Log July 14, 2010

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Date	Minutes Spent Tagging	Activity	Notes	TAG Points	Comments/ Lessons learned
07/14/10	10	Karate	We reviewed the 25 techniques.	Tag point: Check	We reviewed and did not add any new stuff. We worked for about an hour. The only thing I tag was the Kidlet keeping her hands up.
07/14/10	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.	I requested that she take out her cello today. I rewarded her with a board game for when she was done. She was pleased to pick the game.
07/14/10	5	Tennis	We worked on the serve from a different directions.	Tag point: Reach high to release	See July 12 for more instructions and details. The swing of the serve is not exactly like the throwing motion , but has many things in common with throwing a softball. I had the Kidlet stand at the base line and near the center mark and throw balls diagonally into the opposite service court. I had her stand with the non-throwing shoulder/hip toward net, step son-throwing foot toward net and reach up high to release. My only tag point was to reach high to release because that is not how she was taught to throw a softball. My instructions did not make sense to the Kidlet so I had her tag me. She likes to tag me. I don't know if we will do this drill again because she was a little confused about why one would release the ball so high.
07/14/10	3	Cooking	The Kidlet is learning kitchen safety while cooking.	Tag Point: Handle to Rear Tag Point: Hold handle while stirring Tag Point: Ask for help I used a box clicker and marked each tag point.	She made a box of mac and cheese for the first time today.
07/14/10		Basketball	The Kidlet's favorite sport is basketball. Each summer she attends a basketball camp and she plays on a team in the winter (which I coach – we will be tagging this year!).	Possible tag points. Each part might need to be shaped. Tag point: balance Tag point: elbow Tag point: line Tag point: index finger Tag point: extension Tag point: flick Tag point: hold Goose Neck	Shooting is one of the most important aspects of basketball. To give the Kidlet consistently correct technique as well as shooting confidence and belief in her shot, we've written this poem of tag points to lay the foundations for future development. B for balance - Players square their feet up to the basket. E for elbow - Players get their elbow in an L shape facing the basket. L for line - Line up their right foot, hand and eye. I for index finger - Index finger lined up pointing towards the basket. E is for extension - Players extend their arm to straight. F is for flick - Players extend their arm and flick their wrist when fully extended to release the ball. Then then hold the flick in a “goose neck.” In the coming weeks we will using Tagging to get the shooting poem in to muscle memory. She has already memorized to poem.
07/14/10		Karate / Kicking Set	Watching the Kidlet in class tonight I discovered that she 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	The Kidlet's kicks are pretty good. She gets lazy kicking and just lifts and drops her leg. We can go back to tagging each part of the kick – up, out, back, down – to make them sharper. The largest problem with Kicking Set is that she does not remember the order of the kicks. I will have her make a flash card for each side with the starting stance and the order of kicks. There are four for each side.
07/14/10	15	Karate Class	I tag in class using a thumbs up or a loud verbal NICE! Tag points are given mostly with hand signals.	During class tag points and markers are mostly non verbal. However I do use “CHECK!” for hands up.	The class is 90 minutes long. The Kidlet's is a talker. I use a hand signal of a zipper going across my lips to tag for a quiet mouth. Tag point: Zip it! The Kidlet drifts instead of watching the other kids preform their parts or instead of watching the coach give direction. I use a hand signal of pointing to my eyes and then to the instructor for looking at instructor. Tag point: Watch I say her name to get her to look at me for tag points. Tag point: NAME When she looks at me on her own to see what the tag point might me I give her one or I give her a thumbs up. When I catch her doing the correct thing I say NICE! loudly. She knows my voice and will grin without looking at me. The Kidlet brought her technique cards with her because she wanted to practice in the classroom where the test will be next week. She preformed all 25 well after class, standing in the middle of the room while everyone else was leaving. It was chaos and she could do it in that sea of distraction. The test will be EASY, I think, after that.

