Log July 21, 2010

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Date	Minutes Spent Tagging	Activity	Notes	TAG Points	Comments/ Lessons learned
07/21/10	15	Tennis	The serve is coming a long nicely. I noticed that the kid teaching the lessons is now breaking the serve into smaller parts for kids.		see July 12 for more instructions and details. Today was the Kidlet 's last lesson for the summer. I'll need to get her out once a week or so to work on her serve. She'll have more lessons in the fall. One of the communities has free clinics on Saturdays. We will make as many as we can.
07/21/10		Karate / On the Road	We reviewed the 25 techniques.		I did not tag. The Kidlet preformed all 25 techniques from a set of shuffled the cards every place that we stopped today.
07/21/10	5	Cello	The Kidlet is working on the proper way to hold her body while playing her cello.	Tag Point: Left Elbow UP I marked the tags 20 times each with a loud box clicker so that she could hear it over her playing.	The Kidlet's cello teacher asked if I would help the Kidlet to remember to hold her left elbow out away from her body. Elbows should flap like the wings of a bird, she said. We will work on that this week.
07/21/10	10	Karate	We reviewed the 25 techniques.	Tag point: Victim Stance Tag point: Eyes to nose Tag point: Repeat Tag point: Check I marked her with a box clicker	The Kidlet preformed all 25 techniques from a set of shuffled the cards. I shuffled after each time through the cards. I TAGged a different point.
07/21/10		Karate / Results	We will resume learning techniques in two weeks after the Kidlet returns from vacation.		The Kidlet preformed all 25 techniques in class tonight, without error, and earned her Blue belt. She needs to know 53 before her next test which she can take in early November.

Log July 20, 2010

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Date	Minutes Spent Tagging	Activity	Notes	TAG Points	Comments/ Lessons learned
07/20/10	15	Tennis	The serve is coming a long nicely. I noticed that the kid teaching the lessons is now breaking the serve into smaller parts for kids.		see July 12 for more instructions and details.
07/20/10		Karate / On the Road	We reviewed the 25 techniques.		I did not tag. The Kidlet preformed all 25 techniques from a set of shuffled the cards every place that we stopped today.
07/20/10	5	Cello	The Kidlet is working on the proper way to hold her body while playing her cello.	Tag Point: Left Elbow UP I marked the tags 20 times each with a loud box clicker so that she could hear it over her playing.	The Kidlet's cello teacher asked if I would help the Kidlet to remember to hold her left elbow out away from her body. Elbows should flap like the wings of a bird, she said. We will work on that this week.
07/20/10	10	Karate	We reviewed the 25 techniques.	Tag point: Victim Stance Tag point: Eyes to nose Tag point: Repeat Tag point: Check I marked her with a box clicker.	The Kidlet preformed all 25 techniques from a set of shuffled the cards. I shuffled after each time through the cards. I TAGged a different point.

Log July 18, 2010

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Date	Minutes Spent Tagging	Activity	Notes	TAG Points	Comments/ Lessons learned
07/18/10	5	Cello	The Kidlet is working on the proper way to hold her body while playing her cello.	Tag Point: Left Elbow UP I marked the tags 20 times each with a loud box clicker so that she could hear it over her playing.	The Kidlet's cello teacher asked if I would help the Kidlet to remember to hold her left elbow out away from her body. Elbows should flap like the wings of a bird, she said. We will work on that this week.
07/18/10	10	Karate	We reviewed the 25 techniques.	Tag point: Victim Stance Tag point: Eyes to nose Tag point: Repeat Tag point: Check I marked her with a box clicker saying the name of the technique before preforming each one.	The Kidlet preformed all 25 techniques from a set of shuffled the cards. I shuffled after each time through the cards. The first time I gave her the direction to stand up straight, look me in the eye and say the name of the technique after I say it. Then she was to preform the technique. I clicked her for standing up straight. They call this the victim stance in her class. Tag point: Victim Stance The second time we did the stack I gave her the direction to stand up straight, look me in the eye and say the name of the technique after I say it. I clicked her for looking at my nose as I said the name of the technique and she repeated it back to me. Tag point: Eyes to nose The third time we did the stack I gave her the direction to stand up straight, look me in the eye and say the name of the technique after I say it. Tag point: Repeat The fourth time I gave her the direction make sure that she checks with the non working hand. Tag point: Check The fifth time I did not TAG.
07/18/10		Karate / On the Road	We reviewed the 25 techniques.		I did not tag. The Kidlet preformed all 25 techniques from a set of shuffled the cards every place that we stopped today.

