About Mary Jo
and Natural Learning

About Mary Jo...
An award-winning, educational, motivational speaker for all preschool and primary teachers, child care providers, and educational organizations, Mary Jo Ayres will deliver exciting ideas, teaching techniques, natural learning songs, and humorous anecdotes for teachers. 

Mary Jo Ayres is a member of the Speakers Bureau for the Association for Childhood Education International. The ACEI is an international professional educational organization founded in 1892. 

The ACEI is considered to be the most active and widely respected association in the world serving the developmental needs of children from infancy through early adolescence in the classroom and beyond. 

Mary Jo has spoken to SECA (Southern Early Childhood Association) and International Reading Association conventions. 

Natural Learning was founded to provide natural ways to help children learn. Natural Learning involves play, songs, puppetry, and active, hands on learning. Today's teachers must facilitate the learning environment that is essential for young children. Mary Jo provides motivation and ideas for teachers, and she makes the products that teachers need available to provide Natural Learning experiences for developmental learning. 

"Because I have been there, I know I have a special interest for today's teacher. " - Mary Jo Ayres

About Natural Learning Songs...
These are Natural Learning Songs that emphasize letter sounds and letter sounds in words. These songs are fun, quick and easy to learn. Very young children love to sing these songs. Pre-schoolers and lower elementary students quickly learn phonemic awareness of letter sounds and letter recognition. 

These CD's are unique as they contain songs for all 26 letters plus some letters have two songs. *"More Natural Learning Songs From A-Z" contains 30 songs including long vowel sounds and *"32 Natural Learning Songs From A-Z" contains 32 songs including short vowel sounds. (both are companions to the Natural Learning Book or also as stand alone).  

In addition to phonemic awareness, some songs direct children to move in a certain way, count, move left and right, rhyme, and use their imagination. 

Mary Jo’s book, Natural Learning From A-Z and her Kindergarten Learning Book, Kindergarten Learning cassette & Kindergarten Learning CD, More Natural Learning Songs From A-Z are 1998 winners of Parents’ Choice Awards. Natural Learning songs cassette & CD and Natural Learning Fun Songs are 1999 winners of Parents' Choice Award.

Mary Jo’s latest cassette/CD *Natural Learning Fun Songs include phonemic awareness songs such as "Do Wah Diddy D" (to the tune of "Do Wah Diddy Diddy") and "The Sound Song". Good behavior is encouraged with "Gonna Make It A Happy Day", and "Don’t Be A Zorilla". Children learn and retain information naturally by singing "The Statue of Liberty", "Fire Safety", and they learn about vowels with the "Vowel Song" to the tune of YMCA.

These CD's are wonderful, educational tools that are fun and exciting and are an excellent Resource for teaching the English Language.

About the Natural Learning book...
Filled cover to cover with pages of phonemic activities, songs, games, fingerplays, poems, recipes, and ideas listed with each letter of the alphabet for the teacher to use, Natural Learning Books have been successfully used throughout the United States.   

One reading professor said that her students' lesson plans greatly improve when Mary Jo's book was used.  It is a great resource book which list ideas in alphabetical order and makes finding the information easy. Do you want to know "How to make Hula Hoops?" Guess what letter to look under? How to make a volcano, look under letter V.  ALSO, SEE THE BOOK'S COMPANION CD!