My daughter got a little bit behind in school this year for several reasons so to try to catch up, she opted to go to a continuation school for the second part of her school year. She still has all of her major classes but instead of being in a traditional school room, she goes to school, gets her work in packets and does all of her work at home and takes it in and turns it into her teacher once a week. At this time, she takes a big test on every section she completes and discusses things with her teacher at that time.
Presently, on top of her Math and Literature class, she is also doing her art class. She reads her art book, answers questions on each part and also does an art project. For these few sections she is doing right now, she has several art projects to turn in. The first project is to create a huge color wheel with the primary, secondary and intermediate colors.
They gave her small containers of the primary and secondary colors and she had to make the rest of them herself. Well, needless to say, they didn't give her enough paint and after making a mess of her first color wheel and running out of colors, she had to make a second one.
All she had at this point was the 3 new bottles of primary colors that I had to go out and buy her and she had to make all the other colors by herself. She had yellow, blue and red and she had to make orange, purple, green, yellow-orange, red-orange, red-violet, blue-violet, blue-green and yellow green.
At first, she got very frustrated and discouraged but with a little bit of coaxing, she ended up really enjoying herself. We kind of made a game out of it by creating new names for the colors (Names she picked and trust me they were very funny. Some of them were not what most mothers would approve of but at that point I was, 'Whatever makes her happy and gets her through it.)
At the end of the lesson, well let's just say we were very colorful people as we had a paint fight
It really surprised me as much paint as we had on each other and our clothes, there was NO paint on the walls, furniture or carpeting. LOL
Luckily she was only working with Tempera paints
He next project she is going to do tonight is Stained Glass Windows with construction paper and tissue paper and she is actually looking forward to it.
So I encourage you to try to help make learning fun for your kids. You might just have a little bit of fun yourself
Just thought I would share my evening with you my friends
Be Well and Be Blessed 
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