Importance of games at an early school age

The work is focused on child's play, its evolution, characteristics, importance and its contribution to the development of the child during early school age, ie after the onset of the elementary school. The work is divided into two parts. Theoretical and practical. The theoretical part describes the concepts as a game, toys, importance of play, early school age, development and personality development of the child. It also describes the characteristic traits of children of early school age, especially in the play and leisure activities. The practical part of the thesis builds on the previous thearetical part, which evaluates the results of the pre-selected children monitoring during the gameplay. Using a qualitative empirical research, I will carry out a detailed analysis of the activities of chlidren's game. Monitoring will be recorded in questionnaires, answering predetermined questions