Object: a receipt

Good morning, boys and girls. (Hold up the cash register receipt, ask the question and let them answer.) Do any of you know what this is? You get it at the grocery store. When your parents buy groceries, the person at the cash register puts one of these in your grocery bag. It is called a receipt. It lists everything that you bought at the grocery store. When it is very long, it means that you bought many things.

I want to tell you a story about someone who went to the grocery store and came home with many sacks of groceries. This person’s receipt was even longer than mine. The person with the groceries drove into his …