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Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

07 Jan 2011

We are dancing to this song today! The house is freezing, except for the “front room” where the southern exposure lets the light stream in. Lucy is doing the “Lucy Shimmy”.

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~ Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (liner notes written by Mark Lewisohn)
Inspired by a painting by his almost four-year-old son Julian, who gave his work of art the same title, ‘Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds’ swiftly evolved into a kind of Lennon musical vision of Alice In Wonderland. The basic track, overdubs and mixing were all effected at different speeds giving the song an ethereal quality in keeping with the imaginative lyrics. Recording commenced in studio two at Abbey Road on March 1 1967. Album version mixed from take eight. Writer: John. Lead vocal: John. Producer: George Martin. Recording engineer: Geoff Emerick. Second engineer: Richard Lush.

Kindergarten Update

08 Oct 2010

We got a schedule this week! I was just thinking how nice it would be to have one, and then one came home in the back pack! I usually ask Oscar what he did each day when we’re driving home, or at dinner. Now that I have the schedule I can prompt him a little.

Some of the reports are probably only interesting to parents, but here are some examples just in case.

  • “Jacob is getting better, but Robbie is still really bad. He still does that Roaring thing and gets in trouble..  And he still tells Jacob to get Ashley. So now he got Ariel and Jacob in trouble.” {FYI, Robbie is an adorable little blond headed sweetie pie that stands in front of O. at the morning bell.}
  • “Math is numbers. From Italian we know how to count from Uno to Dieci.  Okay it goes like this: “Uno, due, tre, quattro, cinque, sei, sette, otto, nove, dieci. That’s it.”
  • “So PE. We have new games, and some games we’ve played before. My favorite one is Monkey in the Coconut Tree.”
  • “We don’t have very much Free Choice. It matters if we’re being good, we can have it, and if we’re being bad we can’t have it.”
  • “So Journal. I don’t usually get to do that because I have work to finish. Most people have to finish their work during journal time. The work we’re finishing is from some other day. Like if we’re doing a connect the dot, and we didn’t get to finish coloring it.”
  • “Cafeteria is too loud.”
  • “The last thing I want to tell you about is Recess.  Today, at the last recess, I was looking around for children who were playing violence and doing bad things. I’m helping my teacher see people who are doing things that get them in trouble. I’m trying to help Ruth so no one gets hurt from the violence. {How much violence was there today??} Nothing. I mean none. But I was looking for it anyways. Because you never know when it will happen.”
  • {And did you sing about pancakes today?} “Uh huh. It goes like this….