How do you teach your child sPelling?

[solittletimeandsomuchtodo]

First week back and first week at attempting to do this. Frustration by both parties!!!
Help me with hints -ideas- suggestions on how to do this as it's going to be a long year otherwise!
We get the words and have them for a week before being tested.
10 words.
Year 1-ds

We do a couple every night, let dd look at the words, write them out 3 times then do a spelling test ( then bang my head against the wall ) and repeat!
With tricky words we make up little rhymes, for example light, might, sight, dd remembers that they all end with I Go Home Tonight. I have to admit spellings do drive me mad.

Tips for practising at home:

In year 1 you can use magnetic letters to create the words. We used to put the appropriate letters on a tray on the other side of the room. DD would get the word and then it was a race against (plenty of) time to spell the word with the letters on the radiator. She loved this.

Schools often base spellings on phonics now - so they might be hair, fair, chair... We look for what all the words have in common and to begin with she writes the 'air' at the top of the page. Then she only has to remember h-air, f - air, ch-air. Easy!

Sometimes we make up a little rhyme or rhythm to remember it. So last year to remember 'once', DD just chanted "Oh - Nuh - curly C - E". The rhythm and rhyme approaches work better than focusing on the phonics approach for longer lasting retention.

A lot of this is just teaching her to pass a test rather than learning to spell the words, but hey, that's what the government have pretty much reduced our whole education system to nowadays.

We did Look, Cover, Spell and Check which seems to work really well. When dd got bored we'd use this

DD likes writing on a whiteboard. That way if she needs to change something it's easy. And it makes a change from pen and pencil, but is still using muscle memory. I think that's important - that you are also remembering the way to write the word, rather than typing.

She found saying the letters or sounds very confusing so we never do checks in the car for example, but this works for some.

Thanks for replies. We do have writing boys so might try that. And good point about the car, might skip that this week and just focus on the writing part.