Daily Bulletin
Clark Elementary Bulletin for Friday, August 28, 2026
GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS! Good morning, Clark...it's Friday! Today is August 28, the 5th day of school, and Crackers over Keyboard Day!
THIS DAY IN HISTORY! On this day in 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the African American civil rights movement reached its high-water mark when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech to about 250,000 people attending the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The demonstrators—Black and white, poor and rich—came together in the nation's capital to demand voting rights and equal opportunity for African Americans and to appeal for an end to racial segregation and discrimination.
WEATHER The weather will be amazing, and the sun will be shining.
VOCABULARY BUILDER-UPPER/WORD OF THE DAY The word of the day is ginormous (gi-nor-mous), which is an adjective that describes something that is very large. Elephants are ginormous, and so is the planet Jupiter. Always put the lid on the blender when in use, or you'll end up with a ginormous mess! English contains a lot of portmanteau words — words made by blending together two other words or their parts. Ginormous, if you haven't already guessed, was made by joining the beginning of gigantic to the end of enormous, combining two synonyms to emphasize how huge something is. Know which other words are made by blending? Cosplay, sitcom, and infomercial are a few. You can probably think of others!
WHAT'S COOKING? For our lunch today, we will gnaw on delicious Bosco sticks filled with gooey cheese, a mouth-watering turkey sub, 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, "Wake up in the morning and tell yourself: The people I will deal with today will be hurtful, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and mean. They will be like this because they can't tell the good from the bad, or the right from the wrong. But I have seen the beauty of the good, and I will not act that way." Remember that you and you alone choose your actions. Other kids or adults can't make you mad or make you treat people poorly. You control you. Choose to make this a ginormously awesome Friday.