I love to use the sensory room, but it is my pet hate when I see it being used for 'free choice' or 'down time', the children have plenty of spaces that they can do that. The sensory room is often so motivating that you can see children engage in things that you just wouldn't see in another setting!
The Gingerbread Man was our topic book, and I wanted the children to run around and crash into the walls to get loads of proprioceptive and vestibular input so that they would be ready to do a small piece of mark making when back in class afterwards.
I found all the characters from the story in my class and then hid them in the sensory room and said with the children the gingerbread mans favourite line 'run, run, as fast as you ca, you can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!'
We looked at the book to see who was chasing him first, it was the old lady in our version and so the children had to look under, over, in, wherever they could in order to find the old lady and bring her to the edge. We repeated this for all the characters and reinforce the ,language 'first' 'second' third' etc. as well for an extension for the mathematically able in the group.
They all loved this session so much, that they asked if they could do it again for the next three days, so we did on the fourth day!
Here are the visual resources that I made to go with the lesson- have fun!
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