When children participate in the music program here at 5 Star Summer Day Camps they will learn to use their voice properly without formal vocal lessons.  They will learn this through a process known as the "song experience game".  Children will learn music through the natural process of "play".  The famous Hungarian music educator, Zoltan Kodaly, believed that the best way to teach children music was through the folk songs that they heard through their early childhood development.  Songs like: "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and "Are you sleeping?" are examples of these types of folk songs.  As found on the website OAKE.org – Organization of American Kodaly Educators, "Folk music has all the basic characteristics needed to teach the foundations of music and to develop a love of music; a love that will last a lifetime." 

The voice is the primary instrument that I will work on with your child as that it is the most natural instrument that each and every one of us possesses.  In my 20 years experience with educating young children I have come to believe that the best way to learn music is through the use of the voice.  When music is put inside of a child through song they are then ready to move on to any instrument they wish to play.