How to Help First Graders Make a Cup of Tea
- 1). Rinse out the tea kettle and fill it up with fresh water. Boil the water over high heat. The water must be very hot in order to extract the tea contents from the leaves. Make sure to advise your students not to touch any part of the stove, or any part of the tea kettle, other than its handle.
- 2). Warm 1/2 milk over medium heat, using a saucepan. Sit the saucepan out of the way, so as not to spill it while preparing the rest of the tea's ingredients.
- 3). Pour the warmed milk into each of the two tea cups, then add a teaspoon of honey to each of the cups. Stir the honey into the milk until it has completely dissolved. Explain to the students that honey is a natural sweetener, and that for some people, it improves the overall taste of the tea.
- 4). Place a tea bag into each of the two tea cups, then slowly pour the the hot water from the kettle into each of the cups. Show your students that pouring the water slowly will keep them from spilling the hot water, which could scald them if it were to splash onto their skin.
- 5). Show your students how to steep the tea bag by slowly lifting the bag's string up then lowering it back down again. Instruct the students to repeat this step for a few minutes until the tea is to the desired strength. Show them how to remove the bags from the water and properly dispose of them, and then wait until tea cools enough for them to drink it. Repeat steps one through five for all of your students, so that each of them can experience their first cup of tea. The repetition will also help the students retain the steps more effectively.
