"Bruno Ciari" Primary School,  Cocomaro di Cona (Ferrara, Italy) - Our "counting-out rhymes " research project

Our research: local level

 

We started our research by listening to and collecting all the counting-out rhymes known to the pupils attending our school with the aim of  publishing them in our school newspaper, the “Gazette di Cocomaro.”  In view of the growing interest and  curiosity our project aroused, we also began to involve parents, grandparents and friends.  We then invited readers of the magazine to help us enrich the collection.
During the 1994-95 school year, we decided to ask for contributions from the schools participating  in the Kidslink project (Bologna, Italy).  Our first e-mails asking for material were sent to the Primary and Middle schools.
Some schools helped by  sending material that we then included in a Newspaper Conference.
At the end of this initial stage,  our archives contained approximately two hundred  counting-out rhymes.

Mauro Presini

Thanks to Charles Goodger for the translation 

Counting-out rhymes: home

This page was created by:
Mauro Presini, teacher at the "Bruno Ciari" Primary School di Cocomaro di Cona (Ferrara, Italy)