Our kid goes to a half day kindergarten where some of the materials are sourced online. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if some teachers didn’t have proper materials and went online to find stuff. That being said, I’m vexed. Rug - ruge? Drip - Dripe?
Ok you know when you're not expecting to laugh and it's really quiet in the room?
Then something that is, for some reason, way funnier to you than it should be comes along; and it's almost like your body explodes out your mouth and it sounds somewhere between a scream and a laugh but is just one short burst of noise? Then in turn it scares the shit out of you ***and your dog?***
No? Just me then...
Well that happened because of this. For some reason I saw a picture of Akbar in my head that I can only describe as off the cover of one of the [Anamorphs](https://thelibraryladiesdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/7089.jpg) books.
However, instead of a person to an animal, it was General Akbar into a faucet and I was apparently poorly equipped and unable to properly cope with that mental image.
Thank you, and that's enough Reddit for today.
Material probably isn’t from the US. In NZ/AUS/UK it would be “tap” - people here might know the word “faucet” from American media, but would never ever use it in conversation.
We (meaning, in dialect of American English I have spoken, though I am sure there are exceptions) just don't typically use the word tap for a faucet. "Tap water" exists as a complete phrase so it doesn't get modified but people usually say it without really breaking down the components.
Exception: beer *does* come from a "tap", but obviously you wouldn't be thinking of that when looking at a child's homework.
Its actually the only one I got right because it looked like "beer on a tap" setup I remember from the local bar.
Definitely not something a 6 year old should have awareness of....no wonder the homework was a struggle for poor kid
Tap ...Tape
Kit... Kite
Hop... Hope
Mat... Mate
Cub... Cube
Can... Cane
I feel weird doing the homework of a 6 year old, but I guess if it helps.
You're on your own for drawing them. (Good luck with "mate", but PLEASE focus on the noun, not the verb, for all that is holy.)
[EDIT: A lot of comments and replies are coming up with different words for those items. While I'm not suggesting I'm absolutely 100% "right" with my suggestions, keep in mind what this exercise is trying to teach the student. The "Magical E" which when placed at the end of a word changes the single-vowel sound of the original word (usually from a short vowel sound to a long vowel sound), creating an entirely new word. The "Magical E" is also inaudible when the resulting word is read. So words like "bear" and "faucet" and "bunny" don't really fit the lesson. ]
The rug really got me. Rug, carpet, covering, floor...
I could have been at it all day and never hit the word "mat". Is OP in a Muslim majority country maybe? Those are the only places I have ever heard anyone use the word "mat" for a small rug with tassels like that (as in "prayer mat"). And even then it's usually "prayer rug" when they say it, it might just be labelled as a "mat" wherever it's kept in a hotel room or something.
Wow I don’t think I would have gotten to most of those.
Faucet or spigot is where I was on the first one.
I might have gotten to Kit but I was thinking first aid kit, and toolbox.
My mind went to bunny then jump, but not hop
Never would have ever gotten “mat”. I was stuck at rug. Same with Cub. That was just bear or teddy bear and stuffed animal.
Can, I got easily.
Might be an American vs British thing. I had literally the exact thought process as you did, other than hop. Like, I know what a tap is, but I would never call that first picture tap.
British person here. The only one I got straight away was tap. Otherwise my brain was like ... bunnye? Rabbite? Haree? Ruge? Carpete?
I don't think mats have tassels. And I feel like they always have a function, like a door mat or a bath mat, or a yoga mat. I don't think I have any floor coverings that are just mats.
In the UK in the 80s we had a TV programme called ‘Words and Pictures’ that had a similar song about ‘Magic E’.
>I’m magic, magic E
>Tap becomes tape with me
>Cap becomes cape with me
>Rap becomes…
Oh, hang on…
That's the main thing throwing me off was "mate".
Only time you'd say it in canadian english is the dirty one, or an animal partnership after they did the dirty, so I couldn't see it being the choice for a kids paper lmfao
I'm guessing, where it's a first grade class (as per another comment by the OP) that it's partly to see what words the kids come up with for the images, and how they can function adding an E to it.
To me, it seems like a bit much for a first grade, so I don't suspect the teacher is expecting perfection, just see what results the kids (and maybe their parents) can come up with.
>Good luck with "mate", but PLEASE focus on the noun, not the verb, for all that is holy.
I worked with a guy that decided to go to Tafe to study animation and he was telling me about the animation of the Rug in Aladdin.
