Daily Bulletin
Clark Elementary Bulletin for Thursday, August 27, 2026
GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS! Good morning, Clark Elementary! Today is Thursday, August 27, the 4th day of school, and it's National Just Because Day!
THIS DAY IN HISTORY! On this day in 1964, Disney's Mary Poppins was released in the US, featuring its classic song "Spoonful of Sugar." The tune was inspired when writer Richard Sherman's son received an oral polio vaccine soaked into a sugar cube.
WEATHER The weather will be a bit on the toasty side. The high will be in the eighties, and the skies will be full of sunshine.
VOCABULARY BUILDER-UPPER/WORD OF THE DAY The word of the day is curiosity (kind), which is a noun that means a state in which you want to learn more about something. Curiosity is the urge you feel to know more about something. If you find a diary in a coffee shop, curiosity will make you want to look inside — but respect for the writer's privacy may convince you not to. Curiosity is the state of being curious: inquisitive, wondering, ready to poke around and figure something out. The word used to mean "very, very careful," and only in the last few hundred years turned into a word expressing the desire to know more. Maybe that's because when you're poking around in secret business, you need to be very, very careful. We also call weird things curiosities, like a phone shaped like a duck, or a shark in a jar.
WHAT'S COOKING? For our lunch today, we will feast on delicious chicken strips crammed full of only the choicest chicken parts, a mound of fluffy mashed potatoes, or a delicious PB&J. We have fresh fruits and veggies to munch on and a carton of refreshing, ice-cold milk to wash it all down.
QUOTE OF THE DAY Marcus Aurelius, a big thinker and Roman Emperor, once said, "Understand that some things are out of your control. Don't waste energy worrying about them. Instead, accept what cannot be changed and make the best of it." There are things in our lives that none of us can control. We have a choice; we can whine and complain, or we can accept it, lean into it, and make the best of it. Choose, because it is always a choice, to make this a phenomenal Thursday!