Log July 17, 2010

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Date	Minutes Spent Tagging	Activity	Notes	TAG Points	Comments/ Lessons learned
07/17/10	5	Cello	The Kidlet is working on the proper way to hold her body while playing her cello.	Tag Point: Left Elbow UP I marked the tags 20 times each with a loud box clicker so that she could hear it over her playing.	The Kidlet's cello teacher asked if I would help the Kidlet to remember to hold her left elbow out away from her body. Elbows should flap like the wings of a bird, she said. We will work on that this week.
07/17/10		Karate / On the Road	We reviewed the 25 techniques.		I did not tag. The Kidlet preformed all 25 techniques from a set of shuffled the cards every place that we stopped today.
07/17/10	10	Karate	We reviewed the 25 techniques.	Tag point: Victim Stance Tag point: Eyes to nose Tag point: Repeat Tag point: Check I marked her with a box clicker saying the name of the technique before preforming each one.	The Kidlet preformed all 25 techniques from a set of shuffled the cards. I shuffled after each time through the cards. The first time I gave her the direction to stand up straight, look me in the eye and say the name of the technique after I say it. Then she was to preform the technique. I clicked her for standing up straight. They call this the victim stance in her class. Tag point: Victim Stance The second time we did the stack I gave her the direction to stand up straight, look me in the eye and say the name of the technique after I say it. I clicked her for looking at my nose as I said the name of the technique and she repeated it back to me. Tag point: Eyes to nose The third time we did the stack I gave her the direction to stand up straight, look me in the eye and say the name of the technique after I say it. Tag point: Repeat The fourth time I gave her the direction make sure that she checks with the non working hand. Tag point: Check The fifth time I did not TAG.

Log July 16, 2010

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Date	Minutes Spent Tagging	Activity	Notes	TAG Points	Comments/ Lessons learned
07/16/10		Karate / On the Road	We reviewed the 25 techniques.		I did not tag. The Kidlet preformed all 25 techniques from a set of shuffled the cards every place that we stopped today –in the lot before tennis, in the lot after tennis, at the service dog school, in the waiting room at the music school be for her cello lesson, at the restaurant while waiting for lunch, at the playground, in the driveway before going into the house (five times).
07/16/10	5	Cello	The Kidlet is working on the proper way to bow her cello.	Tag Point: Over Bend Wrist Tag Point: Straight Elbow Tag Point: Arm Only I marked the tags 10 times each with a loud box clicker so that she could hear it over her playing.	The Kidlet got up early, on her own, to play her cello – before her cello lesson. She said that she had a song that she was almost done memorizing. I gave her a 5 token token jackpot for taking the initiative. She also asked that I tag her bowing (however she no longer needs it.)
07/16/10		Cello / lesson	The Kidlet is working on the proper way to hold her various body parts while she plays her cello.	Tag Point: Left Elbow UP	The Kidlet's cello teacher asked if I would help the Kidlet to remember to hold her left elbow out away from her body. Elbows should flap like the wings of a bird, she said. We will work on that this week.

