Dear Leighton Families,

I hope everyone is enjoying these beautiful Fall days filled with warm temperatures and Fall colors. Somehow the days are turning into weeks and the weeks to months as the seasons change and our students grow in skills and knowledge! With the end of the first quarter ending today, we are looking forward to continuing to dive deep into our reading, writing, and math frameworks to refine our skills and challenge our thinking through using strategies learned, engaging in critical thinking and problem solving, and focusing on the process vs. the product as learning is social and a collaborative endeavor. The excitement of students and the high levels of engagement in classrooms during science and social studies lessons including problem-based learning, hands-on explorations, and innovation-driven projects is contagious. The academic rigor coupled with our supportive, safe, and nurturing learning environments that foster all learners continues to be paramount to our efforts to create the best possible learning environments for each student.

You may have noticed some campus renovations! In working with our grounds and maintenance crew, we have had a few trees on campus that were invasive species and needed to be removed. In their place will be newly sprouted grassy areas and plants to make our campus vibrant and seasonal. When on campus, stop by and check out the newly restored Leighton Garden and Trail. A huge thanks go out to our Fifth Grade teachers, students, and families who have given their time to help cultivate what began as a student-initiated proposal to create a beautification garden project. The garden and trail look great and we are excited to capitalize on the outdoor learning opportunities to come! Thank you to our current student, staff, and parent committee who gave of their Friday evening to help support the renovation of these two areas!

Lastly, we are excited about some upcoming events including Fall Festival, classroom parties, Fall conferences, and an upcoming band concert. Please see the information and important dates below pertaining to each of these items.

As always, I must convey the staff and my appreciation for entrusting us with your children each day! They fill our days with such joy and a love for learning that we continually hope they will pass along to others as we foster a strong sense of character education as well as our academic rigor. Thank you for your continued support, partnership, and teamwork as we work to ensure each learner reaches their fullest potential.

Kind Regards,

Michelle Nizen, Building Principal

Maria Goodman, Assistant Principal

If you would like to join the PTO please click the link and fill out the form.

http://auroraelementarypto.org/membership/

Head Room Parent Communication:

If you would like to receive communication from your head room parent, please click on the link and fill out the form.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeKGjTwj3kvxBeEWJHYTk9Dh7tg_pBsEKtoOQFhWd1GE3jeFQ/viewform?usp=sf_link

4th Annual 1 Mile Pumpkin Fun Run/Walk & 5K Haunted Hustle:

Saturday 10/16 at Sunny Lake Park

Schedule: 7:30 AM - Registration Begins

8:30 AM - 1 Mile Race Starts

9:30 AM - 5K Race Starts

Guyette Farms

Looking for a fun way to support the Aurora Elementary PTO and have some fun with your family this Fall? Well, mark your calendars for Friday, Oct 15th between 5 and 8 pm! Guyette Farms in Mantua will be hosting this upcoming fundraiser.

Admission is $7 per person and includes a maze, petting zoo, launcher, corn box, slides, round bale obstacle course, pumpkin bowling, hamster wheels, gourd golf, and hayride to the pumpkin patch. Pumpkins from the patch are $.25/lb.

Their market will be open with cornstalks, pumpkins, gourds, Indian corn, straw bales, honey, and syrup. They have so graciously offered to donate $2.00 per admission, so let's go have fun and help support the PTO.

We’re already halfway through our Charleston Wrap fundraiser! Have you registered yet? Can you TEXT 10 of your friends & family right now and help us reach our goal? #charlestonwrap #fundraiser #weneedyourhelp Sale extended to 10/29

As a reminder, please monitor your child for any COVID-related symptoms and contact our school nurse if you have any questions. We appreciate your attention to this.

• Check your child each day for COVID-related symptoms. If your child is showing any symptoms whatsoever, it is best to keep him/her home to monitor.
• Students sent home with a fever, may not return to school until they are fever-free without medication for at least 24 hours. This means if your child was sent home on Tuesday at 12:00 p.m. with a fever, he/she may not return to school until Thursday. If your child does return the next day, our school nurse will be calling for you to come to pick him/her up. Thank you for your support and efforts in this area.
  
• We have COVID-19 home testing kits available that we can send home with any child or family should you question symptoms or exposure. We will be able to answer any questions about these kits should the need arise.
• Please make sure your Final Forms medical information is up to date. We will closely read the health sections to address any medical concerns.

If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Tanski in the clinic at 330-954-2285 or email her at atanski@aurora-schools.org

**** If your child will be absent for an extended period, please reach out to your child's teacher and they will get school work ready for your student for the period of the absence. You may pick up the work outside the main office on a table that will be labeled with your student's name. We are a google district and utilize google classroom in our 3-5 classes. Please check in with your child's teacher about any google classroom posting and/or assignments in his/her absence.