Journaling with children can be rewarding for so many reasons, including building fine motor skills, handwriting, and cognitive skills as well as boosting self-confidence and imagination. It can be used as a tool to enrich vocabulary, to improve writing skill and to clarify thinking. Additionally, journaling can help students get their feelings out and on paper. Keeping a journal will help students feel safe to express their emotions and their thoughts about what's going on in their lives at school, at home with family, with their friends, or anything else.