Suggestions for picture journaling!

Use this picture journaling activity to highlight or mark special experiences such as:
  • Moving onto Kindergarten from preschool
  • Becoming a big brother or sister (or the topic can be arrival of new baby sister or brother)
  • Moving
  • Vacation trip
  • And more!

My lilJournal

Introduce journaling activity for children!

My lilJournal is designed to accommodate young children -- aged 4 and up -- at all learning levels.  Whether they have taken their first steps as readers or are just beginning to recognize letters, picture journaling is a great way to remember the special moments they won't want to forget.
$ 8.99
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Journaling is a valuable, educational and FUN way for children to record meaningful experiences in their lives and document them in words and pictures.  

It allows them to 
re-live, 
validate, 
and express 
their feelings about those meaningful experiences.

Picture Journaling for Children

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By Sunny Im-Wang, Psy.D., S.S.P.


Journaling is an effective way to teach planning skills, understanding of time (before versus now), and organization of both thoughts and materials. It is also a great way to help children practice viewing events, situations, and one’s self from present to past and into the future (what will happen). 

Picture journaling can help children develop their life skills in relation to:

Time Perception
Differentiating past, present, and future

Thought Organization
Determining logical and chronological order

Expressive Communication Skills
Conveying ideas with words

Planning and Execution
Goal-setting and the steps to achieving the goal

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