This research is inserted in the line of Language, Knowledge and Teacher Training of the Postgraduate Program in Education of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora / UFJF - Minas Gerais and aimed to investigate how playing is conceived and experienced by teachers in a 1st year of elementary school class to a public school in Juiz de Fora city. By specific objectives, this work just observed how playing is considered in the 1st year of elementary school; analyzes the points used by teachers in relation to the work done in playing in the 1st year and identify whether there was any change, and what were these changes made between the research participants in the critical reflection process carried out. For this purpose, we conducted a qual...