Rice Steps Picture Map

A sequence, but drawn as a map with arrows rather than as a line of boxes.

The arrow is the new thing. It carries direction and cause, and grade one children start using arrows for things other than rice within about a week of meeting them properly. It is a genuinely portable tool.

Six stages, drawn small, connected. We do the first two together on the board and let them take over.

The page has the mapping space, a stage word bank, and an example arrow. It also suggests adding one loop, from harvest back to seed, and that loop is the moment a child understands that this is a cycle rather than a line. Some get there alone. Most need it pointed out once, and then it is permanent.