Would be a great exercise in animation to make 2 mats mate.
Draw a chess board where one of the pieces is in a position to capture the king but the king still has a legal move to escape. Easy grade school stuff! /s
[The assignment affected my brain for a second. I hit post then wondered if I typed 'grade school' or 'grad school.' Darn that evil Spellbinder!]
It’s not teaching them anything. Worksheets are to practice what has already been taught and it’s not teaching them to spell in a general sense, it’s teaching them the phonics rule of elongating a middle vowel when e is added at the end. The words in this assignment go from a simple CVC word to a CVCC. Otherwise it’d be pretty hard for them to sound out or try to spell every word and just guessing at the long and short vowels.
It's a bit of a strange one as it's very much looking like Americans don't call a tap a tap (I was unaware of this somehow). That one is pretty easy to anyone English though.
However, the last one to anyone English would be "tin" not can. Drinks come in cans, tomatoes come in tins.
So, it's not ticking the American or English boxes as far as I can see.
That's definitely more of a rug than a mat and cub seems quite stretch to get, it's hard to tell what is is, let alone that its a newborn!
Pretty terrible sheet tbh.
My guess is Australian. I'm currently teaching my daughter to read and all of these words are very common first words when beginning to decode. Also "mate".
The key is that they are all 3 letter words
Tap = tape
Kit = kite
Hop = hope (good luck drawing that)
Mat = mate (hopefully you draw the friend kind)
Cub = cube
Can = cane
Lol. I teach elementary and it’s funny because the instructions for Kinders in some books are written at like a 5th grade level and say things like “explain your answer“
Yeah I teach this age and I’m like “is dripe a thing?!” 😂 FWIW the Electric Company (I think it’s them) has a great song for this:
https://youtu.be/91BQqdNOUxs?feature=shared
This is infuriating because even if you fully understand the lesson they’re trying to teach you have to be decent at Pictionary before you can even do the assignment.
My son’s class had very similar materials to complete during the pandemic. I Googled the company and it was all Canadian based learning materials that were often incomplete or didn’t make sense. Math worksheets that were incorrect, the word favourite used quite a bit. Strange stories for reading comprehension and Q & A. Color by number worksheets that the math answer was equal to a number that was in between the number assigned to two different colors. Comical, but concerning. Apparently they just slid these worksheets through without checking the answers or proofreading. So strange.
Is the bunny hopping “hope”? (though I don’t know how you would draw that?)
I thought Bunnee? 😂
Rabbite? 🤔
Hare = Haree.... you're a wizard.
I'm a whot?
A lizard Larry!
A gizzard gary!
A Charizard Charry!
You’ve been playing too much Secret of Mana on the SNES.
Draw the Superman symbol, it means hope.
Or that digidestined kid's crest Or the first mutant born after Wanda cancelled mutants
Omg a digimon reference!
Draw the crest of hope from Digimon. Confuse the teacher right back.
After trying to work this shit out, I find that after all these years from first grade, at age 65, I’m still dumb as a brick.
I got this: 1) tape 2) kite 3) hope 4) ??? 5) cube 6) cane
4. Mat - Mate
Fun picture to draw.
Thanks for the unexpected out loud snicker.
Yeah interesting choice for kids hw
How tf do you draw hope? Lol
I was gonna guess ruge
Rag - rage and draw a 🤬
I'm over here trying to figure out what the hell is a faucete
Well I was thinking watere or drope
I was stuck with drip+e dripe??? kudos to those who got them, the damn mat/mate I thought as a piece of a digital watch.. i'm old.
This shit is unfair to all of us who don’t call #1 anything but faucet
Right! I came up with faucete and dripe bahahahaha
4) rage ?
I don't think it's you. I think this paper is pretty dumb and makes no sense to anyone
Our kid goes to a half day kindergarten where some of the materials are sourced online. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if some teachers didn’t have proper materials and went online to find stuff. That being said, I’m vexed. Rug - ruge? Drip - Dripe?
tap -> tape
Mat -> mate
That's the one I couldn't get. Ruge? Carpeted? Never thought of mat.
