Child's confusing homework stumps the internet
Image: Facebook/Annie Jordan
The latest in Things Already Not Making Sense in 2018: A child's very confusing homework stumps the internet.
UK mum Annie Jordan shared her four-year-old daughter's very confusing homework task on Facebook this week.
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Take a look. Looks quite innocent, right? For the picture of the hat, write 'hat'. For the picture of the hen, write 'hen'. Easy.
Image: Facebook/Annie Jordan
Except then look at the last picture.
Yep, this one.
Image: Facebook/Annie Jordan
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What ... is that?
Or to be more specific, what thing-that-a-four-year-old-could-reasonably-be asked-to-think-of-and-spell is that?
It's the sort of thing that makes you wonder if the teacher was just having a bit of a laugh. You know, like how there are hidden puns for parents in Disney movies. Maybe this was joke homework.
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Annie's friends and followers weighed in with their thoughts, as reported by the Daily Mail.
One thought it could be 'ice': three letters.
Another suggested 'net', because this would match the 'consonant-vowel-consonant' remit of the worksheet.
(Don't forget, this is a bunch of adults, stumped by a kindergarten worksheet – and, one could argue, completely fairly.)
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'Rink' was rejected by the group for being a 'CVCC' combo.
But it was in fact, according to the Mail, confirmed by the teacher of Annie's daughter.
Someone (presumably someone with a phD in kindergarten worksheets) apparently then pointed out on Annie's post that if you measure the word in phonics, 'rink' does in fact fit the CVC pattern: r-i-nk.
Who knew? Certainly not me.
So there you go: one more mystery, put to bed.
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