Surrounded by Secret Service agents and awaited by throngs of reporters and cameramen, Sasha and Malia Obama began classes as normally as possible Monday morning at Sidwell Friends School.

A caravan of sport utility vehicles carrying the girls and their mother departed from the incoming first family’s temporary home at the Hay-Adams Hotel just after sunrise, and swept them away to Malia’s middle school campus in the District, and Sasha’s primary campus in Bethesda, according to reports.

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