Good morning, boys and girls. Do any of you have stuffed animals or dolls that you have named? (Let them answer.) This morning I brought (give the name and explain what the toy is). It’s fun to name toys.

I want to tell you about a girl your age, who had some stuffed animals and some dolls. She also had a cat. It was very important to this girl that all of these toys and her cat had names. Names tell us so much about something. She took her time, and thought and thought about good names for everything. Finally, she named her cat Midnight. What color do you suppose her cat was? (Let them answer.) She named one of her stuff…