I meet the bears. The bears are going to the house. The bears are going to read a book. The bears are going to go outside to go for a walk in the rain. They are going to go outside to play in the playground. They are going to slide down the slide.

Jon

[From Jon’s teacher: Jon wrote this without supervision, with only reminders that sentences start with a capital. Three times he wrote a sentence, then was not happy with it, so he’d erase it and write a different one. Sentences I thought were in the story would disappear to be replaced by better ones!]

[Jon is very enthusiastic about his new educational computer game called Math Missions. Among the activities, wandering around town on various transit and (not while) mixing smoothies]
I love going to go on the sub way train to find the crect stop before I poosh go. I put the money in the change box before I poosh go. I like megering 10 cups of juse and 10 cups of booster. First I set the clock to the right time before I poosh go.

Jon

[The second school creative writing assignment where Jon picks a photo from a wide selection and writes a story about it. This is his second time making up names for the characters–this time it took him 5 minutes to come up wiht the first name (down from 25), and almost no time to invent the second, giggling with delight]
Rabits are soft. I feel the rabit fer. I call him Eyes. I call her Beb. The rabits do eat broclley. I like them to play with me. I like the rabits. The rabits are going home to work on the computer.

Jon