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.

Log July 8, 2010

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Date	Minutes Spent Tagging	Activity	Notes	TAG Points	Comments/ Lessons learned
07/08/10	3	Karate	We reviewed the new technique that Tayja leaned in class last night. The kid was tired and grumpy. We did not work very long.	Captured Twigs goes from a horse stance to a twisting close cat stance. Tag point: Twirling Cat	We worked on 3 different techniques today. One was new. Each day we will add one or two. I like start Karate with the newest while the Kidlet is fresh. First I had the Kidlet write the techniques in her notebook and write what it is self defense against. We skipped watching a video clip of an expert preform the new technique because the teacher went over it in class last night. 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. For the one of new, I tagged the cat stance in the middle of the technique. We worked for about 15 minutes and quit before we did all of the review techniques because The Kidlet was seriously grumpy. She did not get enough sleep last night. She was NOT happy that we stopped early so I gave her a choice, do one more technique (there was no way either of us would have survived doing all the were left to review), read a book or play in her room for 10 minutes. She picked playing.
07/08/10		Project Assessment	The Kidlet is tired and grumpy today. She was rude, distracted and mean at her tennis class this morning.	I have filled my pockets with small prizes and tokens. I will mark the good stuff with a smile, an acknowledgment and maybe a prize or a token	The only “tagging” that I will be doing the rest of the day will be to mark the behaviors I'd like to see – politeness, smiles, consideration, self-starting, etc.
07/08/10	12	Citizenship	I was working to end the day on a good note.	I marked about 35 occurrences of good behavior, smiling, politeness, removing her plate from the table, etc that happen during a six hour period.	The Kidlet told me that her very bad day got much better as it went on. She said that she was feeling tired and grumpy in the morning but ended up having a great day. From my point of view, the more she was tagged, the less grumpy she became.