Hurry Up, Alice!
Christobel Mattingley
Puffin Books, 1998
Alice is a sleepy head.
Every day she is last to wake up, last to get dressed and last to get in
the car.
Until one day her family went whale watching, she was the first to wake
up, the first to get dressed and the first one to get in the car.
Then she realised that it wasn't so good being first
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"Why do I always
have to hurry?" Alice asked herself.
Why does she?
| We think Alice has to
hurry because she is slow and dawdles and daydreams and that
she is annoying to her family and friends. St Hildas, WA |
| People are always telling
Alice to hurry up because she is a dawdler and she sometimes
deliberately disobeyed. Mrs Wright did not have to tell us to hurry up. M6HU, WA |
| Alice always has to hurry
up because she is a daydreamer, and she dawdles all the time.
Sometimes Alice stops to look at amazing things but then her family
says, 'Hurry up Alice.' She should hurry and be quicker so she
didn't have to hear 'Hurry up Alice!' The Chisholm Cheetahs, ACT |
| Alice has to hurry
because she's always late. She always takes her time, she's slow,
she dawdles, daydreams and is a slow-coach. She's not so interesting
in the things others are interested in. Everyone is waiting all the
time and they get bored, impatient, and angry at Alice. Speedy Rappers, NSW |
| Everyone is telling Alice
to hurry up because she is always daydreaming. Area 11 Rostrata |
Alice was a day dreamer and a dawdler. We think she needs to hurry up because she would always be last. She was always interested in all the things she saw and she was distracted by them St.Schol's Gold Rappers |
What did Alice do when
she got out of the car? Why?
| Alice got out of the car
.She waited for someone to say "Hurry up Alice". No one
did. Everyone had raced off. St Hildas, WA |
| When her family got out
of the car, Alice was still in the car. Her family wanted to lock
the door. St. Schol's Gold Rappers |
| We think that Alice felt
sad because no-one said 'Hurry up Alice'. That was the way that she
knew they had seen what she was doing. Alice had to call the others
to wait for her. We think the others were in a hurry to see the
whales. M6HU |
| When Alice got out of the
car she waited for someone to say "Hurry up Alice!" but no
one did. Then she got angry because no one took any notice of her.
Alice did this because she wanted attention. Area 11 Rostrata |
Why was Alice more excited
about finding the message in the bottle than seeing the whales?
| Alice was more excited about finding
the bottle because since she dawdled she found it. It took time to
get to her and she took time to go to it. She would have had to rush
to see the whales and she didn't so that's why she was more
excited. Chisholm Cheetahs |
| We think that Alice was very excited
because of two reasons. The first reason was because she did not see
any whales but she found the bottle. The second reason was because
the letter was from some one called Alice, and we think that Alice
might be 8 like the other Alice. M6HU |
Alice liked it because it was from South Africa. She didn't know that language and she wanted to learn that language. She had not seen a message in a bottle before. St. Schol's Gold Rappers |
| Alice was excited because she has
never opened a message in a bottle before. It might have come from a
different country. Alice thought it was especially for her. St Hildas Rappers |
What do you think was in the letter that
Alice in Australia wrote to Alice in South Africa?
| Hello Alice I found your letter at the
beach while we were whale watching. = Are there any whales in South
Africa? I live in Australia and I am 8 years = old. Please write
back love Australian Alice St Hildas, WA |
| We think that Alice in Australia wrote
that she was very excited to to find the bottle more than to find
the whales and that she wished her a happy birthday or she might
have asked what it is like in South Africa or about the weather down
there. Chisholm Cheetahs |
| Alice in Australia wrote to the person
who found the bottle and asked them to write back. She gave her name
and address. She must have told Alice in South Africa in the note
that it was her birthday. St. Schol's Gold Rappers |
