Mentorship

Fishing with Father Bear

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Little Bear and Father Bear set out early to catch the biggest fish in the lake. They pack a picnic, row out in a boat, and Father Bear teaches Little Bear to be his first mate, showing him how to row and cast a line. While they wait, they talk about life at sea, share cookies and imagine what they might catch. They reel in only a small fish, and the day ends with the two of them playing and splashing together in the water.

Ladybugs!

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George is given a bag of ladybugs at Flora's plant stand and wants to keep them on his newly planted tomato. When they keep flying off, he tries setting out water and gathering flowers, then mistakes striped potato beetles for yellow ladybugs and puts them on his plant. Flora spots the chewed leaves, identifies the beetles, and together they count and remove all ten before releasing them in the woods. The episode closes with George's plant safe and the family sharing a picnic supper in the garden.

Raspberry Cupcakes

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Ray welcomes a group of young chicks to her cooking class in Bebopsburg to make raspberry cupcakes, with Do and Mi helping out. The chicks would rather play than mix, so Ray decides to sing her instructions, but her first version is far too loud and sends them into hiding, the next is too soft to hear, then one is too quick to follow and another so slow that several chicks doze off. Maestro Moon explains what dynamics and tempo mean, and Ray keeps adjusting until she finds a version the chicks can actually follow. The class finishes their cupcakes and the episode ends with a taste test.

Monkey the Magnificent

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George watches a young magician named Marco perform a reappearing-rabbit trick and decides he wants to learn it. Marco teaches him five steps written on cards, and George practises with a dog and then a pigeon before performing at Marco's afternoon show. When his cards fall out of order and the trick goes wrong in front of the crowd, George recalls the missed step and numbers his cards with fruit so they stay in sequence. He completes the trick and is invited to become a regular part of the act.

Zou Goes Camping

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Zou, a young zebra, decides he wants to go camping with Grandpa. He visits Mr Zoe's shop for provisions, helps Grandpa finish the ironing, and then watches as Grandpa pitches the old tent in the back garden while telling stories about wild animals. Mom makes sardine sandwiches, and Zach brings the forgotten tin over, where he is invited to join the campers. The episode ends with the children laughing about everything except the sardine sandwiches.

Egg

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On a working farm, sisters Jill and Jackie discover that a special golden egg has rolled away from its nest. Farmer Jill organises the animals into a lookout team and reasons her way around the barn, yard and fields to track it down, while Jackie sets herself the job of collecting the hens' eggs and learns how to lift a chicken gently. The goats Biff and Bob eventually find the golden egg in an old bucket, and it is reunited with its carers. The episode closes with the family planting sweet-corn seeds just before the rain, then heading out to bring the last animals inside.

Look at Me, Little Me

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Ray, a small pink bird, wakes her friends Do, Re and Mi at dawn so they will not miss the auditions for the Fabulous Flamingo-Go's. She sings for Flora, Ferris and Frida, who are struck by her voice and choose her to perform at the Birdie Nest Bowl. At rehearsals Ray keeps being overlooked and tries to fix it with stilts and an oversized bow, both of which leave her on the floor. Her friends and the flamingos tell her she only has to be herself, and she performs the show that evening as she is.

Listen to Your Body

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Ray the hummingbird bends her tail feathers dancing too hard in Flora Flamingo's class, and her friends tell her that her body is asking for rest. She resists, suggesting her body wants a snack or another dance instead, and keeps tumbling out of the air until Doe catches her. Maestro Moon explains that even music has rests, and Ray's friends bring her home and settle down with her. After a long rest her feathers mend, and the episode closes with the whole group singing about the signals a body sends.

Meekah Flips on a Trampoline at Skyzone

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Meekah visits a trampoline park to learn how to do a flip. She picks out grippy socks, counts the trampolines, jumps into a foam pit, and tries shooting baskets while she searches for an instructor named Quincy. When she finds him, he leads her through warm-ups and somersaults and shows a front flip, reminding her to only try one with a grown-up. Meekah decides to keep practicing and closes by inviting viewers to look up her name.

Gift of Compassion

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Addy is frustrated that her younger brother Carl will not share a new marble-maze game, so she calms herself with deep breathing and visits her neighbour Stillwater, a giant panda. He plays a Chinese flute, scoops leaves from his pond, and tells her the story of Master Chu, who keeps saving a scorpion from the river even after it stings her. Addy realises she should try a different approach with Carl, and instead of taking the game she offers to play it together with him. The two cooperate, steering the maze ball side by side, while Stillwater is heard trying something new of his own.

