3 Free, Fun, Printable Christmas Phonics Games

Today I have 3 easy to use printable Christmas phonics games for your students!

• Christmas CVC Word Game - Short Vowels
• Christmas Beginning Blends Game
• Christmas Beginning Alphabet Sounds Game

The CVC Game is for ALL the short vowels (a, e, i, o, and u). The game has 33 CVC words.

Christmas CVC Game

The Blends Game is for the L blends (bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, and sl), the R blends (cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, and tr) and the S blends (sm, sn, sp, and st).

Christmas Blends Game

The Beginning Alphabet Sounds Game is for all 26 letters of the alphabet and uses lower-case letters.

Christmas Beginning Sounds Game

The games are no-prep, interactive, and easy to use. All of the  games fit in well with a kindergarten or first grade curriculum.

Each game is one page and can be downloaded with your printer!  Just Print and Go!

The kids will need 1 or 2 dice or a spinner to play the game. The kids will take turns reading the letters or words.

All 3 free printable games are posted at my website (https://www.LearningWorkroom.com). 

Download and print them anytime at your convenience. 

https://www.LearningWorkroom.com

Have fun with Christmas Games!

If you would also like some free Christmas Worksheets for students in Grades Kindergarten - Grade 6, please click the link below.

https://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2021/12/9-free-christmas-math-literacy-coloring.html

Telling Time to the Half Hour Resources for Kids

 Telling Time to the Half Hour Resources for Kids

Learning to tell time is important for children for many reasons. It builds independence and responsibility and helps children manage their own routines. It also strengthens other math skills such as counting by 5s and understanding fractions.

After students have become successful in learning to tell time to the hour then it would be a good time to introduce telling time to the half hour.

As with learning to tell time to the hour, it would be best to start learning about time to the half hour with concrete objects.

I would suggest gathering up all the clocks and watches, etc. that you can find in your environment and have your students touch and examine these concrete items and review what they already know about clocks and telling time. 

Then review telling time to the hour before introducing time to the half hour.

Start with your concrete items to have students learn about time to the half hour.  I like using teacher-made or student-made paper plates clocks to work with. Also many inexpensive paper clocks are available at your dollar stores.

paper plate analog clock

    paper plate analog clock

store bought clock

After using the real clocks and paper products you can move on to other paper and pencil supplies.

I have 2 new time to the half hour worksheets that I just recently added to the free math worksheets on my website.

Telling Time Worksheets

Click the link below, then go to the Mathematics page  to get your free copies.

Learning Workroom

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Telling Time Worksheets

To read my earlier post on telling time to the hour, making paper plate clocks, and using other resources to learn about time and clocks, click the link below:

https://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2025/09/telling-time-to-hour-resources-for-kids.html

 digital time with candy

Have fun with time!

4 Printable Digraph Games for Kindergarten and First Grade

 I now have 2 more free printable DIGRAPH GAMES for you to use with your students. You can download the 2 new games from my website with the 2 previous games already posted.

The first new game is for Digraphs CH & SH and the second new game is for Digraphs TH and WH.

Digraphs CH, SH, TH, WH

The games are no-prep, interactive, and easy to use. Both games fit in well with a kindergarten or first grade curriculum.

The 2 previous games include 5 digraphs (ch, sh, th, wh, and ph).

You can read about those games on a previous blog post. Click below.

https://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2024/02/2-free-printable-beginning-digraph.html

DIGRAPH GAMES

All 4 of the digraph games are fun for students and will help reinforce phonics skills with your students. Word games are great tools for learning phonics and a fun addition to your literacy centers. All 4 of the games support students' phonemic awareness of consonant digraphs in a fun, engaging way! 

I usually laminate my game boards or put them in a plastic sleeve for students to use.

ROLL and READ DIGRAPH GAMES

All 4 free printable games are posted at my website (https://www.LearningWorkroom.com). 

Download and print them anytime at your convenience. 

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Have fun with phonics and reading!

L Blends Printable Phonics Game

Learning about blends is an important skill for students to master and will help students as they learn to sound out words. 

Students need strong reading foundation skills in Kindergarten and Grade 1. 

Today I have a new, free, printable, BLENDS GAME  for you to use with your students in kindergarten or first grade. The game is engaging for students and will fit in well with your curriculum. This game features the L Blends. It includes bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, and sl.

L Blends Printable Game

Consonant blends are two or three consonant letters that appear together in a syllable or word. Each letter in a blend retains its own sound which is blended together. 

