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

https://www.LearningWorkroom.com

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!