May Newsletter
Updated: Dec 16, 2021
Welcome to the May newsletter.
In this edition:
The Gingerbread Man New Release
The Sensory Festival
May Awareness Calendar - Classroom Ideas and Inspiration.
Just Released!
A Fully resourced, step-by-step multisensory story with themed, sensory activities linking to areas of the curriculum.
Table of Contents
Story Props Checklist
How to Tell a Multisensory Story
The Gingerbread Man Rhyming Multisensory Story
Developing Understanding & Comprehension
Story Map
The Gingerbread Man Listening Game
The Gingerbread Man Sensory Bag
The Gingerbread Man Sensory Bin
Let's Explore...Foxes
Ginger Food Tasting
Ginger Arts & Crafts
Salt Dough Gingerbread Man Decorations
Running Races
Gingerbread Man Hunt
How to Grow Ginger From a Root
Classic Gingerbread Man Recipe
Rhyming Multisensory Story are presenting at The Sensory Festival.
May Awareness Days Teaching Ideas
(Ends May 10th) National Pet Month
Discuss pets with your students. Do they have any pets? How do we look after animals?
Play a pet listening game.
Can the students identify the sounds of household pets?
Raise funds for an animal charity.
May 1st - May 30th National Walking Month
Take students on a listening walk around the school.
Take students on a nature walk
Make a sensory pathway. Use different textured materials and natural items to form a pathway (sand/gravel/carpet/water/leaves/wood/foam etc) Encourage students to walk barefoot to engage their senses.
May 1st - May 30th Share a Story Month
Storytelling forms a bond between the storyteller and story explorer.