"I really admire Galina's passion for what she is doing. I think this is the key to her success. It is incredible how effective her concept of teaching music to small children is. I am coming from a musical family myself and cannot stress enough the importance of musical education especially in early stages of child's development. My son started at Bonkers Child Care Centre in Aspendale 2 years ago and I am constantly surprised how much information he absorbs through the songs and musical activities they have at Bonkers daily. The knowledge of various musical instruments ( I did not even know about), learning the alphabet, count, yoga, body parts....etc. Recently he came home singing a melody from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" (children listen to some light classical music at Bonkers during the day). This is truly amazing. Unfortunately my son is leaving Bonkers shortly to start school and I feel that we will not be able to find anything even closer to replace this wonderful program that Galina created at Bonkers. Hopefully Victorian Department of Education considers this practice and incorporates it in our Primary schools as well as Child Care and Kindergarten Centres. (Anastasia Oskolkova, January 2011)
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