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Puxi Grade 3: The Fragrance of A Cup of Jasmine Tea

September 19, 2017

Puxi Grade 3: The Fragrance of A Cup of Jasmine Tea

In native level Chinese class this week, the kids in Puxi’s third grade read an article called Jasmine. This article describes how the writer bought and took care of a jasmine plant with his mom. They looked forward to seeing the blooming of jasmine and tasting the jasmine tea happily together. It not only describes the changing mood of the writer but also describes the lovely buds, with beautiful color as white as snow, and its refreshing fragrance. It brought them the joy of beauty. At least, the mother and child enjoyed the tea together.

In Thursday’s Chinese class, when the teachers took out teacups and a box of jasmine tea, the students opened their eyes widely in surprise. During this class, all the kids in third grade tasted the delicate smell and the sweet, smooth flavor of jasmine tea. When the hot water went into the cups, jasmine flowers scattered and sent forth a pleasant scent. The kids exclaimed that “It smells so good!” They tasted the tea, feeling same as the writer once did.

This was a vivid, sensory Chinese class. After drinking the tea, the kids recited the paragraph which described the jasmine flowers in the article by themselves. If you had been there, you might have wondered whether the sweet smell in the classroom was the smell of the beautiful sentences, or the smell of jasmine tea.

(Written by Stella Su Picture by Ellen Zhang and Jamie Li)