Ivy's Picture Schedule
On Sunday afternoon, Ivy sat at the kitchen table with her crayons. Her dad, Ben, sat down beside her. Cat hopped up onto the third chair and curled into a warm purring loaf.
"Ivy, tomorrow Ms. Park is away," Ben said. "Your class will have a new teacher for the day. His name is Mr. Lee." Ivy rolled a purple crayon between her fingers. "Will everything be different?" "Not everything," said Ben. "Let's find out which parts."
They cut a long paper strip and made a picture schedule. Ivy drew her cubby first, then a circle of children for circle time, then a swing for recess. "Those all stay the same," she said, and her shoulders loosened.
"Now the different part," said Ben. Ivy drew a smiling man with round glasses and wrote a big question mark beside him, then crossed it out. "He's just Mr. Lee," she decided. Cat stretched a paw across the paper, as if to approve.
The last square was a book, for story time. Ivy held up the finished strip. Five pictures, all in a row, with purple at the edges. It looked like a map of tomorrow, and she knew every stop. Now she only had to decide where it should live.
What does Ivy do with her finished schedule?
