New! Touched by a Song
Songs touch us in many ways and using music as a tool for learning is indispensable for early childhood educators.

This joyous and highly interactive workshop uses songs to develop literacy, memory, and other important skills in young children. Revisit how songs affect our emotions and create lifelong positive memories. Besides learning numbers, letters, beginning sounds, shapes, colors, patterns, opposites and rhyming, activities will develop a variety of important early childhood social, educational and musical skills.

Share in the learning of action songs, quiet songs, finger plays, lullabies and singing games from many cultures.

This is an exciting, interactive workshop where the participants use their hands, feet and voices. You will go back to the classroom with songs, chants, fingerplays, singing games and a renewed interest in music and the tools and techniques to give you confidence in teaching it.

Open a young child’s mind to the possibility of connecting to others by being "Touched by a Song."

"Hi Miss Jackie!! I'd like to take this opportunity to let you know how much I love your new CD!!! We are doing a kindergarten sing this year and we all love "What's a Friend For". I've had several kindergarten parents tell me how proud the children were to come home spelling friend. It is a wonderful song and those of us at Arcadia Valley Elementary Kindergarten (students AND teachers) thank you. "

New! Learning Power of Laughter
This workshop will show you how to bring joy into your classroom while integrating humor and laughter into the learning process. Activities that use the power of laughter to encourage your children to be creative, learn sequencing skills, develop phonemic awareness, use their imaginations, develop listening skills, and work with rhymes and language. Spark a child’s imagination, creativity and love for learning with these important developmental tools.

View photos and descriptions of Miss Jackie's most recent workshop for "Learning Power of Laughter" plus a CD Release Party for her new CD "Touched by a Song".

"Hi Miss Jackie,
I met you last Sat. at The San Francisco Library. I just wanted to personally thank you again for inspiring me! After listening to you speak, and looking at your website, I am excited about contributing to early childhood education through music. I am particularly interested in creating a program for children on the Autism spectrum and
incorporating sensory Integration techniques to help teach motor skills. You are my hero!!! I Hope you had a safe journey home."

Nurturing Literacy Skills in Young Children
A workshop full songs, poems, chants, fingerplays and games that develop phonemic awareness, alliteration, alphabet fun, phonics, vocabulary development and fluency.

All activities are research based and help children fall in love with reading. Emphasis on infants to three years.

"Jackie, your presentation at our Headstart Conference was fantastic. I'm so excited about helping my little ones develop better language and pre-reading skills. Thank you, thank you, Thank you!"

New! Laughing and Singing Make Way for Good Reading
Singing songs, saying poems and rhymes, and doing fingerplays with children help them develop early literacy skills.

Long before children encounter formal reading instruction, they should have many opportunities to play with and fall in love with rhythm, rhyme, repetition and sequence. Songs, poems, rhymes, chants, and fingerplays are the perfect vehicles for these experiences.

Emerging research has shown that rhymes and songs are more than entertaining. It has indicated that the critical window of opportunity for helping children develop both vocabulary and sound discrimination is between birth and age six.

All it takes is to unleash the power of these experiences is to have fun with songs, poems, rhymes, and fingerplays. Emphasis on three to six years.

"It was such a pleasure to have you visit our program and provide training to our team. They are still talking about you and your songs live on as they are being sung in every classroom and home we serve. You were rated very highly by our team and they want you back again!"

Simple Games to Promote Early Brain Development for Infants,Toddlers and Twos
A young child's brain grows at a phenomenal rate in the early years of life opening a window of opportunity for learning that occurs only once in a lifetime.

This workshop teaches a fun-filled variety of ways to lay the groundwork for your child’s future. It is packed with everyday opportunities to contribute to brain development during the critical period from birth through age two. Each game is accompanied by information on related brain research and a description of how the activity promotes brain power in your child. These simple games strengthen brain connections needed for language, movement, bonding, and more.

These presentations have been given worldwide and most recently in Australia and Germany and Singapore.

"Wonderful presenter with lots of practical and sensible suggestions."

Infant and Toddler Development
Games that promote listening and language skills, coordination, problem-solving, imagination, confidence, dexterity and many others. All of the activities encourage bonding between adult and child and are wonderful fun to play.

"Jackie, you are inspirational, thought provoking, practical, and a marvelous teacher."

Games that Develop Skills in Young Children
A jam-packed session full of games, songs and learning-fun ideas perfectly suited for three to six year olds. All of Jackie's workshops are interactive and full of fun and laughter.

"Excellent content material - well presented. Loved her songs -- learned new games. It was fun to learn something new from a workshop & I've been in the business a long time. I liked the information about brain stimulation."

You Can Make a Difference Keynote Presentation
An inspiring and entertaining keynote presentation. With an engaging speaking style, Jackie will motivate you through a combination of child development information and philosophy mixed with a liberal dose of fun. You will return to your classroom with a new appreciation of yourself and the children that you work with. This is a fun, energizing session for all educators.

"Thank you very much for coming and performing in Singapore. It was great of you to conduct the workshops.

It has been an extraordinary experience learning such great techniques and differing activities to teach our children."

Concerts with Miss Jackie
Family Concerts - Miss Jackie understands the importance of family and uses songs to bring parents and their children closer together.

Chickenpox Doll Concert - A family concert including your favorite doll or stuffed animal with interactive songs. The dolls have as much fun as the children do!

"Jackie, I love your songs. I always teach my children the "Iowa" song you wrote for a conference I attended in Davenport. It has become a tradition to sing it every time we cross the Mississippi on outings going from Iowa to Illinois."