a weighlifter using a broom as a dumbbell and juggles three coloured silk scarves. Sun explores concepts of shape, weight and counting when she plays some indoor balloon games.
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| 353
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8
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Routines
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Happy Today
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June 20, 2007
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9x08
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| Nathan explores shape recognition (interpreting drawings of figures in action) and spatial awareness when he reprises his Games Show Host in "What's That Action". The actions in the game are daily routines - showering, putting on pyjamas and walking a dog. Charli practises the routine of brushing your teeth and also practices her dance (waltz), co-ordination and balance skills when she dances.
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| 354
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9
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What Makes Me Happy
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Happy Today
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June 21, 2007
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9x09
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| Chats has invented a Happiness Machine. Kellie tries to keep a straight face but with the absurd actions and silly made-up words she is required to say, she can't help but laugh. Charli performs a fun finger action song about feelings and twirls a ribbon lasso and does a country style dance. Nathan gets into karaoke!
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| 355
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10
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Community Carers
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Happy Today
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June 22, 2007
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9x10
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| Sun explores concepts of size, shape, length and relationship when she checks teeth at the animal dental surgery. Jup Jup plays havoc as a tooth fairy that leaves tooth brushes of varying shapes and sizes. Charli is the animal tooth fairy collecting teeth. She explores gross motor and fine motor skills (circular arm actions), stretching and repeated movement when she is a street sweeper.
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| 356
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11
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Body Language
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Stop and Go
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June 25, 2007
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9x11
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| Kellie is making some interesting shapes with her body as she does some stretches. She turns her body into letter shapes and spells the word 'face'. Charli explores gross and fine motor skills and emotion recognition when she plays a game using a mat with different faces on it. She mimes the emotions displayed on the mat using her face and body.
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| 357
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12
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Ways of Saying
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Stop and Go
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June 26, 2007
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9x12
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| Nathan the Weather Man forecasts the Hi-5 weather using symbols on a chart. When the sun comes out Charli decides to hit the surf. She paddles out, balances on the board and tries some surfing tricks. Sun explores concepts of counting and patterns in movement when she makes up a dance to say "I love you". Charli has a precious toy bear.
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| 358
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13
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Technology
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Stop and Go
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June 27, 2007
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9x13
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| Sun explores counting backwards and problem solving when she uses technology to send a message and see if there's anyone in space. With Jup Jup's help she lands in Jupland. Charli mimes different modes of communication to a song - mail, telephone, email and hand gestures. She also becomes a futuristic dancing robot.
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| 359
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14
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Animals
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Stop and Go
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June 28, 2007
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9x14
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| Nathan explores levels, space (confined vs open space) and animal and environmental shapes when he makes himself a lion's den and dresses as a lion. Charli practices the 'lion' and 'cat' yoga stretches and does a silly, high energy banana dance. Sun pretends to be a big gorilla showing a little gorilla how to do gorilla talk.
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| 360
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15
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The Arts
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Stop and Go
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June 29, 2007
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9x15
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| Sun makes a butterfly mobile to say 'thank you' to her mother. Charli pretends to be a big pelican and creates two different sculptures from clay. Nathan sets up a Hi-5 sculpture exhibition. He tries to interpret what each artist is trying to communicate through their art. Tim is a painter who discovers that his easel can play music.
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| 361
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16
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Creatures and Things in Nature
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Wow!
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July 2, 2007
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9x16
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| Chats' hot water system is broken. In the process of fixing it, she and Kellie go on a fantasy journey exploring underwater hot vents and the amazing creatures to be found there. Charli the plumber attempts to fix a leaking tap and pretends to be a sure-footed mountain goat.
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| 362
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17
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People
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Wow!
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July 3, 2007
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9x17
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| Kellie and Chats imagine life in the goldfields. As Chortling Chester Chatsworth and Crusty Kelvin McKelligan, they search for gold and find a nugget. Charli mimes panning and digging for gold and practises her knitting - a skill taught to her by her nan. Tim the Swiss yodeller yodels a message to his cousin Heidi.
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| 363
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18
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Ideas and Imagination
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Wow!
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July 4, 2007
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9x18
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| Sun is a shoe designer and with Jup Jup's help she makes an amazing pair of shoes. Charli uses a pair of stilt shoes - fantastic, funky feet - to walk and stomp. She also goes prawning at night, wading in the water, spotting with a torch. Nathan sets up a pier and goes fishing.
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| 364
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19
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Places and Buildings
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Wow!
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July 5, 2007
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9x19
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| Sun goes on a bridge climb to experience the amazing view. Sun meets the Nathan twins along the way. They are amazed at the view of Jup Jup in her back pack. Charli and Sun use their bodies to create different bridges over the river. Engineer Kellie builds a pyramid and Pharaoh Chats overstocks it with some bizarre precious possessions.
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| 365
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20
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Bodies
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Wow!
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July 6, 2007
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9x20
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| Tim, a David Attenborough style naturalist, is recording humming sounds in his garden. Charli's tap shoes are decorated as garden creatures - 'garden tappers' - they make tap sounds. She also pretends to be a stick insect on a branch. Kellie has an animal in a box. Chats tries to guess what it is by making animal sounds. In the end it is revealed to be a cricket.
