Daily Bulletin
Clark Elementary Bulletin for Thursday, November 12, 2026
GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS! Good morning, Clark...it's Thursday! Today is November 12th, the 54th day of school, and American Fancy Rat and Mouse Day.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY! On this day in 1799, Andrew Ellicott, an early American astronomer, witnessed the Leonids meteor shower from a ship off the Florida Keys. Ellicott wrote in his journal that the "whole heaven appeared as if illuminated with sky rockets, flying in an infinity of directions, and I was in constant expectation of some of them falling on the vessel. They continued until put out by the light of the sun after daybreak." Ellicott's journal entry is the first known record of a meteor shower in North America.
WEATHER Today's weather will be a bit cooler than the last few days. The high will be in the mid-forties, and the skies will be partly sunny.
VOCABULARY BUILDER-UPPER/WORD OF THE DAY Today's word of the day is lollygag (lol-ly-gage), a verb that means to loaf about and waste time or to dawdle. To lollygag is to be slow or idle or lazy. You lollygag when you take your own sweet time walking to your piano teacher's house, and you also lollygag when you lounge lazily in a hammock under a tree. The word lollygag is an American invention, a slang term that's sometimes spelled lallygag and may stem from the dialectical "tongue" meaning of lolly.
WHAT'S COOKING? Today for lunch, we will be munching on a scrumptious Bosco stick, delicious mac and cheese bites, or a PB&J. We have fresh fruit and veggies to consume and cartons of ice-cold milk to wash everything down with.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Ralph Marston once said, "There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them." Stay out of your own way. Don't make life more difficult by being rude or unkind to others. Choose to make this a stupendous Thursday!
Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.