Can you answer this 4-year-old’s tricky homework question?
For most parents helping their 4-year-old with homework, they would not expect to be left scratching their heads.
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.
According to the Daily Mail, 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!”
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.
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.
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).
Annie later confirmed (in all capitals, just to be super clear) that, “TEACHER CONFIRMED IT IS RINK.”
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.”
Can’t we just go back to finger-painting please? Do you think this was too hard for a 4-year-old?