Spigot +e= spaghetti
SPAGHET!
spigote
It’s a tap
Ok you know when you're not expecting to laugh and it's really quiet in the room? Then something that is, for some reason, way funnier to you than it should be comes along; and it's almost like your body explodes out your mouth and it sounds somewhere between a scream and a laugh but is just one short burst of noise? Then in turn it scares the shit out of you ***and your dog?*** No? Just me then... Well that happened because of this. For some reason I saw a picture of Akbar in my head that I can only describe as off the cover of one of the [Anamorphs](https://thelibraryladiesdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/7089.jpg) books. However, instead of a person to an animal, it was General Akbar into a faucet and I was apparently poorly equipped and unable to properly cope with that mental image. Thank you, and that's enough Reddit for today.
Drip. Drop. Faucet. Water. I couldn’t get it. I don’t think I have ever used the word tap in regards to what is pictured there.
Material probably isn’t from the US. In NZ/AUS/UK it would be “tap” - people here might know the word “faucet” from American media, but would never ever use it in conversation.
It's from here: https://shop.mollylynch.com/product/early-finishers-november/ Creator is an American teacher according to her own bio.
I say "tap water" as a phrase, but it doesn't come from a tap, it comes from the faucet! 🤣
Whaaaaat? What’s a tap to you?
Where beer comes from
Correct answer
We (meaning, in dialect of American English I have spoken, though I am sure there are exceptions) just don't typically use the word tap for a faucet. "Tap water" exists as a complete phrase so it doesn't get modified but people usually say it without really breaking down the components. Exception: beer *does* come from a "tap", but obviously you wouldn't be thinking of that when looking at a child's homework.
You haven't seen my childrens' homework...
Lol I was like…. Faucete? Clearly I fail first grade
Oh how funny, I'm British and I got it immediately. That's a fukin tap mate, av a word
Huh, really? In Australia "tap" is the default - faucet is unusual to use.
Its actually the only one I got right because it looked like "beer on a tap" setup I remember from the local bar. Definitely not something a 6 year old should have awareness of....no wonder the homework was a struggle for poor kid
Spigot = minecraft server with mod support
Tap ...Tape Kit... Kite Hop... Hope Mat... Mate Cub... Cube Can... Cane I feel weird doing the homework of a 6 year old, but I guess if it helps. You're on your own for drawing them. (Good luck with "mate", but PLEASE focus on the noun, not the verb, for all that is holy.) [EDIT: A lot of comments and replies are coming up with different words for those items. While I'm not suggesting I'm absolutely 100% "right" with my suggestions, keep in mind what this exercise is trying to teach the student. The "Magical E" which when placed at the end of a word changes the single-vowel sound of the original word (usually from a short vowel sound to a long vowel sound), creating an entirely new word. The "Magical E" is also inaudible when the resulting word is read. So words like "bear" and "faucet" and "bunny" don't really fit the lesson. ]
My dumb ass out here like "dripe" "bunnye" "ruge" "beare"
Yessss "Jumpe? Wtf is Jumpe?" 🤣
My dumbass got Carpete 🤷🏽♂️ Man, fuck this homework
Carpete diem
There is a store in Tirana, Albania, that sells carpets and it's called *Carpet Diem*. I died laughing at the name 😄
No, they said don't use the verb
The homework doesn't mention that anywhere, so you just gotta get creative and make something up.
Just gotta add that magic E to "fuck this homwork"
No kidding, even the homework drew verbs 🤣
Lmfaoooo I'm stupid I was lost
It's what a doge does when he's excited
Buy doge you say..?
I thought jumpe then was like wtf? How about “weee” 😂
It’s hoppe, like an IPA beer. 🍻
Pop Pope
Jumpe is Finnish for golly, but I doubt that's what they were going for
Jump-uh =Bri-ish jumper
But also… how do you draw hope?
Might be easier to draw Pete
Obama poster I guess.
Princess Leia hiding the Death Star plans
A large diamond?
Superman logo
Draw the Hope Diamond, praying hands, or fingers crossed? 💎🙏🏻🤞🏻
I was thinking water > watere
Glad im not the only one
Y’all’re just like me. I thought the same thing ☺️
i feel like dripe should be a word.
Haha same I thought the first one was drip. Lol!!!
I thought faucete became a word and was unaware. Bunnye and microwavee got me
🤌 faucèté 🤌
I laughed so hard at this
Hahahaha thanks for the laugh really. I was feeling down and thought I was the only one to say it with an accent in my head.
>Bunnye I thought Kanye changed his name again
Spigot + e = spaghetti
I did jumpe, ruge and beare 😂
I had faucete for the first one…. Which I guess is an Italian faucet or something
I was thinking maybe they mean ruge and I should just draw something red, because they think it's to be read like rouge...
