This week I would like to share one of the many sensory curriculum plans I have written to model on Positive Eye courses about how to enable an holistic approach to literacy and numeracy whilst also supporting access via the other senses.
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Smells as you pass by on the bus – smell of flowers, smell of local bakery, smell of fish and chip shop. Smell of people’s perfume/aftershave worn as they get on the bus.
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Smell of inside of the bus
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Smell of diesel
Literacy
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‘Wheels on the bus go round and round’
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Talk about and depict with the collage of the bus, the journey that the children make by bus to school.
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Talk about their bus driver, what he says to the children when he sees them.
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Make up a story about where the children are going on the bus. E.g. to the park, to the ice cream shop, how the bus stops to pick up the other children on the way.
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Words associated with sounds the bus makes – loud, noisy, imitate the noise brmm, brmm.
The Wheels of the Bus
Children perform actions and sounds suggested by the words.
The wheels of the bus go round and round,
Round and round, round and round
The wheels of the bus go round and round
All through the town.
The driver of the bus says Move On Back! Move On back! Move On Back!
The driver of the bus says Move On Back!
All through the town.
The people on the bus go up and down, up and down, up and down.
The people on the bus go up and down all through the town.
Substitute these also:
The horn of the bus goes beep beep beep.
The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish.
The doors on the bus go open and shut.
The bell on the bus goes ding-ding-ding.
The driver on the bus says, “Move on back”…
The lady on the bus says, “Get off my feet”…
The baby on the bus goes, “Wa-Wa-Wa”…
The people on the bus say, “We had a nice ride”…
The Bus
There is a painted bus,
With twenty painted seats,
It carries painted people
Along the painted streets.
They pull the painted bell,
The painted driver stops,
And they all get out together
At the little painted shops.
Numeracy
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Feel shape of steering wheel and wheels on bus
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Feel shape of bus – straight edges.
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Count seats
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Count steps on double decker bus
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Count windows
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Count number of bells
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Feel different textures, count how many
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Count wheels
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Count people on bus
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Count number of people getting on and off bus
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Count number of times bus stops