Log July 9, 2010

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Date	Minutes Spent Tagging	Activity	Notes	TAG Points	Comments/ Lessons learned
07/09/10	3	Basketball	The Kidlet's basketball coach challenged her to eat one meal a day with her non dominate hand.	Tag Point: Spoon to Mouth I marked with a I-click clicker. I marked the spoon to mouth about 10 times. I missed several and was reminded.	She was eating cereal.
07/09/10		Project Assessment	The Kidlet is learning to eat without slurping.	The Kidlet started making a list and came up with: Cut food into small pieces Close lips while chewing Swallow then speak Dump spoon in mouth (instead of sucking the food off the spoon or fork.)	The Kidlet and I talked about what tag points can we use instead of eating with a quiet mouth. We looked at the little things that makes quiet eating happen.
07/09/10	15	Karate	We reviewed the 13 techniques and added 3 more.	Tag point: Check	We added 3 new techniques today. We reviewed and worked on the new stuff for about an hour. The only thing I tagged in any was keeping her non blocking or hitting hand up in a check. The Kidlet also made a "flash card" for each technique. She put the technique number to correspond to the DVD and the technique name on one side. She put what the technique is a defense against on the other. She can study the cards and learn the defenses. She can also sort the cards in to piles of similar movements, similar attacks or what ever to compare and contrast them. She can also shuffle the cards and then preform the techniques.
07/09/10		Tennis	The Kidlet is learning to play tennis and has a 45 minute group lesson 4 times a week for six weeks. This is the end of week # 4.		I watched the Kidlet's instructor try to teach a group of 9, 8 year old beginning tennis players how to serve. She simply showed them how she does it and asked that the kids to copy her. She gave them each three tries and then moved on. This teaching method worked for 3 of the 8 children. It did not work for the Kidlet . She was seriously frustrated. I need to break the serve into small bites and tag her on each part.
07/09/10		Project Assessment	I sat in on the Kidlet's Cello lesson.		At her Cello lesson yesterday, The Kidlet's teacher showed her how to over bend her wrist on the up stroke and straighten her elbow to cause a relaxed should on the up stroke. When the bow gets near the tip, the elbow should straighten. She asked that The Kidlet practice each for 5 minutes everyday for this week using a long bow action on the G string while keeping her body still. Only the arm should move. The Kidlet needs to be tagged on hold the cello upright. The C peg should be just behind her ear. Feet should be flat on the floor. Seat / Feet is the cue that the teacher used. The torso should be slightly leaned forward toward Cello. Hug the cello is the cue that the teacher used.