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| 366
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21
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Old Places
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Time Machine
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July 9, 2007
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9x21
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| Nathan is the ranger in a tropical rain forest. He's putting in new signs with the plant names and mixes them up. Charli is a spiky cactus and also pretends to be caught up in lots of sticky situations. She works on getting unstuck. Chats has left something behind in her old box.
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| 367
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22
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People and Animals
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Time Machine
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July 10, 2007
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9x22
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| Nathan is going to a picnic with all his relatives and it's his job to organise some ball games. Charli plays ball with a real dog and dresses up as a woolly mammoth for a woolly mammoth dance. Kellie and Chats imagine what it would be like to be Cave People. Kellie draws a mammoth and she and Chats describe it using fun caveman language.
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| 368
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23
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New Cities and Inventions
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Time Machine
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July 11, 2007
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9x23
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| Sun uses her imagination to go shopping in a magic elevator. Charli gets out of an imaginary elevator and finds herself on different 'action' floors and is sent a baseball bat and hockey stick on the flying message machine. Nathan rigs up a flying fox so he can send messages to Tim.
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| 369
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24
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Treasures
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Time Machine
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July 12, 2007
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9x24
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| Sun pretends to dig for treasure in Ancient Egypt. Jup Jup puts out clues for her to follow. Charli puts on different hats and performs its associated action and dances in a small pair of clogs using her hands then a big pair on her feet. Nathan shows off one of his favourite treasures - his old highland dancing trophy.
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| 370
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25
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Ways of Recording Experience
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Time Machine
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July 13, 2007
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9x25
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| Nathan makes some new portraits of the Hi-5 gang. Charli skips to a skipping rhyme and puts on a giant nose and follows it to her favourite smells. Chats has found a new way of preserving memories - as smells trapped in jars. Kellie smells the samples and a variety of memories are conjured up.
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| 371
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26
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Different Ways to Be Brave
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Strong and Brave
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July 16, 2007
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9x26
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| Chats is frightened by a thunderstorm. Kellie uses some reverse psychology, pretending to be frightened herself. Chats comforts her, chasing away her own fear. Charli remembers being scared of storms when she was young but found that dancing through storm actions empowered her.
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| 372
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27
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First Steps - Give It A Go
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Strong and Brave
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July 17, 2007
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9x27
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| Sun swings on a set of monkey bars. She wants to make it all the way to the end. Jup Jup encourages her with some shiny monkey medals. Charli is a monkey swinging on her hoop. Nathan creates a web-like maze with some long flexible ribbon, then becomes 'web man' and plays an action game, trying to beat the timer. Charli Spider finds her web overcrowded with other spiders.
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| 373
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28
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Adventure
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Strong and Brave
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July 18, 2007
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9x28
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| Nathan is on a travelling adventure around Australia. He canoes through Kakadu and sees a jabiru and a crocodile, then he drives to Uluru and meets an emu. Charli pretends to be a mud crab and then she has fun skidding, sliding and skating in her slippers. Sun goes off on a sailing adventure in search of the mythical slipper fish.
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| 374
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29
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Imagine You Can Do It
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Strong and Brave
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July 19, 2007
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9x29
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| Jup Jup and Doctor Sun help some patients to take their medicine by using their imaginations to overcome their fears. Charli is having a bumpsy daisy, tumble-down day. She keeps hurting herself! She also pretends to be a sumo wrestler. Chats helps Kellie to imagine she can lift heavy objects. Inspired, she has no problem lifting a potted begonia. Tim is trying to master singing a very fast song
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| 375
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30
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Circus
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Strong and Brave
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July 20, 2007
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9x30
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| Nathan creates a circus and a great clown act. Charli clown dances and clowns about with her clown partner. She also does a beautifully skilled routine of circus balances. Chats and Kelli work up a circus act. Chats plays the Ringmaster while Kellie works out her plank walking act. The Chatsellie Sisters Circus is born. Sun is an acrobat in the circus. Her wonderful trick is the rink dive
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| 376
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31
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Changing Looks
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Switching Around
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July 23, 2007
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9x31
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| Nathan wants to do the big switcheroo in his bedroom. He's going to transform it into a sports ground so he can play all the sport he likes when he's there. Charli sets up a mini goal post and plays fingerball using her fingers. She also pretends to be a sail on a ship. Sun is making a cake for her friends adventure party.
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| 377
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32
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Animals and Nature
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Switching Around
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July 24, 2007
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9x32
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| Tim is a squirrel who is about to join the yearly squirrel Morris Dance. He realises he doesn't have any of the traditional music making props and must improvise suitable ones. Charli dances two acorn puppets in a merry dance then tries being an acorn puppet herself. She also does a cherry blossom dance. Sun paints leaves on a tree. She paints green leaves first for summer, then red for autumn.
