What Do You Tell a Four-Year-Old When It’s Time for a Lockdown Drill?

The question teachers asked me most was simple: what do you tell a four-year-old when it’s time for a lockdown drill? Here are the words that work, and what happened when I ran drills at our centers after reading the story first.
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Lockdown Drills Through the Eyes of a Preschooler

My kids came home from school with wildly different ideas of what a lockdown drill was. One thought they were hiding from rabid animals. Here’s what that taught me about how we explain these drills to young children, and why I ended up writing a book about it.
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