Spiritual journals are journals in which the children write in weekly. In some fashion children respond to and reflect on the workshop lesson. Children start journaling as early as kindergarten with pictures, progressing through the years to concrete responses and eventually to more abstract responses. Hopefully writing about their faith through the years will help writing a faith statement in junior high confirmation less intimidating. The Potter's Workshops curriculum provides a journaling idea to be used at the end of each workshop.
Journals can be spiral notebooks or paper stapled together with a designed cover.
Journals may be kept together by grade levels in a central location for teachers to pick up each Sunday. We suggest that you decide beforehand what you will do with the journals at the end of the year. There are benefits both to sending them home or keeping them over the years. We have expanded all newly written curriculum to include 6 workshops. These will be available for the 1998 - 1999 Sunday School year.