Stuck in the Rain

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Michael is disappointed when rain cancels his baseball game, so his neighbour Stillwater, a wise panda, shows him another way to see the day. Stillwater explains that he treats the rain as a raincoat and tells the story of Odette, a gardener who removes the bees from her garden and then loses all her fruit. Michael takes the lesson to heart, realises rain helps things grow, and starts having fun racing leaf boats and jumping in puddles. The episode closes with the children playing happily in the rain.

Dressed Up

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Carl is convinced his favourite shirt has shrunk, so he goes to see his panda neighbour Stillwater, who is practising Tai Chi in the garden. As they move and talk, Carl slowly realises the shirt did not shrink, he has grown. Stillwater tells him the story of Nani, a hermit crab who learns to leave her outgrown shell for a new one. In the end Carl accepts a bigger hand-me-down shirt from his brother Michael and joins Stillwater for one last Tai Chi move.

Big Dreams And Blue Skies

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Molly, an Alaska Native girl, hears how a pilot named Ellen Peniak inspired her mother to fly. When the library's books leave women pilots out, Molly digs deeper online and through Auntie Midge's stories, then flies along on a mail run where her mom lands safely by reading the wind off a lake. Together they write a booklet about Ellen and two other women pilots and leave it at the library so others can learn about them.

The Impossible Dream

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A boy named Carl is building a spaceship from boxes, boards and odds and ends he borrows from his neighbour Stillwater, a panda who lives next door. When Carl's brother and sister insist the spaceship will never fly, Stillwater tells him the story of Joku, a farmer who refused to believe it was impossible to catch the sun. Encouraged, Carl decides to keep trying and lowers his sights to getting just a little way up. The episode ends with Carl, Addy and Michael taking turns on a pretend flight, thrilled that it feels like the spaceship is really soaring.

Downward Dog

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Michael spends the weekend pet-sitting the neighbour's dog, Yuko, with big plans to become her best friend. When Yuko prefers playing with his younger brother Carl, Michael feels left out, until the panda neighbour Stillwater shares a story about Dario, a mouse who learns the joy of giving. Michael realises that keeping Yuko safe and happy, and sharing the fun with Carl, is what good pet-sitting is about. The episode closes with the whole group heading out for a walk together.

Tusk, Tusk, and More Tusk

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Molly and her friends Tooey and Trini discover a large tusk buried in the mud near the river in their Alaska village. Grandpa Nat and an archaeologist named Olin Benedict identify it as a woolly mammoth tusk and explain the Ice Age, permafrost, and how the warming climate erodes the riverbank. The children help free the tusk through trial and error, measure it, photograph it, and give it the Gwich'in name 'Trilzok', meaning gentle. The episode ends with a separate live-action segment where children visit a museum to learn whether dinosaurs once lived in Alaska.

Soaked

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Two brothers, Carl and Michael, accidentally soak their sister Addy with water balloons and knock her freshly baked cupcakes into the mud, then hide because they fear she will be angry. Their neighbor, a panda named Stillwater, finds them and, while they help him pull weeds, tells a story about a gardener named Arjun who kept putting off a small task until it grew impossible. The brothers realize hiding will not help and apologize to Addy, who forgives them and shares a new batch of cupcakes. The episode ends with everyone playing together with water balloons.

Larger Than Life

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Carl, a young boy, spends all his birthday money on a toy robot he imagines will be fifty feet tall and able to shoot light beams. When the package arrives it holds only a small robot, and Carl is deeply disappointed. His neighbor Stillwater, a panda, tells him a story about his friend Dahlia, who planted melon seeds, grew pumpkins by mistake, and turned them into a pie everyone loved. Carl decides he can still have fun with the robot in a different way and plays imaginative adventures with Addy and the others.

The Sleeping Moon

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Three siblings and their panda neighbor Stillwater set up a backyard party to watch a lunar eclipse. Just as the moon starts to darken, clouds roll in and hide the best part, leaving the children disappointed. Stillwater helps them talk about how the letdown feels and tells a story about a woman named Antonia and a songbird that visits her garden and then flies away for good. The children realize the evening was still worth it, hand out the moon pops, and close the night with shadow puppets and a song.