Journaling with Preschoolers!

Providing my children with their own journal that they can use to do absolutely whatever they want inside has proven to be one of the best ideas I've had. Journals are available to the children at any point in their day, they can even bring their journal to a quiet area with one writing utensil to journal. While working in their journals, children are never guided in a certain direction or given certain directions, they are doing their own free work and exploring their own creative minds.The work the children have produced so far is amazing.

Children explore writing letters, phonetic words, and names without guidelines. Children also explore drawing and using different art mediums to express themselves.

 Fusion Beading (explored in a later post) has been a huge hit in our classroom and children enjoy putting their bead projects into their journals for safe keeping.

Creative expression is a huge part in journaling for preschoolers. It gives them a binded notebook where they can keep their work.