Guess with Jess

- Season 1

(2009)

Jess and Horace want to play Boat Racing on the pond - but first the need work out how to make a boat! Some things are too heavy, some are too light... having tried lots of options and worked out that they need something light and boat shaped, they make Mimi's paper hats into boats for their boat race. Perfect!

It's Willow's apple picking party today, but some of the friends just are too chilly to go. Jess tries to work out how to keep them all warm, should they cover themselves in mud just like frogs do? Should they wrap themselves up in straw? Or might running around be the trick to getting them all toasty warm?

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Jess is playing puddle jumping, dodging the rain to have fun on a gloomy day when suddenly, just as the rain's stopping, the sun comes out and at the same time he sees a beautiful rainbow in the sky. He's desperate to show his friends, and it's not until he works out you need sunshine and rain at the same time to make a rainbow that he can show his friends the beautiful coloured shape in the sky.

Jess is searching for Horace by the pond but he's nowhere to be found. When he calls into a hollow log and his voice echo's back, Jess thinks it's the voice of a new friend and sets about trying to work out where the friend is. By using comparisons and clever thinking, Jess works out that it's not someone else - it's his voice bouncing off the log. It's an echo,

Jess is off to play painting and gluing with his pink rabbit friend Mimi. He's very excited. But when he arrives Mimi's hutch is overflowing with rubbish and there's no space for their art project. Jess works out how to get the rubbish out of the hutch using recyclling re-using and re-pairing.

Baa's feeling lonely as his buddy Billie the mouse has gone off for the day. Jess goes hunting for someone to come to the meadow to live with Baa. He find a fish to live in the trough, but there's no pond weed for him to live, he tries Sammy snail but he carries his own home on his back so he doesn't need a new home, finally they realise that there are ants already living with Baa in the meadow.

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The friends are having a tidying up day. Frightened Baa doesn't like spiders or their webs but Jess helps him to stop being scared by working out that Spiders build webs to catch their supper, and Baa feels re-assured and happy. Spiders are rather nice, rather clean and rather clever.

Poor Willow has a sore hoof and has to stay inside until it's better. She's really missing her orchard so Jess and Mimi are determined to bring something of the outside to Willow to cheer her up. A tree is too big and it's too late in the year for apples. Jess works out that they can make beautiful tree and leaf rubbings into a wonderful tree collage for the stable to remind Willow of her orchard.

Mimi has promised Jess a special surprise if he can work out what he likes best about the Spring... He finds out that there's blossom on the trees, fresh new grass, bright young flowers in the Springtime. But he decides his very favorite thing is the newly hatched very cute little baby birds which his friend Little Bird has been singing about all along.

Willow is the best hide-and-seek finder! Jess is determined to work out a way of hiding without Willow finding him! A trip to the pond where he discovers that both Horace and Sammy Snail are camouflaged leads him to work out that he too can do the same to hide from Willow at last!

Mimi's munching some honey sandwiches at the Hutch when Jess comes to visit. She shows him the lovely pots of honey she has and he wonders why bees need to make it. He thinks maybe Jess wonders if it might be used as glue but when Horace singing him a groovy song about HOW honey is made, Jess has an idea that it might be used as food during the winter when there's no pollen..

Jess is excited to tell the children at home all about the Owl he heard Hoo Hoo'ing in the night and he wants to let us hear it. He tries everything he can think of to get the Owl to hoot until he works out that it was nightime when he last heard the owl, so it he waits til it's night again we might just all get to hear the lovely sound of the Owl.

Joey and Jinx tell Jess that their puddle is gone, so they try to find out where it is now.

Jess has s new friend - Horace tells him it's his shadow. Jess is keen to introduce him to all his friends, but he keeps running away! Jess works out that the sun has to be shining for the shadow to come back and that all the friends have their Own shadows to play games with too.

Jess is concerned that all the water on the farm is frozen and sets about working out when it will come back. He works out that once the sun is out the ice melts and learns all about freezing and melting..

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Jess loses a feather and goes looking for it in the Whispering Woods.

Jess is having a sleepover and wants to wish on a star with the puppies like Willow has told them to. But they all fall asleep. When he wakes in the morning to find the stars are gone he has to work out why and when they'll be back

Mimi is very sad, so Jess gets his friends to play music to cheer her up./Mimi is upset when her little friend Sammy Snail goes missing.

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Jess is given his very first kite by Mimi. It's very special indeed. He can't wait to fly it! But first he has to work out HOW!

Mimi has made Jess a lovely kite as a present, but he has trouble getting it to fly./When a dandelion plant appears in Mimi's garden, Jess tries to find out who planted it.

Jess sets out to re-assure his frightened friends by working out what the noise is in the sky that's so loud.

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Poor Mimi! Her normally beautiful garden is all messy and full of swirly piles of earth. She's really upset and Jess promises to her help her make it the most beautiful garden ever! Raking away the swirls doesn't work, they just come back! Jess and Mimi realise that worms are making the swirly piles of earth. Mimi wants to move them away but they go back underground before she can catch them. When it rains the worms come back and Jess and Mimi gather up the worms in a bucket and take them to live in the orchard by a patch of scrappy flowers. The garden still isn't ...

