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PoschGames were created to promote the good development of children and to prepare them for elementary school (ES) and elementary art school (EAS). 

INTRODUCTION TO CHILDREN´S EDUCATION

Preschoolers and their preparation: parents should teach their preschoolers not only social skills but also drawing, modelling, building, language skills, numbers, letters and music. Parents often teach their children through purchased toys and also try to make them understand numbers - how many trees they can see, how many windows a house has, etc.; they usually continue with playful counting in commercial workbooks or games where children earn points for their correct answers. Parents teach their children letters through nursery rhymes and letter workbooks. By reading to their children, parents stimulate their interest in their own future reading and deepen their relationship to studies. Parents should also play some musical instrument for their children, sing to them and dance with them from their very young age because it will promote their good musical and psychological development. It is certainly not good to give children a tablet with songs and games. This form of learning can actually harm children because their other essential skills are developing at this sensitive age and tablets will stifle them.

Preschoolers, Schoolchildren and MATH:

As mentioned in the introduction, the preparation of preschoolers for the first grade includes knowing and understanding the numbers in their own world and is absolutely essential for their continued good development. Parents often teach their children to count how many trees they see, how many windows a house has, etc. They usually continue with playful counting in commercial workbooks or games where they earn points. [VH1] There are plenty of such games on the market, and children usually do not get to the next phase of learning until they start elementary school. When children show interest and curiosity, it means that their brain is forming links between neurons. Parents often disregard this curiosity by saying: "You'll learn that at school." However, if parents do not appropriately encourage their children's interest, there will never be a better opportunity to promote their development, in spite of the fact that they will learn the skill later on at school, albeit not with such enthusiasm, interest and progress. Parents should closely observe their children and their interest in counting throughout their young life. With few exceptions, this interest will always be there.

Mat-Play 20:

This game is designed for smart preschoolers and first and second graders. The game creates a nice relationship between children and parents, while conveniently strengthening their counting skills. The game should be played after children have gone through counting workbooks with pictures, recognize numbers easily, have basic addition and subtraction skills and can count on their fingers. The game involves adding and subtracting numbers up to 20, with no direction as to where to place the numbers. Children themselves try to place the numbers correctly and are overjoyed and motivated to continue playing once they got it right. The game is based on the Scrabble game and develops children's imagination and logical thinking. When placing the chips, children perform several times more numerical operations in one game than during several math lessons at elementary school. And all this is done with interest and playfulness. Children themselves set the pace and are motivated to count, using the game system. The game is designed in a way not to tire children. It has been tested in collaboration with Mgr. Žaneta Hejmalíčková, who teaches our son Jaroslav at First Elementary School in Říčany by Prague.

The game is designed for very smart preschoolers, first and second graders as a didactic tool and also as a supplemental tool for children in social facilities. There are many organizations, for example DownSyndrom.cz, where Mgr. Iveta Hronková, Ing. Gabriela Šalková and other professionals work with children with Down syndrome. Articles about MatPlay were published in the PLUS21 magazine.

Mat-Play 100:

The game is intended for third and fourth graders, older children and adults. It is played similarly to Mat-Play 20, but it includes multiplication and division and counting up to 100. In this game, children also learn multiplication tables and division.

The game is used in elementary schools as a didactic tool.

Children and Music:

"Music is man's most important education because it penetrates his soul most deeply and captures it the most." (Plato)

Music has been a part of human culture since time immemorial, most often in the form of singing and dancing. Nowadays, parents want their children to attend elementary art schools and to have a musical education. Unfortunately, they often forget that sharing music with their children is the most important aspect of their development, as children perceive new skills primarily as part of their own position in the family. It is not enough to place children in an elementary school and to leave them at the mercy of the school system. Parents should share the joy of music with their children, whether by singing, playing together or practicing a musical instrument so that children can see their parents' interest in music. Music will then become a natural part of the life of children who will truly enjoy it.

Musical Notes:

It is intended for preschoolers who, for example, take preparatory music education lessons (PMEL) and are to choose or already play a musical instrument. The game has two variants:

Musical Notes for Beginners (described):

The game is played similarly to Mau-Mau and UNO. [VH2] Children get acquainted with the notes by trying to get rid of all their cards and win, just like in Mau-Mau. Only they don't place, for example, Acorn 9 on Bell 9, instead they place a note on another note of the same name - e.g. d1 on the note D, etc. Instead of suits - Acorns, Leaves, Bells and Hearts - there are octaves. In addition, the notes are written in both the treble and bass clefs. Aces are replaced with rests of different lengths. The game contains a lot of action cards, such as repetitions, other types of rests and a wild card. The wild card is not the Ober, but a pre-selected card that children are currently learning and that becomes their motivation. The game is also fun for adults, and even those who don't know, or are just learning, notes can play it. Thanks to this game, young children in particular will become very familiar with the notation of individual notes.

Musical Notes for Advanced (undescribed):

The game is played in a similar way to the variant described above, except that the name of the notes is missing and the octaves are not distinguished by color. To play a musical instrument or to sing, it is important that children can read music easily and correctly. It is then much more fun for them to play an instrument because they already know which note to play and do not take long to figure out the note. The Musical Notes card game motivates children to become interested in music and musical education.

Both games are used as a didactic tool in elementary art schools in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. They are played by children and adults of all ages.