Monterey Elementary School will dismiss students early today, Thursday, Aug. 28.

ROANOKE, Va. School certainly looked a lot different this year and for one local elementary school that includes their class photos. Since schools shut down across the commonwealth back in March, Monterey Elementary students missed out on their annual class picture. Teachers at Monterey in Roanoke City got creative and made Bitmoji class pictures. The principal says it took each teacher about four hours to create the entire class photo. Strother says the response from students and parents has been overwhelmingly positive.