It is World Kindness Day! The theme is "Be Kind Wherever Possible".
Another way to do this is to let someone know they are appreciated. You can do this through our Dragon Shout Outs for students/staff. Just fill out the form linked here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdx3ioBu9y4xbNQHG5Ne1CaHAuJ4P3GD4H_pSKMogxXnnxcQQ/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0
FCA students (and all students!) are challenged to do something kind for someone today. Students will be asked to think about what they can/will do for someone today and fill out a card at lunch.
Taken from https://www.becomingminimalist.com/ten-simple-ways-to-build-each-other-up/, here are 10 simple ways to build each other up:
Esteem others higher. Leaders esteem others higher than themselves. Have high regards, great respect, and favorable thoughts of the people in your circle of trust and influence.
Be wise in your speech. Communicate more effectively by thinking before you speak. If there’s a word that’s more appropriate in a conversation, use it. Start with a praise. Never confront others. Instead, point out on how both of you can make things better. Speak at the same level as your audience; giving them due respect. There’s no need to come in with an authoritarian voice to get your message heard.
Be encouraging. Encouragement is an expression and assurance of one’s hope and future in words, presence, and sincerity.
Be quick to forgive. When others make a mistake, be quick to forgive and forget; releasing them from guilt and shame that may take root in one’s heart when not dealt with over time.
Be understanding. Wisdom and understanding go hand in hand. Understanding starts by being an active listener (not planning a reply as one is speaking), asking intelligent questions to gain further insights, and being accepting of what the speaker is sharing. Then, answer without condemning. Or don’t answer at all and decide to just be a listening ear.
Zero gossip. Keep others’ secrets. Never speak stuff that causes unnecessary hurt to others by speaking unclaimed rumors behind their back.
Share knowledge. Found an article or book that’s useful? Share it with your friends. Sharing has been made easier thanks to the accessibility of sharing tools on the web, along with help from social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Sharing knowledge helps us learn, discover, and understand things that are interesting. They have immediate application for better results in our work and life, edifies our soul, and improves our daily conversations.
Stay humble. Humility and maturity are synonymous. A dignified person accomplishes much, but brags little. They are secure in their standing without needing to make noise, often treating everyone with tremendous respect, regardless of position.
Be positive! Positive thinking goes beyond having the drive and motivation for personal success. Positive thinking is explicit, definite, and outspoken. It’s contagious. Build up your loved ones with your positiveness, allowing them to be open for better things to come.
Love. Building up a person with the 9 ways mentioned is only made effective when done so together with love. Care for your loved ones how you would want to be cared for. Build up one another how you would like to be inspired. As a result, you will move up to a whole new level of breakthroughs in life.
Going one step further, visualize how and to whom you can build up and inspire changes for the better. Then work towards making that a reality.
Continue encouraging and building one another up. And start seeing growth and advancements in your relationship with people and to the ones who truly matter to you today.
Go out & do kind things - and appreciate when someone does the same thing for you!
The JH wrestling meet will begin at 4:30 PM today in Fairbury, not 10 AM as previously noted on our calendar.
Last week, Johnny Hinz finished first and Rigley McDonald finished second, in the opening meet of the season at SC. These boys and their teammates from Superior will be wrestling again on Thursday in Superior at 4 PM.
Get out and support them if you can!
Changes to the regular school day include…
🎄MON: Wreath orders due from music students
✋TUE: AMC Math Competition & TVC One Act
💉WED: Healthcare pathway to visit Bryan Health
🧑🎓THU: Home Rooms must be signed up for chili supplies for next week’s cookoff; 10th Gr Pre-ACT; 11th Gr Co Gov’t Day; JH Quiz Bowl & Hold Drill
🧑💻FRI: 7th Gr to Inventure Day (pack a lunch!); K-12 Game Day in Home Room
🍲NEXT MON: QPR Training for 7-12 & Home Room makes chili
🏀NEXT TUE: Poverty Simulation for HS; Chili Cook Off for 7-12; Turkey of the Year competition; 1st HS BB games of the season
🦃WED - FRI: NO SCHOOL - HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
More info/links at: https://bit.ly/DPSDAILYNEWS
As we work to build our "DPS prize stash" for students recognized for exemplary behavior, we wanted to reach out to the public to see if you would be interested in helping us out at:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/10UYN450278CJ?type=wishlist
Thank you!
