Picture Progress

The approach the Riley and the Maestro are taking this week is to do a photo-chart. He has a sticker chart, but hasn't EVER been motivated by getting stickers off one paper and putting them on another paper. He did think the Teacher had some cool treble clef stickers, but I think that's more of an aesthetic appreciation than a motivational one. He does like to see pictures of himself, though. The plan is to take pictures of him doing the things that he has practiced at home and put them on a large card stock. Then, after he demonstrates them for the Teacher, he gets another picture in the "Demonstrated" column.

I really like this picture. This is him holding eye contact. I lose track of how long he has done this for, but much less than 10 seconds. This is a very hard thing for him. Even in coloring book form, you can see how serious he can be about things.

After school the other day, they stopped at the Teacher's house and he demonstrated his bows. I think that it was a short visit, and that was the main point. He did get to play with the little cello, though. I am starting to think that playing with the Teacher's little cello defines a successful visit for him.



Here is a side-view of the Maestro bowing. Note the hands at the sides, rather than straight out behind him. This is his understanding of a proper bow, rather than "the deepest of bows."

Then we have the Maestro taking his cello out, and putting it away. His finger strength seems to have really improved as his pulls the zipper.

Riley was hoping to bring the kids to campus today and show off some more things to the Teacher.

Some friends from work dropped by on Saturday and he got his cello out and showed them how to pizzicato properly. I tried to get him to do the "I Love my Cello" song, but of course, he wouldn't. He DID demonstrate which strings were which.

I have some more pictures of things that he still needs to pass off that I can show you.