Zola Notices Everything

  Planning ahead

Zola went trick-or-treating with a plan

Zola and her dad walking hand in hand at dusk past glowing jack-o'-lanterns, a candy bucket in her hand

Halloween night has a lot going on: doorbells, costumes with no faces, and a house on the corner with a skeleton that screams when you walk past it.

So Zola and Dad made a plan at dinner. They'd do the quiet street first. They'd skip the screaming skeleton entirely. And they agreed on a secret signal: two squeezes of the hand meant “I'm done,” no questions asked.

She used it after forty minutes, with a full bucket of candy. Dad didn't argue or bargain for one more house. They just turned around and went home.

Which is exactly why she'll want to go again next year.

Try it this week: Agree on a secret “I'm done” signal before you go out, then honor it the very first time.

Zola's word hunt

Five words from this story are hiding in the grid. They read across → and down ↓ — never backwards. Tap the first letter, then the last letter.Circle each word when you find it.

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  • ZOLA
  • CANDY
  • BUCKET
  • SIGNAL
  • STREET

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