Irresponsible text on homework

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DD1 is in Year 1 and got a weird text for her homework.

The text is about a boy who wakes up in the middle of the night and sneaks into the kitchen to eat chocolate cake.

AIBU to think this is totally inappropriate and irresponsible?.... These kids are 5/6 years old, they don't need to be encouraged to have this kind of unhealthy and also deceitful behaviour (the boy complains the floor creaks and is going to wake up his parents).

It's a Michael Rosen poem and the mother gets upset with the boy in the morning when she finds out. However the excerpt in the homework doesn't include this last part.

It's quite a fun poem but for older children who know better..... and maybe not something to show at school....

This did make me laugh! OP not everything in life has to be serious and awful - it’s a fun children's poem! Lighten up please

Secret Seven and Famous Five will send poor op apocalyptic.

Unclench.

I'm ever happier to no longer be teaching.

I completely agree OP and don’t think you deserve the stick you are getting here. My DD was read a story called how to hide a lion shortly before a zoo trip, guess what I found under her bed the next day…

Surely you spoke to the adult distributing such poison about their error and they were very grateful for your timely intervention?

My favourite book when I was 7 was The Wind in the Willows. The number of cars I crashed throughout primary school!

You’re hilarious.

Oh no 🙈 then they will need to have a conversation about consent

Filthy fucker.

Just wanted to post the poem :) 🍰

She's presumably at a state school, OP? This wouldn't happen if you went private. [headtilt]

Lol

I hope Michael Rosen reads Mumsnet 😂😂😂

Hear it?

We performed it a verse each as a class, aged 8 ish, for our end of summer concert! Obligatory for northern schools in the 80s surely?

'Then Pa, who had seen the occurrence,
And didn't know what to do next,
Said 'Mother! Yon Lion's 'et Albert',
And Mother said 'Well, I am vexed!'

I'll never forget mine :D :D I've obviously been traumatised by it ever since.

Surely a wind up!

"There was no wrecks and nobody drowneded; i'fact, nothin' to laugh at at all!"

My er... great great grandmother taught me it.
Oh yes.

Oh no. I hate it when that happens! 😡

Dear god 😂😂😂

And now I want chocolate cake, thanks a lot!

Thank you for this, haven't read it since primary school! :D

Wait til she gets Lord of the Flies

Oi, I feel old enough as it is! Albert and the Lion was my late OH's end of term party piece, he would hold the entire school enthralled, I allowed it even though he was a Yorkshireman!

😂

I work in KS1 and agree that that that poem is far too abstract for Y1 children to really get to grips with. It's written from the perspective of an adult reminiscing about their childhood which they really wouldn't be able to grasp. We expect far too much of them. I'm in Y2 at t he moment and the teacher has so far been reading Harry Potter, now Charlie and the Chocolate factory. The school is a high achieving one nationally, but even so these texts are beyond quite a few in the class- they couldn't read them fluently enough and nor do they have the worldly experience to understand the subtleties of these texts to grasp the humour, or the irony in them. Why do we force kids to do things earlier and earlier? Harry Potter is best for 10+ and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at least 8+. There are some great picture around books and easier short chapter books for 5,6 and 7 year olds- let children enjoy books better by not forcing them onto them too young!

I wouldn't be bothered about the stealing cake issue though....

I was once re-tweeted by Michael Rosen, and it was a proud moment indeed. Anyone who complains about a Michael Rosen poem is a wrongun.