Check out these classic back-to-school scenes from around the world

A mother passes a school cone to her daughter in 1927. It is a tradition in Germany for children to receive a big cardboard cone filled with candy and sweets from their parents when they set off for their first day in school.

Kindergarten girl shows off her books after her first day of school in 1929.

South London children are escorted across Blackfriars Road by a policeman on their first day back at school after the long summer holiday on Aug. 29, 1933.

Students greet the photographer by shaking their schoolbags in the air on their way to school for the first day of classes in France for the 1932-1933 school year.

French schoolboys chat in the street in front of their elementary school, on Oct. 1, 1944, in Paris for the first day of the new school year.

French schoolgirls arrive at their elementary school, on Oct. 1, 1945, in Paris for the first day of the new school year.

Winston Churchill (1940 - 2010), grandson of the wartime Prime Minister and son of Randolph Churchill, after his first day at school, on Oct. 5, 1945.

This undated photo shows parents with their children outside the Tokiwa Municipal Sho Gakko, a small children's school in Shiba, Tokyo, on the first day of school.

French schoolboys listen to their first lesson at a Paris elementary school on Oct. 1, 1947, during the first day of the new school year.

Melvin Turner (R) hands his teacher Miriam Fox flowers in their Grade 2a classroom on the first day of school in the Harlem neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, New York City, on Sept. 13, 1948. On the blackboard in the background, Fox wrote, “This is our first day in Class 2A.”

French school girls on their way to Paris region elementary school on Sept. 12, 1951, for the first day back at the end of summer.

French school girls on their way to their first day of school with their brand new satchels on Sept. 12, 1951, in Paris.

A schoolteacher begins her lesson at a primary school on the first day of the new school year on Oct. 1, 1951.

Happy youngsters in Berlin, Germany, leave an elementary school in the American sector, on their way home after the first day of the new school term in 1952. They are carrying "Schultuten," a traditional huge paper bag filled with fruits and candies, given to the school kids on the starting day of every new term.

Students sit at their desks on the first day of school in Algiers, Algeria, on Oct. 15, 1962.

First grade students at Paul Dever Elementary in Boston pose for a photo on the first day of school in 1965.

A mother takes a photo of her son's first day at school in Japan in 1966.

Three little girls chat in the playground of their school on Sept. 14, 1967. More than two million students return to school for the start of the school year.

Jim Hard, 6, of Framingham, and Joseph Reis, 7, of Roxbury, get acquainted on their first day of school at the Trotter School in Boston, on Sept. 3, 1969.

French school girls and boys rush to school with their brand new satchels for their first day of school on Sept. 11, 1970, in Paris.

Former First Lady Jackie Kennedy walks her children John, Jr. and Caroline to their first day of school.

Maranda Francisco seems shocked by the boys on the first day of school on Sept. 20, 1987 in Denver, Colorado.