First day wackiness: Students in Monique Brasher’s first grade class at Greywolf Elementary share some funny faces at their first day of school on Sept. 4. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

Fourth-graders Madyison Smith, left, and Cheyanne Stuenkel enjoy some breakfast and conversation just before classes start on the first day of school at Greywolf Elementary. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

Paraeducator Arnold Black gives high-fives to students at Greywolf Elementary on the first day of school. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

Fifth-grader Ryhen Bidasha gets a hug from teacher Sheri Burke on the first day of class at Greywolf Elementary School in Carlsborg. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

Greywolf student Jasper Flath talks with Alyssa Stratton of Sodexo on the first day ofschool at Greywolf Elementary. Sequim Gazette photo by Michael Dashiell

Emilie Cable, a paraeducator at Helen Haller Elementary, directs bus traffic at the end of the first day of school on Sept. 4. Bus traffic is anticipated to be unaffected during construction along West Fir Street, officials with the City of Sequim said. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

Second grader Lillian Nesset steps onto the bus after school on Sept. 4. She and hundreds of other Sequim students started school last week while area kindergartners started on Sept. 9. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

Fourth grader Payton Butler, left, and Hope Hottman, a fifth grader, ready to ride the Minnie Mouse bus driven by Rich Johnson at the end of Sequim School District’s first day of school on Sept. 4. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash

Aaron Reno and son Jude celebrate Jude’s first day of kindergarten at Greywolf Elementary on Sept. 4. Photo by Darcy Lamb

Friends walk to their bus at the end of the first day of school on Sept. 4. Sequim Gazette photo by Matthew Nash