It’s coming close to the end of the school year.
Within a few weeks seniors at Clarkston High School will be taking their final exams and walking the school for one final time with friends and family members lining the hallways. Donned in their caps and gowns the tradition will get them ready for graduation on June 1.
Students in other schools around Clarkston Community Schools will also be counting down the days until they embark on their next journey as fifth graders have their goodbye picnics and celebrations, seventh graders and freshmen clean out their lockers to move on to the junior high and the high school.
Elementary students will embark on running and playing during upcoming field days – and with any luck it won’t be as rainy as last week.
I know it’s only May and it’s a bit early, but I hope you had a good year. I hope you learned a lot. I hope you are able to tell your teachers, coaches and parents thank you because the end of the year is approaching quicker than you think it is.
I learned a lot through my many years in school from the ABCs in elementary school to the math equations I won’t ever use from calculus classes. Some are ingrained into my head, some lessons I can’t recall.
Some lessons came randomly to me and didn’t come from textbooks but experiencing life. Particularly retail and working in a environment geared to families and children.
As I was cleaning up after my 17-month-old son last week, I began contemplating. One, why was I sorting the toys into particular containers when the tiny human tornado would go through it again? (Because I like to organize…apparently.)
The second thought was what retail taught me that prepared me for a child of my own. One of the things was recovery, which is really cleaning up and being able to do it quickly and efficiently.
Just begin in one spot and work from there. Sometimes I get caught in the big picture or in last week’s case – the giant room. Like anything – it needs to be done, just take it little by little. I finished within an hour. It took a few days for most of the toys to make it back on to the floor.