Sandy Hook students resume classes for first time since school shooting

A student from Sandy Hook Elementary School stares out of the window of a bus that is making its way to their new school in Monroe, as they leave Newtown, Connecticut, January 3, 2013. 

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, MONROE - Sandy Hook Elementary School students, many accompanied by their parents, resumed classes at a

retrofitted school here on a bitterly cold Thursday morning, the Lookout wrote.

Their return comes less than a month after a gunman opened fire at their school in Newtown, killing 20 children and six adults, including principal Dawn Hochsprung, in one of the deadliest school shootings in US history.

Buses began arriving around 8:30 a.m. at Chalk Hill School, seven miles from their former building in Sandy Hook. The snowy roads leading to the school were lined with balloons, green and white ribbons—the school's colors—and signs welcoming the kids back.

"Work Hard," one sign affixed to a tree read. "Get Smart. Have Fun," read another.

Editor: Yeyen Rostiyani