Log July 23, 2010

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07/23/10

Cello / lesson

The Kidlet is working on the proper way to hold her body while playing her cello.

The Kidlet 's cello teacher asked if I would continue to help the Kidlet to remember to hold her left elbow out away from her body. The Kidlet will be gone for a week on vacation and then have a week of strings camp when she gets back. There will not be any chance to work on elbows up with a real cello so I will look at ways to do shadow cello playing and mirror work.

Log July 22, 2010

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07/22/10	20	Archery / Girl Scout Camp	I attended girl scout day camp with the Kidlet . She tried fishing and archery.	Tag point: Feet Tag point: Nock Arrow red feather up Tag point: Park Arrow Tag point: Girl Scout promise fingers Tag point: Hook it Tag point: Straight arm Tag point: Small draw Tag point: Eye High hand Tag point: Aim up Tag point: Pointer under chin Tag point: Head up Tag point: Lineup	The Kidlet and I went to a Girl Scout day camp today. One of the things that the Kidlet tried was archery. The young lady teaching archery showed the girls how to do it. The Kidlet was frustrated and asked me to remind her of the steps and tag her. There are seven basic steps for shooting including stance, nock, draw, anchor at full draw, holding and aiming, release, and follow through. I started with Archery stance. Stand straddling the shooting line with left hip facing the target. Feet shoulder width apart with equal weight on both feet. Keep legs straight. Tag point: Feet Because the same stance is needed for every shot, I dug some markers into the ground. (When we do it again, I'll put some tape on the ground.) While standing on the shooting line, take an arrow and put the nock on the string between the nocking points. The arrow should be placed so that two fletching are against the bow and one fletching point right out from the bow. The arrows the kids were using had one odd colored feather that was to be placed towards the body. Tag point: Nock Arrow red feather up Put the arrow on the rest. Tag point: Park Arrow Put three fingers to the string. The index finger above the arrow and the second and third finger should be under the arrow. The fingers are held like the Girl Scout promise fingers. Tag point: Girl Scout promise fingers Form a deep hook with the fingers, they should be bent in both first and second joint. Tag point: Hook it Place the string in the first joint. Don't pinch the nock with the fingers; this might cause the arrow to fall of from the rest. Place bow hand in the grip and let the knuckles form a line 45 degrees against the bow. Don't grip the bow with the hand; fingers should be open and relaxed. Keep bow hand wrist relaxed straight. Tag point: Straight arm Rotate the elbow joint so the inside of the arm becomes near vertical. Straighten bow arm and lift it. At the same time lift draw arm and pull the string from almost nothing to approximately 1/3 of the draw length. Tag point: Small draw Keep the draw hand in the same height as the bow hand, approximately in the level of the eye. Tag point: Eye High hand Aim a little above the target. Tag point: Aim up In one smooth motion, draw the string to the face and place the index finger under chin. Tag point: Pointer under chin Try to place the string against nose tip without bending neck or lending forward. Tag point: Head up The arrow and underarm forms a straight line against the target. Tag point: Lineup Repeat the anchor, exactly the same every shot. We worked on archery for 90 minutes rotating the girls on and off the line. By the end of the session, my kid was able to hit the target 20% of the time with both a recurve and a compound bow.
07/22/10	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.

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 19, 2010

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Date	Minutes Spent Tagging	Activity	Notes	TAG Points	Comments/ Lessons learned
07/19/10	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.
07/19/10	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.
07/19/10	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 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.

