In a joint statement to The Washington Post, Somerville Mayor Joseph Curtatone and Public Schools Superintendent Mary Skipper said the poem ... rhyme about lockdowns posted on the wall of a ...

I wanted to skip 4 so I could go to kindergarten ... You yourself have memorized some poems and didn’t even know it: jump rope rhymes! Do you remember? Here’s the one that first popped ...

For I know how hard it is to leave and know your child must stay," the rhyming poem began in part. Wade said her 5-year-old twin daughters were “so excited” to start kindergarten at the “big ...

"This poem is an example of how one of our educators used a rhyme to help her young students stay calm and remember the key steps they would need to follow during a drill or real emergency." ...