Can you answer this 4-year-old’s tricky homework question?
<p>For most parents helping their 4-year-old with homework, they would not expect to be left scratching their heads.</p>
<p>But a mother from Plymouth in the UK has taken to social media to ask for help when she was left stumped by her daughter’s worksheet.</p>
<p>According to the <em><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5280313/Tricky-homework-question-leaves-parents-stumped.html" target="_blank">Daily Mail</a></strong></span></em>, Annie Jordan shared a snap of the homework on Facebook, with the message, “Right please someone tell me what the last one is, because I literally don’t have a clue!”</p>
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<p>The worksheet saw the children writing CVC words (consonant-vowel-consonant) on the right-hand side by looking at the image on the left side.</p>
<p>Annie’s daughter had filled in words like pan, tap, hat, rat and hen – but it was the last one that she had sought help with. It appeared to be an ice rink set up for ice hockey, with a net at one end.</p>
<p>Comments poured in with suggestions such as ‘ice’, ‘rink’, ‘net’ or ‘wet’ with some commenting that ‘ice’ didn’t have a vowel in the middle and ‘rink’ didn’t seem to fit with the rest of the answers (all three-letter words).</p>
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<p>Annie later confirmed (in all capitals, just to be super clear) that, “TEACHER CONFIRMED IT IS RINK.”</p>
<p>Thankfully someone else explained how this fits with the other answers by saying, “In phonics this would count as a CvC as three sounds r i nk.”</p>
<p>Can’t we just go back to finger-painting please? Do you think this was too hard for a 4-year-old?</p>
