Early Release and New Student

The last two days of field experience through everyone for a loop.  On Friday school was released 3 hours early due to the blizzard like conditions. My cooperating teacher stated in all the years she has taught at the school, there has only been 1 day of class where they had a 2 hour early release, but have never had a 3 hour early release due to the weather. To say the least, everyone in the school was frantic on what to do, where to send the students, and in this case, where to send the students who did not return their winter weather emergency sheets. The students were frantic that their parents would not be able to get them at school and they would have to stay all weekend long! Overall, all the students found their parents or the bus to get home Friday!
Today, Monday, we had a new student start in the class. The class has been waiting anxiously for the new friend to start as we were told it was supposed to happen last week. The Kindergarteners kept asking questions about what the new friend was going to look like, who he would play with, and what things he would be interested in. They would not stop talking about him and he hadn't even started yet. When he arrived today right before lunch, the Kindergarteners waved to him, but seemed very afraid to talk to him. I was expecting the complete opposite because of their constant questions earlier in the week. I am sure as the week goes on the students will become more comfortable talking to the student and he will fit in nicely with the class!