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 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)"

Softball

Log July 6, 2010

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Date	Minutes Spent Tagging	Activity	Notes	TAG Points	Comments/ Lessons learned
07/06/10	10	Fastpitch Softball	The Kidlet is learning to the windmill for fastpitch softball.	Tag point: Statue of Liberty Tag Point: Still shoulders Tag point: Statue of Liberty I used a clicker to mark the tags.	First we watched the first two drills on a Dvd called The Basics & fundamentals for the Windmill Pitcher. The first drill explained the correct way to hold a softball. The second covered bringing the ball over your head with a straight arm while having your head straight up and down and your biceps close to your ear. The drill calls for zero movement of the torso. I did not tag the proper way to hold a ball as it is something that the Kidlet has already mastered. I did tag the second drill. I had to break the drill down in to smaller pieces. First I had her just slowly lift her arm straight up so that her hand was over her head with the ball in it. No tags needed. She did that about ten times. Then I asked for no bend in the elbow but that the elbow not be hyperextended. I showed her what I meant and then had her tag me about 10 times with a straight elbow. Then I added head straight up and down. When we put it all together Tayja named it Statue of Liberty. I clicked for the Statue of Liberty about ten times. Next we worked on the windmill arm movement. The Kidlet was using her upper body to fling her arm into motion. I clicked for still shoulders for about ten times until she got it. I explained that it she arched her back slightly ti would help keep the shoulders still. I showed her what I meant and then had her tag me about 10 times for keeping my shoulders still while I did the windmill motion. Next we added a pause in the Statue of Liberty position. I clicked at the peak if her elbow was correct. The entire session was about 50 minutes.
07/06/10	1	Citizenship	We use tags (without stating the tag points) for the Kidlet's daily living.	Tag Point: Throw away trash. I marked with the word. "NICE!" And sent her to get a token. I need to carry tokens in my pockets.	The Kidlet is a hoarder. Today I thanked her and gave her a token (poker chip) for throwing away bits of paper when she was picking up her stuff from the living room coffee table. This is major because she tries to save scraps of paper and candy wrappers in case she wants to “make” something out of it later.