January 2024 Teachers Almanac January Through the Senses

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

Sir Isaac Newton.

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
The Introduction of the Penny Post.

Opening of the London Underground.

Charles Perrault

The London Co-operative society opens Britain’s first self-service supermarket in London.

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.

Benjamin Franklin.

Edwin Buzz Aldrin.

Scientists discover the fossil of the oldest known land creature.

Lewis Carroll.

Dr Livingstone is found in Africa by Sir Henry Morton Stanley.

Jackson Pollock.

Promoting literacy skills through recycling Christmas Cards