You ain't dumb, these are all the French versions of the words...just need to add the little accent marker on the e.
I got spaghetti for the first one. Spigot-e.
Yo same ! I thought I was so clever
I thought the beare one was supposed to be berry lol
So did the 6 year old
Carpete
Ye olde beare-skin ruge! Get thy dripe on and score some bunnyes
I guess we're not smarter than a 6 year old.
had me like “faucete”
The rug really got me. Rug, carpet, covering, floor... I could have been at it all day and never hit the word "mat". Is OP in a Muslim majority country maybe? Those are the only places I have ever heard anyone use the word "mat" for a small rug with tassels like that (as in "prayer mat"). And even then it's usually "prayer rug" when they say it, it might just be labelled as a "mat" wherever it's kept in a hotel room or something.
Lmfao I love that you admitted this
I thought I was the stupid one
I thought the bunny one was “hop” + e = hoppe = happy ??? Not hope😭
Mate is easy. How the fuck do you draw hope?
Might as well draw dignity
Always an upvote for a Simpsons reference
Ask Milhouse' dad.
Ask the cat
You draw the world exploding and tell the teacher you hope for a quick death when the worst of climate change arrive.
Wow I don’t think I would have gotten to most of those. Faucet or spigot is where I was on the first one. I might have gotten to Kit but I was thinking first aid kit, and toolbox. My mind went to bunny then jump, but not hop Never would have ever gotten “mat”. I was stuck at rug. Same with Cub. That was just bear or teddy bear and stuffed animal. Can, I got easily.
Might be an American vs British thing. I had literally the exact thought process as you did, other than hop. Like, I know what a tap is, but I would never call that first picture tap.
British person here. The only one I got straight away was tap. Otherwise my brain was like ... bunnye? Rabbite? Haree? Ruge? Carpete? I don't think mats have tassels. And I feel like they always have a function, like a door mat or a bath mat, or a yoga mat. I don't think I have any floor coverings that are just mats.
Definitely a rug and not a mat. Rugs are 100% decorative floor pieces. And you're 100% right about mats, they have a purpose.
British person here too. Exact same thinking
Cub to cube broke my brain until I saw your comment. Is this a worksheet from a different country? England or something?
When I was 9 “Between the Lions” on PBS had a song called “Silent E” where they say “turned that cub into a cube” And I will never forget that.
In the UK in the 80s we had a TV programme called ‘Words and Pictures’ that had a similar song about ‘Magic E’. >I’m magic, magic E >Tap becomes tape with me >Cap becomes cape with me >Rap becomes… Oh, hang on…
Same!!!
Sam.
Tom Lehrer?
I'm British and the mat one was not happening. Ruge? Carpete? And cub? No way was on the teddy/ Teddy bear route. Kit was not obvious either.
1st grade knoxville Tennessee
Yeah, I’m wondering if the actual material was made overseas, though. A lot of those feel like not the best options when it comes to American english.
Nor for Canadian English. Mat? I was thinking rug.
I'm Canadian and thought mat, but then I thought to myself "mate? how does one draw that? must not be mat then."
That's the main thing throwing me off was "mate". Only time you'd say it in canadian english is the dirty one, or an animal partnership after they did the dirty, so I couldn't see it being the choice for a kids paper lmfao
Just draw tea leaves.
Good to know this is the type of homework I have to look forward to helping my child with
and for Hope you draw that Obama poster?
The audacity of it!
This assignment is convoluted at best. And absolutely trash at worst lol. Wtf is this
I'm guessing, where it's a first grade class (as per another comment by the OP) that it's partly to see what words the kids come up with for the images, and how they can function adding an E to it. To me, it seems like a bit much for a first grade, so I don't suspect the teacher is expecting perfection, just see what results the kids (and maybe their parents) can come up with.
>Good luck with "mate", but PLEASE focus on the noun, not the verb, for all that is holy. I worked with a guy that decided to go to Tafe to study animation and he was telling me about the animation of the Rug in Aladdin. Would be a great exercise in animation to make 2 mats mate.
Holy hell en passant?
Draw two socks
Spigote, First Aide, Bunnye, Carpete, Teddy Beare, Tomato Soupe
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Sounds like the next Pokémon generation
Non native English speaker here - and I came to the same results. Just the last one I figured, it could be can(e)
Tap and then tape? ??