Basketball

Log July 7, 2010

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Date	Minutes Spent Tagging	Activity	Notes	TAG Points	Comments/ Lessons learned
07/07/10	0.5	Citizenship	We use tags (without stating the tag points) for the Kidlet's daily living.	Tag Point: Ready to Go! Today I did not give a tag point. I marked with the word. "NICE!" And sent her to get a token. I need to carry tokens in my pockets.	The Kidlet is required to brush her teeth, fill the bathroom water bowls, shower, and get dressed down to her shoes as soon as she gets out of bed in the morning. This morning she got up and did the routine without being reminded. This morning chain has been built slow over 4 years with a lot of positive reinforcement. Every once in a while, I reward random parts of the chain.
07/07/10	10	Karate	The Kidlet was surprised at how quickly she could remember old self-defense techniques.	Intellectual Departure is a tricky technique as it has a right back kick followed by a right shuffle side kick. Remembering witch kick came first was frustrating for her. My instructions were to point the hiney then the hip at the target. My refrain became Hiney, Hip, Hiney, Hip. The Kidlet asked that it be the tag point. (The word Hiney makes her giggle.) I used a clicker to mark if she pointed her butt at the target as the second move of the technique. Tag point: Hiney, Hip Alternating Maces has three stance changes and three arm movements. Each hand movement is attached to a shift instance. Tag point: Shift	We worked on 12 different techniques today. Two were new. Each day we will add one or two. First I had the Kidlet write the techniques in her notebook and write what it is self defense against. Then we watched a video clip of an expert preform the new techniques while talking through the steps. Then the Kidlet read out loud how to preform the technique. Then I read out loud to the Kidlet how to preform the techniques while she slowly went though the steps. Lastly she preformed it a couple of times with me or her saying the steps before adding any tag points. I did not use any tag points for the ones that she worked on yesterday. For the one of new ones I only tagged the completion of the technique. She was to preform each one 10 times in a row. I did not care is the did them well. I just wanted her to do the basic movements. The second technique has a back kick followed by a side kick with the same leg. That one I tagged the order about five times. We worked for about 40 minutes.
07/07/10	10	Softball	The Kidlet was very frustrated with my first tag point. She did not want to take a break even though I could not figure out what she needed to do differently to get the ball to the target. I had to take away the ball to get her to stop and regroup. I will have her do the entire motion in the mirror before bed tonight.	Tag Point: Hit Target Tag Point: Release at Hip	The Kidlet pitched into a hanging dog agility tire using the full windmill motion. I started with the tag point hit target but it was not enough information. I needed to tell her where to release the ball to have enough control to hit the target. I changed the tag point to release ball at hip.
07/07/10	3	Dog training/ Loose Leash Walking	The Kidlet is preparing to run a friends English Cocker in agility in about 12 weeks.	Tag point: Hands to belly button Tag point: Right neutral I used "Yes!" to mark each tag point.	Using a human as the dog, the Kidlet worked to keep Ringo from pulling her without pulling back, and on stopping her feet in a staggered position to prevent the dog from pulling her over. The information I gave the Kidlet for not pulling back was to bring both hands holding the lead to her belly button and stop her feet. When we added the dog to the picture, she did a better job not being pulled around.
07/07/10	3	Citizenship	The Kidlet is learning to eat without slurping.	Tag Point: Quiet Mouth I marked with the word "Click!" I marked the lack of a sucking noise about ten times. I missed several and was reminded.	The Kidlet asked that I click her for sucking in her noodles without slurping. Then she harassed me for missing when her mouth was quiet. I would have preferred working on eating spaghetti without sucking the noodles in to her mouth. The Kidlet picked the tag point quiet mouth. Theresa asked that I consider these points for the next eating lesson: "What would the tag points be instead of "don't suck noodles into your mouth"? Also can you or the kid come up with distinct "do" tag points for quiet mouth. What are you doing to keep quiet and still masticate and swallow food. Maybe the kid can write a little book on the tag points she creates…"The Grown up Girls Book of TAG Points for Making Parents Happy" we could publish it as a downloadable book!"
07/07/10	3	Basketball	The Kidlet's basketball coach challenged her to eat one meal a day with her non dominate hand.	Tag Point: Fork to Mouth I marked with the word "Click!" I marked the fork to mouth about 10 times. I missed several and was reminded.	The Kidlet requested that I continue to click her at dinner when I told her we were done with the Quiet Mouth tag. So I suggested that she switch her fork to her left hand and try to maintain the quiet mouth, head over bowl and elbow off table that is required for polite eating. But I would only be marking the moment that the fork held in the left hand reached her mouth.
07/07/10	0.5	Cello	The Kidlet hates to start practicing her cello because she might miss something.	Tag Point: Cello Time	Once the Kidlet gets started playing her cello, she doesn't want to stop. She sometimes play for 2 hours. She does not, however, often pick up the cello without being reminded. The goal is for her to play for at least 30 minutes every day. We want her to play when she has "down time." There isn't a scheduled time. Tag Point: Cello Time We marked when she gets out the cello with a verbal and give her a token. If she is "caught" playing the cello with out being asked she gets a jackpot. Theresa's comments: "An additional thought is to make the TAG point something that surrounds the behavior but is not the end result. If you want her to play the cello maybe the directions are generally "before you play with the cello, the tag point is…ring bell twice". Again the tag point is slightly away from anything that may be poisoned but still is fun and may encourage or remind the student to do something without "caving" in to something someone else wanted them to do. (not the case with the kid as she seems to want to practice)
07/07/10		Self-Assessment			It takes me longer to “log” the sessions than it does to complete the sessions. I don't know if I am to be counting the prep time and the non tag work in my time log or just the actual time spent with a tagger in my hand. I emailed Theresa and have added her suggesting and comments to my log. Theresa suggested: "You can reduce low interest session recordings. Just tally minutes and write NN (Nothing New Or Outstanding to record)"