A student follows one-way arrows to get to her desk at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
More than 2,000 Salem and Keizer kids met their teachers face-to-face for the first time in nearly a year as kindergarten and first graders resumed in-person classes Tuesday.
The Salem-Keizer School District is to date the largest in Oregon to begin regular in-person instruction.
At Richmond Elementary in south Salem, about 40 students filed into three classrooms after checking in around 8 a.m.
READ MORE: Salem’s youngest students head back to in-person classes
-Rachel Alexander
Nyjah Angeles raises a hand during the first day back to school at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
A staff member passes out erasers to students waiting to check in for the first day back to school at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
Teacher Crystal Magee talks with Giovanni Fajardo Perez while he eats breakfast on the first day back to school at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
Giovanni Fajardo Perez, a student in Crystal Magee’s kindergarten and first grade classroom, uses colored pencils on the first day back to school at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
Maggie Rivera, community school outreach coordinator, greets students for the first day back to school at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
Sylas Sylva arrives for the first day of in-person kindergarten at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
Teacher Crystal Magee talks with Giovanni Fajardo Perez while he eats breakfast on the first day back to school at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
Teacher Crystal Magee, center, welcomes a student to her classroom for the first day back to school at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
Lucas Gage arrives by bus for the first day of in-person kindergarten at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
Shawntay Benjamin drops off daughter Nayvah Creer for the first day of in-person kindergarten at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
Teacher Crystal Magee talks with students in her mixed class of kindergarteners and first grade students at Richmond Elementary on Tuesday, March 2. (Amanda Loman/Salem Reporter)
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