The Long History of Tea with Year Three

We found out tea was first used in China 6 thousand years ago. It's the second most popular drink after water. Wow!

World wide there's only really two words for tea - either a variation of the word cha or a variation if the word tea.

Jaylee can write cha in mandarin:

What did we learn about the history of tea?

The leaves for tea come off a type of tree and they started collecting and grinding them -
Connor

When they pick the leaves they make a cake and then mix it with hot water and that
became tea - Jaylee

I did not know that it came from China - Theo

For a while they could only grow the tea leaves in China and then an English man stole
tea plants and growers and started growing tea in India - Indie

Tea won’t cure poisoning - Jayden

Tea has all different flavours - Evelyn

Tea was invented 6 thousand years ago - Janessa

A guy from England smuggled tea trees in to India - Andrea

Tea moved to different countries - Indie

The British wanted to grow tea as well - Indigo

You can use tea to make medicine - Indigo

There’s only two ways to say tea -Zoe

China and England had a war over tea - Claire

Next week we're going to learn about a very local type of tea discovered by Maori ...