Not Everything Spooky Is Scary

A Curiosity Driven Themed Experience

  • Themes:

    🔍Curiosity

    👀Perspective

    💪Confidence

    💡Critical Thinking

     

    Best For:

    Kindergarten–3rd Grade | Libraries | Classrooms | Assemblies

  • What The Students Will Discover:

    Sometimes the things that seem scary become a little less mysterious when we slow down, ask questions, and take a closer look.

     

    Through storytelling, discussion, and audience participation, students learn how curiosity and how new perspectives can change the way we see the world.

Inspired By: Haunted House By Jaybie D.

    • 🔍First, students tour the house during the daytime to discover clues, props, and behind-the-scenes details that bring the spooky experience to life. 

    • 👀 Then they return after dark to revisit familiar spaces, uncover new surprises, and experience how perspective, context, and additional information can completely change what they think they know. 

    • 💡Students discover that first impressions do not always tell the whole story and that understanding often begins with taking a closer look. 

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    During the Visit Students Will:

    • ✓ Become story detectives to reveal
      what's real and what's pretend

       

      ✓ Use observation, listening, and
      sensory cues to investigate

       

      ✓ Make predictions and test their
      assumptions

       

      ✓ Listen to an engaging read-aloud

       

      ✓ Participate in guided discussion and
      audience interaction

    • ✓ Compare familiar scenes and
      discover new surprises

       

      ✓ Compare an original book cover
      to its revised version

       

      ✓ Explore how perspective
      changes understanding

       

      ✓ Discover how curiosity can
      replace fear of the unknown

       

      ✓ Leave with practical ways to
      approach unfamiliar situations

    Connections To Learning

    • Supports:

      📚 Literacy Development

      ❤️ Social Emotional Learning

      🔎 Observation & Inference

      🎨 Creativity & Revision

      💡 Critical Thinking

      ✨ Imagination

      🎭 Perspective

      🌱 Growth Mindset

    • Interactive Author Presentation

      45–60 minutes

      Large Group Assembly

      Multiple classes or grade levels

      Library Program

      Perfect for reading celebrations and literacy events

    • Flexible Options

      Mix and match presentations, workshops, and literacy experiences to create the right fit for your students.

      Built Around Your Goals

      Whether you're planning a single assembly, multiple workshops, or a customized campus-wide event, we'll build an experience that supports your goals.

    Optional Workshop Extension

    • Story Partners Workshop: Mystery & Discovery Edition

      Continue the learning journey with Story Partners, a collaborative literacy workshop that pairs older students (4th & 5th) and younger students (K-3) to create and illustrate original picture books while building literacy, communication, creativity, and mentorship skills.

    • Theme Connection

      The themes of Not Everything Spooky Is Scary encourage students to look beyond first impressions, ask questions, gather clues, and explore new perspectives before drawing conclusions.


      Curiosity helps us ask better questions. Understanding helps us see things in a new way.

    • Story Blueprint

      1. A character encounters something strange, mysterious, or unfamiliar.
      2. They gather clues and investigate what they discover.
      3. New information challenges their original assumptions.
      4. They uncover a truth that changes how they see the situation.

    🔍 Observe 🧩 Investigate 💡 Understand

    How does taking a closer look change what we see?

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