little update since I've started the post
I think we're on some sort of progress now. I have started doing this game with her - every day (or so) I randomly ask her to spell a word. Sometimes a word we can see on a sign somewhere - she then "spell - reading" it letter by letter.  I don't bother her with it too much, just one to  three  words a day at different times or when I remember. She now occasionally initiates the game sight - spelling words she sees.  So I've set a goal now to learn one spell word by heart a day. I first show her the written word, then ask her to spell it looking at it, then I remove the card out of the view and ask to spell again. I hang a card with this day's word on the door or spell it on the fridge with magnets, then remove it next day and ask her to spell it by memory. We have just started doing that, but I am very hopeful now it will work, but it'll take a while when the two things will get connected.
Don't expect teacher to understand - not many teachers know much of sight-reading our children learnt, and those who do think it's wrong.  But with our sight-readers it just work in reverse to the other children - while in mainstream practice kids learn to make letters and sounds then combine them into words - our kids need to learn to break the words down into letters and sounds in order to write.
Don't give up @Spunkin - try my approach, it might work for your daughter, even if for a little while.

my daughter is a bright spark of 5,5 and I used a variety of methods to teach her reading, including LR and reading eggs and flash cards. As a result - she now (sight) reads at a level of 10 y.o. (and comprehends) and she will read correctly words that sh's never seen before. In school they take her for reading time to older classes when they have staff available. However - I must have missed her writing  practise in some way (I didn't think this would happen, I thought it would just "click") The words she reads and the words she writes are not connected in her brain for some reason. She would read the most difficult new word correctly, but she can't spell simplest 4-5 letter words when writing.  Has anyone encountered with that?
I always praise her for any type of writing she does - as even drawing wouldn't come easy to her, I think her drawings resemble a 3y.o child's drawings at the moment, but I do have to correct her occasionally (gently, obviously) which makes her upset anyways, because she's really trying.
In school they learn phonics now and she's keen on her digraphs and tri-graphs (to sound them out on their own, she knows all of them) and to support this - when she's writing in my presence I ask her to sound it out in phonics first then write down. It helps very little. I actually think it confuses her even more. If I am spelling a word for her out loud - she would write it correctly.
A friend of mine mentioned that she gets confused with phonics and they were never taught that in school, but instead were taught spelling rules. This makes sense to me, as English is my second language and this is how I learned (but I was a grown up at that point). But are these two separate things? and if yes - how would you teach a child spelling, what do you use?
 

I have on my Nokia an app called Mandala4Kids - they show you a picture, then it disappears in few seconds (depending on the level you're in you get less or more time looking at it) then the colours disappear and child have to remember where each colour was and colour it accordingly

I was showing Brillkids to my daughter till she was about 4, then it was not interesting for her anymore. I still trying to show her Spanish curriculum (and she have to be bribed into it, however - almost anything she sees she remembers, but I only show English and Chinese to my younger daughter (2 y.o)
With older one we have long moved on to Reading eggs and Mathseeds (http://readingeggs.com/). She absolutely loves it - every lesson is based on series of games - this might appeal to your daughter by the sound of it. It's a subscription service, but it costs very little - I think 49 pounds per year ( and if you subscribe to Newsletter they will send you money off offers. They do free trials as well

Having said that - she still watches a lot of slides I download from Brillkids library on all sorts of subjects - sport, geography, Space is her favorite at the moment. So - don't regret buying it - just download subjects of interest for your daughter, she'll love it

Thanks everyone who replied. I have bought a book "bringing up bilingual children" and there's a lot of good ideas in it. I am pushing with minority language, turning on internet radio during the day (hubby is not happy with energy consumption- TV or PC have to stay on all the time while it's playing) I've started to show cartoons in minority language as well to the older daughter, although I'm not happy with too much of the screen time - as with lessons and some educational games it all adds up. Younger daughter is trying to say something in minority language and failing all the time, as for 1-syllable English word there's 2-3 or 4 syllable ford in minority language,  but bless her - she's still trying!
We'll see how it goes this time

I think I have made a mistake with my first child. I haven't reinforced minority (second) language from the start (too much going on, no one else in our surroundings speaks the language, etc. and also - half-consciously I have made a decision based on some credible studies  that if the child is able to communicate early (-er) and easier with bigger vocabulary - it would be easier for them in school and to excel in academic studies. And I am the major carer for my child, so no one else could have given her this knowledge at this age. This part is definitely true - she is now 4, everyone comments on her command of English (community) language, very chatty and confident girl, makes up her own (very intricate stories) and her language skills are of a child 2-3 years her senior. And she started to read just before she turned 4. The problem is with her second (minority) language. While understanding most of it ( but not to the extent of her English - I have to dubb more difficult words and concepts) she is very reluctant to speak it. I have taken to reminding her to speak it every time she addresses me and sometimes she does, but I can see how difficult it is for her. No chance of reading in it so far - I was not very consistent with my flash cards 
So - we learn on our mistakes and fix it on our second children 
My other daughter is 14 months now and is starting to say a lot of words, unfortunately all of them English. And on one hand my heart bursts with joy when she is shouting out her words and being so proud of herself that she is saying them - on the other hand I am worried that it would be the same as with my 1st daughter. Shall I ignore her first English words and just repeat those words in minority language and if yes -  would it not hinder any language and confidence development? Most of the first words are much easier and shorter for a baby to say in English rather then in my language - would she not just give up on both until  much later (I heard some kids start talking only at 3!)
Any first-hand experiences greatly appreciated

