Trauma experts say the return from spring break could be key for kids upset by Adre'Anna's death. "I gave her my favorite stuffed animal," Melissa Pitkanen told us tearfully last week. "My bunny rabbit I always sleep with. I just wanted to give her something."

Routine will help children cope with their sorrow and their fear.

"I don't know what to feel. I'm angry. I'm hurt. I'm uspet," Melissa said. "It's rough knowing you've known someone five years and they're just gone like that."

School children must now cope with the knowledge a friend - someone their age - was found dead and that classmates found her remains.

Nine-year old Manny Peters was one of the boys to make the gruesome discovery. "Dominque looked in the sticker bushes and he found a body and he showed me," Manny said.

Tilicum Elementary school had grief counselors on hand today to help the children. But perhaps most importantly - was getting the kids back into their routine.

Experts in traumatic stress say that normal routine helps kids cope.

"To give the kids the reality that these things do obviously happen, but that in general the world is a safe place," said counselor Heather Tatum of the Children's Response Center. "And these incidents are few and far between."

Parents are helping their kids by bringing them to the makeshift memorials - where they can talk about what's happened.

Caroline Wirth is Melissa's mother. "I just told them that she's in a better place. I don't know how to explain it. How do you tell them that something like that happens?" Wirth asked.

Experts say answer children's questions honestly, use simple language and be available.

Remember, kids are resilient, especially when they know adults in their lives are there for them.

Your child's school can be a good resource for finding a counselor.

You can also find helpful information at www.childrensresponsecenter.org.