Brand New Gig!

Hello internets,
Things have been fantastic out here.
I am working again in my chosen profession for the first time in over a year!!
This is fantastic.
I was hired, at first, by a single mom in town. She is a lovely woman and I can't wait to get to work with her and her daughter. She feels that she is well equipped to teach her daughter (who is naturally bookish) reading and writing skills, but felt overwhelmed when it came to math and science. The daughter is not naturally inclined to learn either of these subjects, and the mother has been having problems trying anything and everything to spark interest. Luckily, my masters degree focus was math and science instruction. I feel well prepared to handle this challenge.
Add to it the fact that this girl is home schooled. Public school was not meeting her needs in an appopriate fashion, because she is quiet, bookish, and didn't cause any trouble for the teacher. Based on this, she was often ignored and learned less than she should have in the subjects she didn't care about. This is a problem I shall quickly work to remedy. She may be behind, based on grade level expectations, but she has an agile mind and with the right presentation, I fully believe she will catch up with lightening speed.
To help encourage learning of things she would rather ignore, I decided to use her passion for art as the basis of my instruction. To aid in this, I am creating a curriculum for use with her based on the great artists of history. We are starting with Vincent Van Gogh.
By focusing the lessons on art, I hope to capture her attention. However, these are not merely instructions on painting or drawing. Art appreciation will be developed by reading and critiquing various artworks. Physics will be taught while learning about color, pigments, prisms, and mirrors. Mathematics will be taught by learning to estimate, and then segue into multiplication and the use of problem solving strategies to attack various word problems.
Biographies and critiques will be read at appropriate levels and writing will occur daily. I hope to use a writer's workshop technique in addition to requiring daily exit tickets or notes about what the day's lessons entailed and what the student has learned.
I look forward to planning and executing this new idea. I realize that it will be a tremendous amount of work for me, but after so much time out of the game, I welcome it.
Plus, I'm getting paid in massages and healing sessions!! How can life possibly get cooler than that?!