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| 378
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33
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Energy
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Switching Around
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July 25, 2007
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9x33
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| Sun practices her tae kwan do punches on a punching bag. Jup Jup lowers and raises the bag so Sun switches from punching to kicking and then to a combination. Charli tries some tai chi stretches (squat, hamstring and slide stretches). She also is a deep sea shrimp cleaner. She is busy cleaning the ocean floor.
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| 379
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34
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Moving Places / Houses
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Switching Around
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July 26, 2007
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9x34
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| Kellie the travel agent helps Chats decide on a sunny place for a holiday. After Kellie's descriptions of the desert, a tropical island and the Mediterranean, Chats feels like she's had her holiday after all. Charli struggles to get into a hammock and then swings in it. She also tries out a hoop holiday game.
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| 380
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35
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Try it a Different Way
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Switching Around
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July 27, 2007
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9x35
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| With the help of Chats, Sun and Nathan, Kellie works out a fun new way of saying hello. Charli's feet say hello to each other and then she uses three different sized boxes as different vehicles car/fire engine/bus. Sun has had a friend to visit and they played with transport toys. Now it's time to tidy up.
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| 381
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36
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Indoors / Outdoors
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Love All Around
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July 30, 2007
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9x36
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| Nathan is outdoors in the garden and he discovers a whole lot of gnomes he's never seen before. Charli dances with a pair of cardboard gnome finger puppets and then she uses her sleeping bag to do a camping workout. Kellie and Chats go camping.
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| 382
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37
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Under the Surface
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Love All Around
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July 31, 2007
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9x37
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| Sun is creating a big bug world. When Jup Jup steals her ladybird bug, she becomes a bug detective, but finds only a leaf and a stick. Then inspiration strikes and she realises she can make a leaf insect and a stick insect for her bug world! Charli does a 'bug jive' around the garden and then she performs a gentle yoga stretch called the Swan.
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| 383
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38
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How Does It Work?
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Love All Around
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August 1, 2007
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9x38
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| Kellie sends messages on her jungle drums and Tim replies. Charli tries to interpret some drum messages and then she uses her body to demonstrate shake, whip, jump, whiz, squeeze and spin. Nathan becomes a milk shake maker and an orange whizzer whiz when making drinks at his drink bar. Tim has a fantastic new gadget.
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| 384
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39
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Ways to Get Around
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Love All Around
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August 2, 2007
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9x39
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| Sun is going on a snowboard adventure. Jup Jup's interventions lead her to change the board to a sailboard and then a skateboard. Charli pretends to be a husky dog in the snow pulling a sleigh. She is then a postie delivering the last envelope on her mail run, via a plank bridge and cushion stepping stones. She decides to swim back across the river. Tim is a farmer doing a check of his fences.
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| 385
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40
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I Wonder...
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Love All Around
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August 3, 2007
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9x40
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| Nathan decides to have a 'pyjama day' it leads him to create an adventure on the high seas using household objects and furniture for props. Charli does an active wake-up exercise routine and then pretends to be drawn in by magnetic forces from huge magnets. Sun is experimenting with some magnets. She can use her magnet to push a car along or pull it back.
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| 386
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41
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Special Days
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Party Street
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August 6, 2007
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9x41
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| Sun is preparing cakes for a 'meet your neighbours party', but when Jup Jup switches some of the cakes, Sun has to find a new way to arrange them. Charli plays a game of flower hopscotch and then she has a Charli 'Walk Like This' day. She tries a cowboy, astronaut and silly walk. It's talk like a mouse day and Kellie must do just that.
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| 387
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42
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Us - You And Me
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Party Street
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August 7, 2007
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9x42
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| Nathan imagines what it would be like if his old teddy bear was the same size as him. He and 'Kellie Teddy' try riding a bike, having a race and finally, doing some team teddy tumbling. Charli practices her swing action and then she is 'Pogo Charli', she jumps about the set on a pogo adventure. Kellie and Chats remember when they first met in a toy store but each remembers the occasion differently
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| 388
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43
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Nature
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Party Street
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August 8, 2007
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9x43
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| Inspired by some seashells, Chats the sailor meets Queen Neptuna (Kellie) and various sea creatures. Charli pretends to be Queen Neptuna riding a seahorse. Sun is feeling a bit wintery and wishes it would snow so she could make a snowman. Jup Jup inspires her to make a rock man instead. Charli makes up a winter warm up based on action you do when your cold.
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| 389
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44
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Difference
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Party Street
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August 9, 2007
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9x44
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| Nathan, in the mood for dancing, digs through a box full of different sorts of dancing shoes. He matches shoes and then has fun with different dance styles. Charli performs an all-dancing 'groovy glove show'! She then finds actions to suit the sounds made by a 'magic sound box'. Chats and Kellie are celebrating Chats' new invention
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| 390
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45
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Feasts And Festivities
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Party Street
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August 10, 2007
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9x45
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| Sun prepares the space to welcome Kathleen's new baby and Jup Jup adds some special gifts. Charli is a teddy bear doing an action song. She also practises using chop sticks for Chinese New Year. Tim has written a song for a friend's Chinese New Year feast. A visit from a dancing Chinese dragon inspires him to add drums, cymbals and a gong to enhance the song.
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