R Blends Printable Game

 In 2025, I created some free, printable Blends Games (L Blends and S Blends) for you to use with your students. Today I am adding a free, fun R Blends Game to my website which you can now also download and print for your students to play.

Free Printable Phonics Game

The R Blends included are br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, and tr. Some of the words used are bread, cry, drop, frog, grow, print, and try. The game has 27 words with R Blends.

The game is lots of fun for students in kindergarten or first grade and will fit in well with your curriculum in the primary grades. Plus the game is no-prep! Just print and go!

Please CLICK on the link below to get your free copy of the R Blends Printable Game at my website.

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R Blends Printable Game

I usually laminate my printable games to make them last but if you prefer you can use a plastic sleeve to keep the games protected. (I usually buy my plastic sleeves at one of the Dollar Stores. They often come in different colors.)

Your students will need dice or a spinner to play the game. You can also print out free (quiet) paper dice at my website (same link as above) when you print out the game. I like to print on oaktag which now comes in lots of bright colors.

printable paper dice

printable dice

Here are links to read about the R Blends and S Blends Games which are also available for free at my website.

L Blends Game

S Blends Game

Happy New Year!

Have fun teaching with phonics and reading skill games! :)   

Making Printable Dice to use with Kids' Games

 Happy New Year!

Do your students play lots of printable games or board games? Do you need some extra sets of (quiet) dice to use with the games.

I have some free dice printables that you can download on your computer to make lots of sets of dice using heavy paper such as cardstock.  Plus cardstock comes in lots of vibrant colors!

paper dice for use with educational games

I have 2 versions that you can use. You can print the version with numbers or the version with dots. You just need the printable, a scissors, and some glue to make the dice for your students.

dice made with cardstock

LOVE THE VIBRANT COLORS OF THE DICE

DICE

The dice are great to use when playing games in school or at home!

The free dice printables are posted at my website (https://www.LearningWorkroom.com). 

Dice Printables

Download and print them anytime at your convenience. 

Also if you want some printable phonics and reading games to use with your young students, you have come to the right place. 

Click on the links below to see some of the fun printable games for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade students.

https://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2025/11/4-printable-digraph-games-for.html

https://learningideasgradesk-8.blogspot.com/2025/08/back-to-school-9-free-printable-reading.html

Sample Game

The games are no-prep, interactive, and easy to use. 

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

Have Fun with Educational Games in the New Year!

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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. 

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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.

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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!