HI
Does anyone knows any good maths and music apps & games for Windows 8 tablet? Somehow we have 3 devices at home - 2 tablets and a smartphone and all of them running Win8. Whenever I hear about a good app I get excited, but - I can never find it for Win8 OS 
thanks

Hi
I looked in downloads and could only find basic shapes category which I purchased. It shows the picture then says the name of a 3D shape - 5 slides, not really worth 100 points.
I was wondering has anyone got a good PDF download or knows a link to LR Category with all 2D and 3D shapes including facts about those shapes - you know, like - " this is equilateral triangle, in which all three sides are equal" or "A polyhedron is a solid with flat faces (from Greek poly- meaning "many" and -edron meaning "face"). Each face is a polygon (a flat shape with straight sides).
  - this sort of thing. If not - I'd have to make it myself, as I want to introduce geometrical shapes in more detail now , not just names :-)

@Sonya_post
thanks for your reply. I guess I just have to wait and see. I did read that article and some others I could find on this forum. Some people praise Life of Fred math books. I'll compare everything and choose what to do next.
For now - we had a leaflet through the door for trial of Reading Eggs program, they have Maths bit as well - we're doing this, and it gives me some ideas as well. Problem is - I am not very good at maths myself and everything about Maths is terrifying to me, but I keep soldiering on for my kids sake :-) (I don't want them to be like me, because Maths are really important in life, and it kind of cripples me in that area).  I am not showing to her my relations with maths and make it sound exciting every time we do something - but maybe she's picking up on this - I don't know...
Anyways - all the posts and advice would be very much appreciated.

Kristina and Mandabplus3 - how many languages do you show in LR per day, do you do each one twice a day and if not - how do you do it? Sometimes my baby (8m) gets disinterested half way through the lesson, and if few attempts hasn't brought her back I stop the lesson, but then I drop this half-daily lesson and next time (same day) I show it to her I start with the second half of the daily lesson. My older one 3,8 y.o only manages only 1 half-lesson a day for each of 2 languages that I show (English and Spanish - we do Russian with cards and books only), and I drop other half a lesson completely and next day I continue with the next lesson. She is so much into pretend play at the moment that I am happy to leave her play and let her develop imagination. She gets stroppy if I interrupt her play for lessons and I want them to be enjoyable and not a chore. She only plays in English though, and even when I bring Spanish or Russian Playdate for her - they keep speaking English and I have to keep reminding them to switch the language (almost every 15 minutes)
What are your experiences please?

I have a very similar problem, off to read Korrale's blog and will be checking this thread as well!

THat's very interesting. I wonder - at what age could that be discovered? I have a concern that my 3,5 y.o daughter cannot learn math. I have started her on Doman Math (dots) from 18 months, she never was interested. I used all the tricks in the books to show them, showed them in presentations - to no avail. Right now - when asked how many of something she sees - she insists on counting things first with her finger - even if there's only 3, 4 or 5 or 6 of something, not even when they are in a pattern. She can only subitize up to 2. Everything else she insists on pointing and counting - sometimes wrongly. Completely refuses to count on (starting from number other than one) - every time we do sums she insists on counting everything. I am wondering weather this is something that they are referring in this article or I am doing something wrong - because I cannot move on from sums and subtractions like that.
Has anyone had similar problem?

THanks a lot for these links Kristina. Are you teaching your kids languages you don't speak and understand yourself? If yes - how do you go about when they actually start speaking those languages? Asking because when I teach languages I know - Spanish, Russian and English (of course :-) I correct her when she says something wrong (grammar) and this helps her learn them, and sometimes she says the words themselves incorrectly to the point that they are unrecognizable and it takes a while to understand which word she is trying to say and to correct it. But how do you go about these hurdles when you don't know the language? How do you know she's learning and using them correctly?
Thanks

HI
I have a question - when you finish a language program (and even when you are still going) - how do you keep going with the languages? Especially the ones that you, yourself don't speak? Our local libraries don't stock many books in other languages, and even if they did - there's no way I can read Chinese and French, although I also watch all the lessons on LR together with my baby - I wouldn't be able to string two words together, I even pick the slides wrong all the time in Chinese in the Games part, and my pronunciation is so wrong (no matter how I try) in both Chinese and French that I don't even want to try in fear that my baby learns  wrong.
Can anyone share their tricks please

Hi everyone
My 3,5 y.o has started to speak in her own made-up language - first it's started when she was playing by herself,  but now it's creeping up into all of her conversations on the daily basis. Now, I remember myself as a child doing similar thing - singing songs in made-up language or talking to myself. I can't remember me trying to pretend it's a real language in everyday life and talk to people in it, and I think I was much older that 3,5. I think my excuse was that I wanted to speak some other language, but it was not available to me (I grew up monolingual). But she speaks very advanced (for her age) English and learning 2 other languages, so I don't think it's the same issue here. It's a bit irritating, as she insist on speaking it and also keeps making up all sorts of geographical locations with silly names despite us doing quite a bit of geography with her as well - so she has all this real words from other languages and real geography to practice but she reverts to gibber-gabber, almost a baby language.
Has anyone had the same experience and how to deal with it?