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Local kindergarteners head back to school

School districts began bringing youngest learners back to the classroom for small-group, in-person learning this week

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Kindergarten teacher Marilyn Canfield leads students at Helen Baller Elementary School in Camas on Monday, Nov. 9, the first day of in-person kindergarten classes at the school district since the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered classrooms throughout Clark County in March 2020. (Contributed photo by Doreen McKercher, courtesy of the Camas School District)

Hundreds of Camas-Washougal kindergarten students experienced their classrooms for the first time this week, after leaders in both school districts OK’d the reopening of school buildings for their youngest learners.

Doug Hood, the Camas School District’s director of elementary education, said the first day of in-person, small-group kindergarten classes, held Monday, Nov. 9, took a lot of work to coordinate but, in the end, went smoothly.

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