Writing sample - 3 weeks into focused day-after-day writing practice - “Talking animals”

Tilden has been focusing on writing stories.  He's been practicing grammar, punctuation and sorry flow.  He's coming along in big ways.  In just three weeks of work writing samples have gone from choppy streaming examples. He struggled for hours to write 10 sentences and lacked focus because it was so overwhelming.  Now he can belt out 30 to 50 sentences and deliver the producers shared below in a couple hours.

In addition to his creative writing, Tilden has been exploring the world of electronically generated and shared documents.  Below is a sample of dictated document using google slides and the native microphone.  Then he copied and pasted the story into an email on his chrome book.  Three weeks ago, Tilden didn't know how to use email, google slides/docs, know how to dictate into his WiFi phone or google docs...  

Tilden is also practicing typing skills M-F for 30 min.  

Our goal is to be able to type a 50 sentence story using his chrome book inside a single hour.  Then serious research projects - not sure if we need to take a break and introduce a foreign language and some interesting science projects first or not.  Weather is changing and the idea of being outside gets more and more exciting,  But we are definitely make huge strides in the language arts department.  Exciting stuff!!!

Begin forwarded message:

From: Tilden Guttenbergber <tildenguttenberger@gmail.com>
Date: March 5, 2019 at 7:41:48 AM PST
To: Tyler Guttenberger <TYGuttenberger@gmail.com>
Subject: Talking animals

There was a Boy. The boy was named Tim. He was kind. He was loving. He also knew how to do magic. He had a father. He had a mother. The father's name was Tom. The mother's name was Samantha. One day, while Tim was on his bike he saw a bird that said, " hello there, Tim". Tim was confused, birds don't talk. So he said, "hi bird." The bird said, "hello there, my name is Chirpy. Tim turned and laughed a little. He said, "Why don't you chirp," and the second he said that the bird began to chirp. He didn't think that all animals could speak but they wanted to hide their identity from the humans. So Tim said, "I know you can speak Chirpy." He kept talking to him and they started a conversation. After the conversation was done, Tim asked if all animals can talk. Chirpy said, "yes, except for turtles". Tim said, "thank you". Then he rode off to the pet store. When he got to the store he looked at fish, turtles, parrots, dogs and cats. He talked to most of the animals, but most of them denied that he could hear them, especially turtles, because he tried to talk to a turtle but the turtle kept denying that he heard Tim. When Tim left the pet store he got onto his bike. But before he left, he saw a dog waving to him. He waved back and rode off. He rode to his friends. He wanted to tell them that he could hear and talk to animals. When he got to this friends' fort, he said that he heard animals, but his friends didn't believe him, so when he talked to the dog, the dog said, "hello" to him. His friends jumped! They could hear the dog. One of his friends said, "hi", but the dog didn't understand him. So when Tim translated, the dog told them his name was Sergeant Ruff. Tim asked Sergeant Ruff what the names of the other dogs were. Sergeant Ruff said, "Sergeant Ruff the II, and Sergeant Ruff the…"  Tim asked Sergeant Ruff if all dogs were named Sergeant Ruff. He said, "yes". So when Tim left the fort he waved to all his friends and the dog, "Goodbye," and went home. (38)