This comprehensive teaching pack is aimed at providing opportunities for learners to explore the month of January 2024 through the senses.
It includes a fully resourced, step-by-step multisensory story, mini sensory stories, and sensory activity ideas to celebrate the month’s festivals and celebrations, awareness days, this day in history, January Facts, and more!
The perfect resource for SEN & Mainstream Teachers, Early Years Practitioners, HLTA’s, TA’s, SLA’s, Speech Therapists, Play Therapists, Support Workers, Activity Coordinators, Parents, Guardians, Childminders, Carers, Librarians and anyone with an interest in exploring storytelling through the senses.
Table of Contents
How to tell a Multisensory Story
Using Sound Effects in a Multisensory Story
‘January’ – A Fully Resourced, Step-by-Step, Multisensory Story
January Facts – Janus Art Activity
Quote of the Month
January Birthstone
January Nature
January on the Farm
The Sensory Garden
January Star Signs
‘Capricorn the Goat’ Multisensory Story
Aquarius The Water Bearer Activity
Scents of the Month
Tastes of the Month
Veganuary
New Year Lucky Foods
National Whipped Cream Month
National Bean Month
National Milk Day
Brew Monday
National Popcorn Day
National Cheese Lovers Day
National Chocolate Cake Day
National Croissant Day
National Hot Chocolate Day
The New Moon
Festivals and Celebrations
Epiphany
Orthodox Christmas Day
Distaff Day
The Straw Bear Festival
Lohri
Wassailing Day Multisensory Story
Laba
St Agnes Eve Multisensory Story
Burns Night
Tu BiShvat
St Dwynwen’s Day
Awareness Days
World Self-care Day
World Introvert Day
World Braille Day
Big Schools Birdwatch
Thesaurus Day
World Snow Day
National Handwriting Day
Australia Day
International Holocaust Memorial Day
National Lego Day
Jan National Puzzle Day
This Day in History
The launch of rocket Luna
Birthdate of Sir Isaac Newton.
Birthdate of Welsh painter Augustus John.
German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen demonstrated his invention the x-ray.
The opening of a transatlantic telephone line between London and New York.
Galileo Galilei announces his discovery of four moons circling Jupiter.
The Introduction of the Penny Post.
Opening of the London Underground.
Birthdate of Charles Perrault author of ‘Little Red Riding Hood’
The London Co-operative society opens Britain’s first self-service supermarket in London.
Birthdate of Michael Bond creator of Paddington Bear.
Disney’s first full-length colour cartoon ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ is released.
The Crowning of Queen Elizabeth I.
The Introduction of Decimal Currency in the UK.
Martin Luther King Day.
Birthdate of Benjamin Franklin.
Birthdate of AA Milne.
Birthdate of American astronaut and second man on the moon Edwin Buzz Aldrin.
Scientists discover the fossil of the oldest known land creature.
Birthdate of Lewis Carroll.
Dr Livingstone is found in Africa by Sir Henry Morton Stanley.
Birthdate of Jackson Pollock.
Promoting literacy skills through recycling Christmas Cards