Log July 15, 2010

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Date	Minutes Spent Tagging	Activity	Notes	TAG Points	Comments/ Lessons learned
07/15/10	5	Karate / Kicking Set	The Kidlet doesn't know Kicking Set which is the set for this session. She has had it before and earn a ribbon for it but doesn't remember it. She will be tested on it, along with her 25 self-defense techniques on 07/21/2010.	There are four steps to the kicks. The steps are to bring you knee up, extend your foot out, bring your foot back in and then put your foot down on the ground. Kicking tag points are: Tag Point: up Tag Point: out Tag Point: in Tag Point: down	First we reviewed all the kicks. They are front, side, roundhouse and back. Then, for each type, I tagged each part of the kick – up, out, back, down. The first five times she preformed it I tagged the up, the second group I tagged the out, then the back and lastly the down. Because she does not remember the order of the kicks for the set, I had her make a flash card for each side with the starting stance and the order of kicks. There are four for each side. We worked her memorizing each side, starting with side one. After she could say the name of the kicks in the correct order, I had her preform side one ten times.
07/15/10	5	Karate	We reviewed the 25 techniques.	Tag point: Check	We reviewed and did not add any new stuff. The only thing I tag was the Kidlet keeping her hands up. She preformed all 25 techniques then I shuffled the cards and she did then again. She did them for a total of 6 times.
07/15/10		Karate / On the Road	We reviewed the 25 techniques.		I did not tag. The Kidlet preformed all 25 techniques from a set of shuffled the cards every place that we stopped today – parking lot at the grocery store, in the lot before tennis, in the lot after tennis, at the service dog school, in the driveway before going into the house (three times).
07/15/10	5	Cello	The Kidlet is working on the proper way to bow her cello.	Tag Point: Over Bend Wrist Tag Point: Straight Elbow Tag Point: Arm Only I marked the tags 10 times each with a loud box clicker so that she could hear it over her playing.	When I came inside from walking the dog, the Kidlet had her cello out. I gave her a token for starting without being asked.
07/15/10	15	Tennis		We started with the toss. Tag point: Begin toss at shoulder Tag point: Extend fingers with toss. Tag point: Eyes and hand follows ball I chalked a box on the court for her to let her toss bounce into. After using her racket to gage the correct height, she did about ten or 12 tosses and just let the ball drop on the court in to the box. Tag point: Little Lean Tag point: Statute of Liberty. Tag point: Reach high Tag point: HIT Tag point: Point racket top to net Tag point: Out Tag point: Across Tag point: down	See July12 for instructions and details. I marked with a loud box clicker and the tennis coach came to watch us today.
07/15/10	10	Softball / lesson	The Kidlet had a lesson with her pitching coach who is amazed at how well Tayja is doing pitching. She wants to make the Kidlet her "poster child." She is now also interested in learning more about that "tag stuff." The kid loves it and we try to get in 10 to 15 minutes most days. I attend every lesson and break the information down into tag points. The Kidlet's first lesson with the coach was the week she turned 8 years old. (Her birthday is March 13.) On June 5 - less than 3 months after her first lesson, she pitched live to batters in a five game tournament. That was her second time pitching to batters. The Wednesday before I talked her coach into letting her pitch batting practice. Before the mid season tournament all games where played using a pitching machine and the coach saw little value to using team practice time to develop pitchers. So when we got to the tournament, the Kidlet pitched in all five games. Because she was the only kid on the team who could get the ball over the plate, she was both the starting pitcher and the closer. She threw strikes in the rain (without ever practicing in the rain), hit one batter, did not WALK a batter and struck out 11 batters. She had three innings - not in the same game - where she stuck out 3 in a row. She was named most valuable player of the tournament for her age group. (She also had several hits and great fielding plays during the tournament.) After the tournament all the girls on the team wanted to learn to pitch and the coach started to make a little practice time for pitching.	Tag point: Statute of Liberty. Tag point: Release at hip. Since I was also the catcher, I did the tagging with a verbal "NICE"	We had not had a lesson since June 30 when the pitching coach did a clinic that I organized for The Kidlet's team. And since the priority for July had been Karate, we did not practice pitching much in the last week. The Kidlet was rusty and grumpy about it.