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 12, 2010

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Date	Minutes Spent Tagging	Activity	Notes	TAG Points	Comments/ Lessons learned
07/12/10	15	Tennis	The Kidlet is learning to play tennis. We will arrive at her lesson 15 minutes early everyday this week to work on her serve.	We worked through the stance, the toss and started the swing in 15 minutes of tagging. Tag points were: Tag point: Toes to Post Tag point: Racket on Back Tag point: Toss up and forward This tag point did not give enough information. I made it into three tags. 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 high, 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: Reach high The Kidlet suggested that we rename the reach high tag to statue of liberty, a tag we use for fast pitch soft ball.	I need to break the serve into small bites and tag the Kidlet on each part. Tennis is not my sport. I used Tennis Steps to Success, 3rd edition by Jim Brown to build my model for tagging a serve. The serve is the most important shot in Tennis. You cannot "win" a point if you did not serve. The objectives for the beginner learning the serve are to work on technique, strength and consistency. I picked the punch-serve to start because it looked like the serve that the instructor was trying to teach and it is the easiest to learn. The objectives for a good serve are: 1. to get the serve into play consistently while using proper technique 2. when consistent getting the ball in to play, the goal is to be able to hit the ball exactly where you want it to go 3. to hit harder 4. to hit with a variety of spins 5. to have a pre-serve routine My objective for the Kidlet is for her to get the ball in to play %75 percent of the time while using proper technique. Directions will follow.
07/12/10		Tennis/ continued			The directions are: Part 1. Stand behind service line at about a 45% angle to the net, facing one of the net post. She is right handed so she will position her left foot forward at the 45% angle. (She will move back to the baseline once she can hit from the service line) Repeat the step on the left and right side of the service line. Work a tag point here for the foot position. Part 2. To toss the ball, hold the ball at the base of the fingers of left hand. Extend arm, holding the ball in the direction you want to hit and lift the ball without bending very much at the elbow. As you lift, release the ball by opening the fingers. Toss the ball so it peaks higher than the tip of the racket. Toss the ball to the same spot consistently. Repeat the step on the left and right side of court. Work a couple of tag points here for tossing. Part 3. Bring the racket to a position behind your back and touch the middle of your back with the edge of your racket. Lift the racket head a few inches and make this the starting point. Repeat the step on the left and right side of court. Work a couple of tag points here for racket position and for throwing a ball across court with the racket hand. Part 4. Swing up at the ball. The serve motion goes up before it goes forward. Don't let the elbow lead the stroke; keep the elbow high until after the hit. Repeat the step on the left and right side of the service line. Work a couple of tag points here for the swing.
07/12/10		Tennis/ continued			Part 5. When you hit, reach as high as you can. Your arm and racket should be fully extended when contact is made. Repeat the step on the left and right side of court. Work a couple of tag points here for the reach. Part 6. With the hit, snap the wrist. Repeat the step on the left and right side of court. Work a couple of tag points here for the snap. Part 7. After contact, bring the racket forward toward the net as far as it will go. Repeat the step on the left and right side of court. Work a couple of tag points Part 8. Follow though across your body, ending on the opposite side from which the motion began. Repeat the step on the left and right side of court. Work a couple of tag points Part 9. Practice directing serves deep and to specific spots marked on the court. Repeat the step on the left and right side of court.
07/12/10		Tennis/ continued			Part 10. Move back to a position halfway between the service line and the baseline and build the serve again. Repeat the step on the left and right side of court. Part 11. Mover back to the baseline and build the serve again. Repeat the step on the left and right side of the service line. Part 12. Move back to the 2 feet behind baseline and build the serve again. Repeat the step on the left and right side of court. Part 13. Build a pre serve routine. Repeat the step on the left and right side of court.
07/12/10	10	Karate	We reviewed the 20 techniques and added 3 more that she knew well already.	Tag point: Check	We reviewed first and then worked on the new stuff. We worked for about an hour. The only thing I tag was keeping her hand up.
07/12/10	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 out her cello and asked that I tag her bow work. I immediately stopped what I was doing and got my clicker. I praised her for getting her cello out and asking for tags. She LOVES to hear I am proud of her. At dinner I told everyone at the table how proud I am that the Kidlet will get her cello out and start playing with out anyone asking that she do so.

Log July 10, 2010

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Date	Minutes Spent Tagging	Activity	Notes	TAG Points	Comments/ Lessons learned
07/10/10	10	Karate	We reviewed the 16 techniques and added 4 more that she knew well already.	Tag point: In	We reviewed first and then worked on the new stuff. We worked for about an hour. The only thing I tagged in any with a kick was to recoil her kick before placing it on the ground.
07/10/10	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.	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. She asked that the Kidlet practice each for 5 minutes everyday for this week using a long bow action on the G string.
07/10/10		Self-Assessment			I have been forgetting to pull a bead when I think about I filling in the daily log. Having it done is a reward in it self for me.

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)"