The new Sandy Hook Elementary is seen on the Jan. 3 on the first day of school for students and teacher who survived the Dec. 14 shooting. The school, formerly known as Chalk Hill, was overhauled especially for the students in the neighboring town of Monroe, Conn.

Students return to class for the first time since a gunman killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. They are attending a neighboring school that has been filled with items from the original building. NBC’s Rehema Ellis reports.




A parent greets her child as she gets off a school bus returning from the first day of classes at the new Sandy Hook School on Jan. 3.

Families from Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. are on the field before the game between the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles at MetLife Stadium on Dec. 30, in East Rutherford, N.J.

A school bus stops in front of 26 angels along the roadside as it travels from  

 Newtown, Conn., to Monroe on the first day of classes for Sandy Hook Elementary School students since the Dec. 14 shooting. Chalk Hill School in Monroe was overhauled especially for the students from the Sandy Hook School shooting.

Greg Gnandt and Guy Veneruso work on the installation of 26 stars on the roof of the Sandy Hook fire station on Jan. 1 in Newtown, Conn. The stars were made and installed by a group of local contractors, led by Gnandt, to honor the memory of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting.