Object: Three cans of green paint and one can of blue paint.

Good morning, boys and girls. Today we are going to talk about a big word that I want you to learn. The word is "designate." Can you say designate? (Let them repeat it several times.) When you designate something, you are making something special, different from the rest of the things like it. I can designate you to be the teacher for today. All of the rest of us will learn from you. We are the learners, and you are the teacher.

Here is another way. I have here four cans of paint. I want to paint all of the rooms in my house but I want the kitchen to be a different color from all of the rest of the rooms. That is why I bought three cans of green paint and one can of blue paint. I am designating …