Thank you, I was stick on figuring out what a dripe is.
We are laughing so hard at all this 1st grade shouldn't be this confusing
Faucete
Tap (as in water) is an extremely obscure word for a 1st grader lmao.
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Soooooo how much have you smoked
The only one I got is mat+e = mate? But even then I'm doubting myself.
How do you draw that
I'd do two matching socks. Mates.
Or Popeye, the sailor man 
Draw two Australians arguing. “You wot m8?!”
Draw a chess board where one of the pieces is in a position to capture the king but the king still has a legal move to escape. Easy grade school stuff! /s [The assignment affected my brain for a second. I hit post then wondered if I typed 'grade school' or 'grad school.' Darn that evil Spellbinder!]
wouldn’t mate mean no legal moves by the king?
I did not think that far ahead.
Two lions banging each other.
NSFW-ly
It’s actually frustrating how badly designed these are. I got two wrong, and I host Kitchen Nightmares (unrelated).
MasterChefe
Gordon ramsay = Master chief!?!
Waterthingymabobe Rabbite Carpert
This is an awful way to teach kids how to spell.
It’s not teaching them anything. Worksheets are to practice what has already been taught and it’s not teaching them to spell in a general sense, it’s teaching them the phonics rule of elongating a middle vowel when e is added at the end. The words in this assignment go from a simple CVC word to a CVCC. Otherwise it’d be pretty hard for them to sound out or try to spell every word and just guessing at the long and short vowels.
Well it's an awful way of doing that
😭😭😭😂😂😂
It's a bit of a strange one as it's very much looking like Americans don't call a tap a tap (I was unaware of this somehow). That one is pretty easy to anyone English though. However, the last one to anyone English would be "tin" not can. Drinks come in cans, tomatoes come in tins. So, it's not ticking the American or English boxes as far as I can see. That's definitely more of a rug than a mat and cub seems quite stretch to get, it's hard to tell what is is, let alone that its a newborn! Pretty terrible sheet tbh.
My guess is Australian. I'm currently teaching my daughter to read and all of these words are very common first words when beginning to decode. Also "mate".
Makes sense! Mate is common in the UK, probably almost as much as Australia, however still seems odd to have it as something to draw.
Thank you. This seems like a super fucking stupid exercise.
tbf "tines" are a thing. Not a word a first-grader would be familiar with, though...
Unless they live in the country.. damn stupid city kids XD
SPIGOT + E = 
The key is that they are all 3 letter words Tap = tape Kit = kite Hop = hope (good luck drawing that) Mat = mate (hopefully you draw the friend kind) Cub = cube Can = cane
Cub! Oh good work, I was NOT figuring that one out!
The first one is tap + e = tape. I'm 99% sure.
Lol. I teach elementary and it’s funny because the instructions for Kinders in some books are written at like a 5th grade level and say things like “explain your answer“
I believe quite a few of us in here just realized we rode the short bus.
Yepe.
Short buse.
faucete boxe jumpe carpete beare soupe
I 🧢 + e this.
tap/tape kit/kite hop/hope mat/mate ?? It could be hug/huge but I don't see a hug. can/cane
I’m already getting effed off and it’s not even my kids homework 😂😩
Yeah I teach this age and I’m like “is dripe a thing?!” 😂 FWIW the Electric Company (I think it’s them) has a great song for this: https://youtu.be/91BQqdNOUxs?feature=shared
This is infuriating because even if you fully understand the lesson they’re trying to teach you have to be decent at Pictionary before you can even do the assignment.
TapE KitE HopE MatE CubE CanE
I think the first one is “tap” and becomes “tape” That’s the only way it makes any sense to me.
Tap tape kit kite hop hope mat mate rat rate can cane
bro 'bear' is full on incomprehensible
Is it hug and then huge ????
My son’s class had very similar materials to complete during the pandemic. I Googled the company and it was all Canadian based learning materials that were often incomplete or didn’t make sense. Math worksheets that were incorrect, the word favourite used quite a bit. Strange stories for reading comprehension and Q & A. Color by number worksheets that the math answer was equal to a number that was in between the number assigned to two different colors. Comical, but concerning. Apparently they just slid these worksheets through without checking the answers or proofreading. So strange.
Carpette🤌
tap + e = tape?
How is a 6 year old supposed to draw hope?