Summary: It’s Halloween and Junie B. Jones is scared to go trick or treating. Last year she was told the five scary secrets: witches and monsters are real, pumpkins with sharp teeth will eat your feet, bats land in people’s hair, black cats will claw you, and candy corn is not real corn. With the help of her friends Junie comes up with an idea for a Halloween costume that will scare even the real monsters: a scary clown.
Instructional Activity: This lesson plan would be great tool to use during the week of Halloween in a first grade classroom. Before starting the book have a discussion with the class about what they are afraid of. Ask them if everyone is afraid of something and what they should do when they are scared? Then read aloud the