Some of the words included in the L Blends game are blue, black, clap, cloud, flag, fly, glad, glue, play, plug, sled, and slime. 

The game which is only one page is no prep, so easy to use, and a great tool to use with your students. Just download to your printer. Save yourself lots of prep time!

The kids will need 1 or 2 dice or a spinner to play the game. The kids will take turns reading the words with L Blends.

I like to laminate my game boards or put them in a plastic sleeve for durability.

L Blends Printable Reading Game

This free printable game is posted at my website (https://www.LearningWorkroom.com). 

Just click HERE to go directly to my website to get your FREE copy! Go to the Free Worksheets Primary page.

Have fun with phonics and reading!

S Blends Printable Phonics Game

Learning about blends is an important phonics skill.

 

Consonant blends are two or three consonant letters that appear together in a syllable or word. Each letter in a blend retains its own sound which is blended together.  

Blends can be at the beginning or ending of a syllable or word. Examples of blends are sm as in smile and spr as in spring. 

This week I created a free, new, printable Blends Game for you to use with your students. This game includes the S Blends: sm, sn, sp, st, and sw.

S BLENDS PRINTABLE GAME

Learning about blends will help children's ability to read words.

Some of the words included are smile, snack, spoon, stay, sweet, snow, spin, stop, smog, and swing.

The game which is often used with kindergarten and first grade students is one page and can be downloaded with your printer! It is very easy to use! Just Print and Go! You can use dice or a spinner with the game.

The children can use the game to practice and review basic reading skills. 

I usually laminate my game boards or put them in a plastic sleeve for durability.

The Blends Game can be downloaded at my website anytime at your convenience. 

This free printable game is posted at my website. Click below:

(https://www.LearningWorkroom.com).

I hope your students enjoy the game and improve their reading skills.

Fun Consonant Digraph Games for Kindergarten & 1st Grade

Digraphs are 2 letters of the alphabet that together make one single sound. Examples of consonant digraphs are ch, sh, th, wh, and ph.

Learning digraph sounds will help children's ability to read words.

Learning each digraph separately is recommended. Then, lessons involving multiple digraphs can be introduced. 

Digraphs are usually taught in Kindergarten and Grade 1.

After students have learned about the digraphs ch and sh, they could try my free digital game available in my Boom Learning Store or my TPT Store.

BOOM DIGITAL GAME

BOOM STORE LINK:

https://wow.boomlearning.com/deck/digraphs-ch-and-sh-2YFgqrQsJqnac33mL

TPT STORE LINK:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Digraphs-Ch-and-Sh-Boom-Cards-Distance-Learning-Free-3345937

After students have learned about the digraphs, ch, sh, th, wh, and ph, they can use my 2 free printable consonant digraph games to review the sounds. The games are a free download at my website.

Click below:

https://www.LearningWorkroom.com

DIGRAPHS GAME

DIGRAPHS GAME

All 3 of these free games are no-prep for the teacher but lots of fun for your students. The kids can use the games to practice and review basic phonics and reading skills. The games can be used any time of the year!

Games are an easy and fun way for kids to review basic skills and maintain their previous learning!

Have fun teaching about digraphs!!!

Fraction Activities and Resources

 Learning about FRACTIONS is a very important topic to teach kids. 

Here are a few resources to help you get started or to review fractions.

On my website I have 5 Free Worksheets that you can use with your students. 4 of the worksheets are about identifying fractions and the fifth is about equivalent fractions.

Fraction Worksheets

ALL of these worksheets can be downloaded directly from my website.

Click below:
https://www.LearningWorkroom.com

Before you download and use the free worksheets from my website, you may want to do some fraction activities with manipulatives, books, food, video, or internet activities,

Here are some links to activities that you can do with your students.

Pizza Fractions with paper manipulatives:

https://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2012/05/diy-fraction-math-manipulatives.html

PIZZA FRACTIONS

Fractions with candy and a great book:

https://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2012/04/hersheys-milk-chocolate-fractions.html

Scholastic Study Jams Video- Fractions:

https://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2012/04/what-are-fractions-video-and-online.html

Boom Cards Free Interactive Activity - Fractions:

https://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2022/04/fun-fraction-activities-for-kids.html

Boom Cards - Fractions

Free Boom Cards - Fractions

More Fraction Manipulatives:

https://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2012/05/alligator-fun-in-math.html

Have fun with fractions!