In the meantime, we haven't let the chaos deter us from our early leaning goals. At this point Arden is reading more and more individual words. Even more exciting she recognizes them in books or if she sees someone writing them. Here's a video of her reading some of her words with her dad.
Currently, she does Little Reader in English and French 1-2 times a day. She also does Little Musician. She watches "The Letter Factory" to work on letter recognition and sounds, although I suspect she knows them all. She likes to sit at our keyboard (which has letter stickers on it) and play the keys saying the letter on each one. To help with sight words she has been watching meet the sight words and doing some corresponding flash cards.
Her other recent fascination is with books. She will have me read the same 10 books to her about 3-5 times a day. Her tastes lean heavily towards Dr. Seuss and PD Eastman. She also enjoys "reading" by herself and talking about each page and what it says from memory.
