The writer and the copyright for the nursery rhyme “Two Little Blackbirds” is unknown. The basic benefits are hand gestures, singing, and learning rhyme. The Two Little Blackbirds song is about a one black bird named Jack and another named Jill that had both flown away and then come back home. This rhyme can be preformed with hand puppets or with hand gestures. These hand gestures are when the teacher old up an index finger from one hand and an index finger from another hand to represent he blackbirds. The teacher will put her right hand behind her back to represent one of the birds flying away and her left hand behind her back to meant the other bird had flown away. She will put pull out her hand and hold up each index finger to represent the birds returning. “Come back Jack”( bring back one index finger) “Come back Jill” ( bring back the other index finger. ) Most of the time the story of the blackbirds is recited, but there is also a song about it.
Music
Children ages from 0 to 6 years, or preschool age on average, can benefit from music and songs. Music combined with education will stimulate both the right and left side of the brains when they learn songs in class.
Rhymes
The blackbird tune will help children learn about rhymes. These rhymes contain Jill and hill. Parents and teachers can also create songs about blackbirds sitting in the snow, one named Fast and the other named Slow. Two blackbirds sitting on a cloud, one named Soft and the other Loud. The trick to the rhymes is that one of the names of the blackbirds has to rhyme with where the blackbirds are sitting. If you noticed, the names of the blackbirds are both opposite such as Jack and Jill, Fast and Slow, Soft and Loud. Children can learn logic and phonics through the sound of the way the words are pronounced and what the words mean such as fly away and come back are opposites. There’s no end, other than a child’s attention span, to how many rhymes you can come up with in this blackbird tune.
Gestures
While most tunes for children were not created with gestures. This a great activity for children under the age of two. Most people are playing “Pat A Cake” and “Peek a Boo” with children as young as infancy. Gestures are a way of developing a child’s motor coordination.
Creativity
Teachers can encourage preschool age children to create finger puppets in arts and crafts. Finger puppets can take the blackbird tune to another level as the children learn what a blackbird actually looks like. The students can learn how to perform the tune with the puppets on their fingers.
Skills
By learning the blackbird tune, whether it is with hand gestures or with finger puppets, the students can learn about paying attention in class and learning cooperation