I’m teaching one class of 7-year-old (kindergarteners) once a week.  Right now, they’re still working on learning the alphabet.  I was at Home Plus (where else?) on day and saw a bucket of alphabet magnets.  The price wasn’t too outrageous (about what I’d expect in a US toy store) so I bought a set.  It worked out perfectly.  There were 4 sets of letters and 4 kids in the class.  As they learn new letters, I add them to a plastic bag.

At the beginning of each class, we sing the ABC song a few times as a warm up.  Then we do rock scissor paper (to avoid fighting over colors).  When that’s all done, each student has a bag of magnets.  They go up to the board and have to put them up in correct order.  They struggle with things like the b and the d and the q and the p, so we sing and look at our big ABC poster.

Here are a few pictures of them from the first time they did the activity.