Congratulations and best of luck to the following students who will be competing in the JH TVC Quiz Bowl on Thursday, November 16th:
7th grade: Jackson Beam, Brayden Gausman, Heston Vacek
8th grade: Spencer Foutch, Makenna Freitag, Teagan Webber.
This is also a reminder that HS Quiz Bowl Tryouts will be held on Mon., Nov. 20th, during Home Room - any HS student is encouraged to try out!
Go and support the Junior High Girls' Basketball Team as they take on the Sandy Creek Cougars! They play at home on Monday, October 13th at 6:30 PM and 7:30 PM.
Congratulations to our Family Math Night winners! Special thank you to the following businesses for their donations: Affiliated Brokers Insurance, The Hair Hut, Midwest Bank, Free Day Popcorn, and C&M Supply in Deshler.
Thank you to our veterans - not just today, but every day! DPS also wants to thank our speaker, Dena Ylescas Johnston. We appreciate the work that Ms. Jay's class put into recognizing this day as well. Happy Veterans Day!
Good luck to our junior high quiz bowl team as they are competing in the TVC Quiz Bowl Meet on Thursday, November 16th!
Go out and support the JH Wrestlers at their meet on Monday in Fairbury!
A BIG THANK YOU to all of the families who attended Family Math Night! Winners of the estimation jars and door prize will be announced on Friday!
We packed in a lot tonight...from the parent/community meeting to math night to night of the arts (the one act, show choir and artwork)...it was a busy day and night at DPS! We hope to see all of you tomorrow morning at 10 AM for our Veterans Day Program! Thank you, veterans!
BIG PIG HAS MOVED...to the FB field (no longer at the city park), but they are set up & ready for business!
Today is the day...let's welcome BIG PIG FOOD TRUCK into town! You can pre-order for lunch or pick up a pound of meat to have later! They are serving from 11 AM to 7 PM in the Deshler City Park. Please note when pre-ordering if you want PULLED PORK or PULLED CHICKEN, and you will be taken to the options from there. The form to pre-order is saved as: bit.ly/BIGPIGNOV9.
Following this, we have our Family Math Night at 5:30 PM, followed by our Night of the Fine Arts at 7 PM. Expect to see the one act perform, followed by the show choir singing and a display of our students' artwork.
Tomorrow morning, we will have our Veterans Day Program at 10 AM. Those performing are listed in the program here: https://bit.ly/DPSVETERANSDAY.
The Veterans Day program WILL be streamed at https://www.youtube.com/@DPSDRAGONS. Night of the Fine Arts will NOT be streamed (as the one act is on the stage & the Hudl camera does not pick this up).
Today started with all business -- as our juniors attended the College Fair at the fairgrounds -- and ended with some fun as the staff made caramel apples after the inservice!
It's National STEM day, and the 7th graders have had a busy and fun-filled quarter so far! From creating our own video games, engineering a phone stand, exploring our interests and working on our Genius Hour projects, these kids have definitely let their ingenuity and creativity shine!
A big thank you to Erin Johnson, the DPS school psych intern from ESU #5, as we recognize School Psych Week!
Erin has her bachelors in Psychology and Behavior Science from Concordia and is working on her Education Specialist degree from UNK now. Thank you for all you do, Erin!
The boys basketball team competed clean-up activities in Ruskin and Hebron.Thank you to those who provided the work opportunities!!
Deshler FBLA is selling beef sticks...these make great stocking stuffers & will be here in time for the holidays! Just complete the form below, send the check to the school, and be ready for those hard-to-buy-for people! ORDERS DUE BY TUE, NOV 21ST!
https://bit.ly/DPSBEEFSTICKS
Thank you to all of you who supported the FCA pink out fundraiser...the money earned was used to help purchase two infusion pumps for the chemo room, as well as comfort bags for all new oncology patients at Thayer County Health Services.
