November Teaching Planner
Updated: 2 days ago
Sensory-rich ideas and activities to celebrate the month of November. This month's focus is Wellbeing, Remembrance, Belonging and Nature, with opportunities for sensory exploration, celebration, discovery, reflection, kindness and connecting with the natural world.
🚀 WEEK 1 — Wellbeing • Sensory regulation • Seasonal scents
🧠 National Stress Awareness Day — Weds 4 November
Mark the day with a simple, relaxing bubble-blowing activity. Explore how gentle breaths create big bubbles and little bubbles with this Sensory Moments activity card.
🎆 Bonfire Night — Thurs 5 November
🪔 WEEK 2 — Celebration • Discovery • Remembrance • Rhyme
🪔 Diwali — Sunday 8 November
🌺 Remembrance Sunday — Sunday 8 November
🔬 World Science Day for Peace and Development — Tuesday 10 November
🎖️ Armistice Day — Wednesday 11 November
🎵 World Nursery Rhyme Week — Monday 9 to Friday 13 November
🪔 Diwali — Sunday 8 November
Rangoli Template
World Science Day for Peace and Development — Tuesday 10 November - Sensory Experiments
Explore the wonders of science through simple sensory experiments:
💧 Water: Pour, splash, watch ripples and freeze.
🧲 Magnets: Explore how magnets attract and repel magnetic objects.
🔦 Light: Explore torches, shadows and reflections.
🥁 Sound: Shake sensory bottles or activate sound buttons.
🎖️Armistice Day — Wednesday 11 November - A Moment of Remembrance
Create a gentle moment of remembrance as handmade poppies flutter and settle on a parachute to Elgar’s Nimrod.
Step-by-step guide to create paper or tissue-paper poppies for your Mini Multisensory Music Journey.
🎵 World Nursery Rhyme Week — Monday 9 to Friday 13 November
Explore a Nursery Rhyme Object Choose Bag, inviting learners to make choices, connect objects with their corresponding rhymes, and develop recognition, anticipation and communication through music and repetition.
💜 WEEK 3 — Kindness • Inclusion • Belonging
🤝 Anti-Bullying Week — Monday 16 to Friday 20 November
Explore kindness, inclusion and belonging through a shared sensory sound activity, celebrating the different ways we communicate and connect with others.
🌳 WEEK 4 — Nature • Trees
🌳 National Tree Week — Saturday 21 to Sunday 29 November
📚 November Resources
🕊️ Antibullying
🍂 Autumn Sensory Story
✨ Diwali
🎵 Vivaldi's Autumn - A Multisensory Music Journey
🎆 Bonfire Night
🧚 The Nutcracker Suite - A Multisensory Music Journey
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Further Resources
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Sensory Stories
Seasons | Spring | Summer | Autumn | Winter | A Winter Walk | January Through the Senses | The Weather
Christmas | Dear Santa (Includes How to Adapt into a Play) | Rudolph’s Carrots
Culture & Celebrations | A Train Ride Through India | Book Day | Bonfire Night | Burns Night | Chinese New Year | Diwali | Easter | Holi | Harvest Festival | Ramadan | Sensory Saints | St Patrick’s Day | The World Cup | Vesak
Halloween | Ghosts, Ghouls, Skeletons and Shadows | Halloween | The Witch
Maths | Shapes – A Multisensory Exploration
History | Benjamin Franklin | The King’s Coronation | The Queen’s Jubilee | The Great Fire of London | The Romans | VE Day
Topics & Themes | Airports and Airplanes | Elephants | Journey into Space | Minibeasts | The Beach | The Farm | The Rainforest
Traditional Tales | Goldilocks and the Three Bears | Jack and the Beanstalk | Little Red Riding Hood | The Gingerbread Man | The Three Little Pigs
Multisensory Music Journeys™ | Vivaldi’s Spring | Vivaldi’s Summer | Vivaldi’s Autumn | Vivaldi’s Winter | The Nutcracker – A Multisensory Music Journey™
Life Skills, Self Care, Routines & Transitions | Antibullying | Back to School | | Jobs and Work Experience | People Who Help Us – The Special School Superheroes | Student Enterprise | Transitions Practical Ideas for Multisensory Learning
Literacy Through Everyday Life | The Coffee Shop
Practitioner Guides | Cause and Effect Practical Ideas for Multisensory Learning | Circle Time Practical Ideas for Multisensory Learning | Pupil Voice | Sensory Bottles Practical Ideas for Multisensory Learning | Sensory Resources for Sensory Learners
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'Have a great month...see you in December'
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