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One winter morning Jess finds lots of ladybird in his barn. Why are they there? That's the Big Question! Mimi tells him that she has lots of ladybirds in her garden in the summer. They're always hungry and brilliant for the plants because they eat all the greenfly. Maybe they're looking for greenfly in his barn? Jess doesn't think so. There are no greenfly in the barn. He goes to ask Baa and Billie for help. They're saying goodbye to Little Bird who's flying away to a warmer country for the winter. Jess thinks maybe the ladybirds are gathering to fly away too and ...

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Baa and Billie have built a fantastic new see-saw in the meadow. Jess can't wait to have a go. But when he tries to make it go up and down with him on one end and Baa and Billie on the other he just gets stuck in the air and can't get the see saw down. 'How can I go up and down on the see saw?' he asks? -desperate to have all the 'up and down' fun he see the puppies having when they jump on the see-saw. Jess asks Horace the hoppy frog what he knows about 'up and down', he talks to Willow about scales and weighing things until finally he works it out - if he finds ...

JESS shows Mimi his lovely Nature Collection. She really likes it and wonders what he's going to do with it. Now that's a good question! Jess thinks he'll display it but with the pups racing around it'd soon get damaged. He asks Horace if he could use it to make musical instruments - some things make a great sound but others aren't so good. It's time to go on a picnic with Mimi and his friends. Jess brings his Nature Collection along and when all his friends want to play a game Jess has a great idea. He's found the perfect thing to do with his Nature Collection! They ...

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Jess, Mimi, Baa and Billie are playing a game, kicking a fir cone into a bucket. But it's so cold that poor shivering Billie can't kick properly. They need to find a way Bilie can stay warm enough. Baa's never cold because of his wool. They find a clump of Baa's wool on the ground but it just falls off Billie when Jess puts it on her - and Mimi tells them that glueing it on's a bad idea. What happens when it's summer and Billie wants to be cool? Maybe wrapping her in it, like a blanket, is the answer? It definitely keeps her warm - only problem is, she can't move! ...

JESS, JOEY and JINX go to the Whispering Woods in the hope of seeing some butterflies, but the puppies are so lively and noisy that they frighten them away. JESS wonders "how can we hide to watch butterflies?" That's the Big Question! JESS decides to make somewhere to hide out of natural materials. The puppies and Jess try to build a hide out of stones but they're too heavy and all fall down. Jess thinks that something lighter might work well but when they try to build a hide out of straw it's TOO light and flies away in the wind. JESS is stuck - there must be some ...

It's a snowy day on Greendale Farm so Jess and his friends have a race down Cherry Hill. Jess wants to win the race but he can't run as fast in the snow. "How can I go faster than Joey and Jinx?" Thinks Jess. That's the Big Question. First, Jess tries rolling down the hill like the puppies but he's not a good roller so that doesn't work. Horace shows Jess how he slides down his slide in the pond. Jess tries again at Cherry Hill but can't get going. Helped by Billie and Baa he remembers everything that Horace did - pushing off, going 'Wheeeee! and lifting his legs up -...

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Jess and Mimi are decorating hats. Mimi can't decide which of her two hats to wear - the one decorated with flowers or the one decorated with berries? It's a Big Question to answer! Baa and Billie are having fun making shadow shapes on the barn door so they go and ask them for advice. Jess suggests that he and Baa model the hats for Mimi. They look great but Mimi still doesn't know what they'd look like on her. JESS remembers the shadows that Baa was making earlier and suggests that she could wear a hat and look at her shadow to see what it looks like. Mimi tries it ...

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It's Christmas Eve on Greendale Farm. Jess is very very excited. Every year Mimi decorates the special tree in the woods and the friends all gather around to sing and play and open presents. But when Jess, Mimi and Willow arrive to leave presents at the tree they're shocked to see that the wind has blown all the decorations away! How dreadful! - How will they celebrate Christmas with no decorations? And Mimi can't help as she and Willow have promised to deliver presents outside the farm. Jess promises to work it out 'How can we decorate the Christmas Tree?' - that's ...

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There's a hole in the bottom of Baa's trough so none of the thirsty friends can have a drink. How can we mend the trough, wonders Jess. Hey, that's the Big Question. Jess decides to ask Horace for help but Horace has a problem of his own. He's trying to make a lovely new musical sound but the square shaped piece of bark he's got doesn't make a very good noise when he clangs it with a stick. Jess borrows the bark to cover the hole in the trough but it's the wrong shape. He decides to ask Mimi for help with making a different shape to cover the hole. Mimi's making a ...

Jess and the puppies find some strange green hairy stuff growing under the water barrel. The puppies are scared of it and Jess promises them that he'll find out what it is at once. Hey, that's the big question! Jess thinks the green hairy stuff might be grass. He goes to ask Baa, who's a grass expert. Baa, Billie and Jess compare the green hairy stuff and ordinary grass using Billie's magnifying glass. It isn't grass but it is a plant. Mimi knows all about plants so they go to ask her about the green hairy stuff. She shows them the green hairy tops of carrots but they...

What is the mysterious green plant that's growing by the water barrel?/Jess follows a series of clues in order to find his friends and a very special surprise!

Jess and the puppies find a pile of acorns buried under a tree. The puppies want to play with them, but Jess thinks they should find out why the acorns are buried there first. That's the Big Question! Baa and Billie don't know - Billie says she'd eat acorns rather than bury them! Jess goes off to see Mimi who's planting her conker to grow a chestnut tree. Jess wonders if someone planted the acorns to grown into an oak but Mimi doesn't think so. They'd need to be buried somewhere with more space to grow. Jess tries Willow who is storing apples for the winter. She ...

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