The purposes of this study were to investigate the intluence of a program of infantile recreational games on the learning ofbasic concepts by preschool children and to verify its generalization in the classroom. Forty pupils with age varying from three to five years were subject of this study. The delineation used was pre-test, training, post-test and generalization test. In the pre and post-tests, it was used the Test of Basic Concepts of Boehm. In the pre-test the pupils had a greater command of the concepts related to the areas of space, followed by those oftime, mixture and quantity. After the training, the best performance occurred with the concepts related to the areas of space, followed by those of quantity, time and mixture. The statistic analysis pointed out to the efficiency of the application of the infantile games program in order to acquire command and generalization ofthe drilled concepts. The data were examined under a referencial cognitivist learning basis.
Concepts Formation; Games; Preschool; Psychomotor