A new way to learn the weekly spelling

That sounds great.

We play a game. I give me twins the word and they volley back and forth letter by letter to spell the word. If you miss a letter, the other twin "wins" that word. At the end of the game, the one with the most "won" words gets a special treat....usually a popcycle, fruit snack etc.

Sometimes, the words get a little hard and those get some extra special treatment. If the kids get all the hard ones correct, we go out for ice cream or rent a movie for the weekend. That way, everyone wins...and someone is felt left out!

i before e, except after c, or when sounding as ay, as in neighbour or weigh...

This is a neat idea, Nadinest. I'll have to pass it along.

The only thing I've ever done was when my children were young, I wote the names of nearly everything in the house on cards and taped them to the item, such as window, door, oven, hat, etc.

That is a good idea. I have my son write all his words out 5 times each. We go through them before he does this to make sure he knows each word. Then he writes them and the I ask him to spell them without looking at what he wrote. Any words he gets wrong he has to write again until he does not get any wrong. He is usually pretty good at getting them all after writing them the first time.