Lesson Plan

Japanese Tea Ceremony Lesson Plan: Middles Edition

Explore the tea room, test whisking motions, and host a tea gathering with care.

This is the Middles Edition of Japanese Tea Ceremony: one ready-to-teach week written just for grades 4-6. Every day follows the same rhythm: Reading on Monday, Writing and Words on Tuesday, Science and Math on Wednesday, a Hands-on Project on Thursday, and Show and Tell on Friday.

The big question: How do harmony, respect, purity and tranquility shape a simple bowl of tea?

The Week

• Mon: Inside the Tea Room (Reading) • Tue: Four Big Ideas (Writing & Words) • Wed: The Whisk Lab (Science & Math) • Thu: Seasonal Sweets in Clay (Hands-on Project) • Fri: Host a Tea Gathering (Show & Tell)

Teaching more than one level? The all-levels edition of Japanese Tea Ceremony has Littles (K-3), Middles (4-6) and Bigs (7-8) in one file, so siblings or a mixed classroom can study the same topic together.

Perfect for homeschool families, grade 4-6 classrooms, co-ops and substitute plans.

What's inside

• 5 ready-to-teach days for Middles (grades 4-6), about 60 to 90 minutes a day
• Lab sheet: The Whisk Lab
• Sequence cards (A Guest's Steps) and a cut-and-sort page (Host, Guest or Both?)
• Writing page: Harmony in My Day
• Hands-on project: Seasonal Wagashi and a Scroll
• Word search, crossword, scramble and secret code puzzles
• 8 fact cards, 9 vocabulary cards and a book list of 4 titles
• A certificate and an answer key for the grown-up

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