Alexa	Anthony	Becca	Chase	Desire	Dustin
Ethan C.	Ethan M.	Jeffrey	Jessi	Joey	Kiera
Madi	Michael	Peter	Riley	Rose	Sarah

Pre-writing
Today we are going to make Blobbo Bugs.  Crease you sheet of paper down the center and drop some blobs of paint on one side.  Fold your paper again and press or pat with your hand.  When you open your paper, you will discover your very own blobbo bug.  Look at it carefully, can you find a nose? ears? eyes?  After it dries you may use your marking pens to define the features or add things like arms and legs.

After you have your bug just the way you want him, give him a name and write as much as you can about him.  Use descriptive words as you are writing.
1.  What does he eat?
2.  Where does he live:
3.   Does he make a noise?  What kind?
4.  Does he have any friends?

The children created their own web pages using the web editor in Netscape Communicator 4.7.  They rewrote the story, chose a font, page colors and properties.  The students scanned their blobbo bugs and inserted the images into their web page.  The students chose an animation from a list of free web graphics and included that in their web page.

Standards:
Writing Strategies
Students write clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs that develop a central idea. Their writing shows they consider the audience and purpose. Students progress through the stages of the writing process (e.g., prewriting, drafting, revising, editing successive versions).

Organization and Focus
1.1 Select a focus when writing.
1.2 Use descriptive words when writing.

Penmanship
1.3 Print legibly and space letters, words, and sentences appropriately.

2.0 Writing Applications (Genres and Their Characteristics)
Students write compositions that describe and explain familiar objects, events, and experiences. Student writing demonstrates a command of standard American English and the drafting, research, and organizational strategies outlined in Writing Standard 1.0.

Written and Oral English Language Conventions
The standards for written and oral English language conventions have been placed between those for writing and for listening and speaking because these conventions are essential to both sets of skills.

1.0 Written and Oral English Language Conventions
Students write and speak with a command of standard English conventions appropriate to this grade level.

Sentence Structure
1.1 Write and speak in complete, coherent sentences.

Grammar
1.2 Identify and correctly use singular and plural nouns.
1.3 Identify and correctly use contractions (e.g., isn't, aren't, can't, won't) and singular possessive pronouns (e.g., my/ mine, his/ her, hers, your/s) in writing and speaking.

Punctuation
1.5 Use a period, exclamation point, or question mark at the end of sentences.
1.6 Use knowledge of the basic rules of punctuation and capitalization when writing.

Capitalization
1.7 Capitalize the first word of a sentence, names of people, and the pronoun I.