Just thought I would add what we have done with journals even though it is our Kids in Worship program.

The kids when they first enter the program, answer some question prompters and draw a color picture of themselves. I then create personalized journal pages by scanning each child's drawing in and then in publisher I use the prompted question sheets with their very insightful and creative responses to create a border around the page. In the top left corner is the reduced scanned drawing of themselves. I use a variety of colors and kinds of papers to print these on.

You could add prompter questions for each unit on each page and it would take no more than 5 minutes each week to adjust and a bit longer to print depending on the number of kids you need these for.

We do not use the pages each week but probably twice a month. New children in the program get to create their images and answer their questions for the first two visits and then on the third visit they receive their own custom journal pages. This obviously is not the way to go if you have tons of children but for those under 50, it may be something that would help. They LOVE their sheets and we have include some black scratch pages as well as glow in the dark sheets. The journals are kept in the classroom.