I'm a young mom

The most important things for her are to learn to read and to learn basic math (counting, addition, maybe subtraction).

Read her stories. She will probably love that. Pick her favorites. Then you read parts and get her to read parts with your help.

I bet she loves to follow you around the house as you clean up. When she is there, use that time! Ask her how many bags of groceries there are. When you are putting away the milk, ask her how many bottles of milk there are and where on the carton it says the word "milk". When you're on your walk to the park, play a game where you both have to guess what words on signs are or how many cars are parked on the street.

The basic idea here is, don't force her to sit and listen all the time. She won't. Use the things she already likes doing and turn those into lessons. Make her participate by asking her questions. When she asks you a question, try to turn it back on her ("how many do you think there are...").

Also try asking at the library about reading hour for children and stuff like that. I admire you for doing this and for caring enough to ask advice!

Ask friends and family for advice, maybe there is someone who can help with this situation. Sometimes children do not want to learn from their parents, simply because it's their parents. This is why they show lack of interest.

watch some barney :)

I think the most important thing you can do for her is read to her every day if possible, and help her with reading. This will help her so much in the future in reading and writing.

Make everything fun. Little un's do have a short concentration span anyway. Buy some educational CD's and have a singalong in the car on the way to somewhere (it'll probably drive you mad but she'll love it). Go for a walk in the woods and use things like leaves and colours..ie if you pick say a maple leaf its red and has three points on ask her what colour it is and how many points on it, you get the idea.

Say you are making drinks for yourself, your other half and kiddywinkle...Ask your daughter how many cups are there on the table? Plus if she gives one cup to daddy and one cup to mummy, how many drinks are left?

Little things like that..just use pretty much everything around you and make it fun and light and she won't even notice you're teaching her. Plus you'll enjoy it too which will help bring her on in leaps and bounds.

Best of luck!

Incorporate learning into everyday tasks like what color are leaves that are falling or the cars going by. Also counting things like m&ms she is eating or grapes you have to make a game of things for them to be interested. You can do flashcards but don't expect her to pay attention for more than a few minutes. Also work with coloring that way she can learn to hold the crayon properly like you would a pencil and learning to color in the lines helps them later with letter writing. Talking to a friend that is a kindergarten teacher she said it is great if kids can tell her there whole name, colors, shapes, and if they can write there name that is very good. Then it is helpful if they can recognize letters and number but not a must. So don't stress and just work with her a little each day. Repetition is the key keep going over the same things over and over.

Kids learn through play and repetition. Play games like Alphabet Memory, Chutes and Ladders (which will help her to learn how to count), Candyland (which helps with identifying colors), or I Spy (which my kids loved). Puzzles help with problem solving and sorting. Teach her songs as well. I used educational videos everyday (we watched the same ones ALL THE TIME!) and explained what we were learning everyday. EVERYDAY! (it's enough to drive any sane adult loony) Read to her every night, which will boost her interest in reading and just let her have fun with it all.
Don't stress too much though, unless your daughter enters school bright enough to skip grades, most kids catch up to one another by the first grade. They can't teach each child individually, so most kids learn at the pace of the slowest child.

Good luck!