Dear Leighton Families,

I can not believe there are only 10 more days of school left in the 21-22 school year. It has been such a wonderful school year and the growth our student have shown, both academically and social emotionally, has been amazing to watch. This is such a testiment to the resilency, support, and fostering of ideals of our entire educational community to ensure our learners are future ready. The end of the school year is also a time of reflection to allow us to celebrate our successes and make modifications to areas in which we would like to continue to grow. While our teams within the building are getting ready for summer break, we are also setting ourselves up for another success school year by using data to continually plan for curricular and SEL needs. In the hussle and bussle of the end of the school year we continue to keep the lense of our learners and ensuring to create those small and big moments together to ensure they continue to thrive!

Please be sure to reference the important dates section included at the end of each newsletter for up to date infromation including 2nd to 3rd Grade trip to Leighton, 5th to 6th Grade trip to Harmon, Band and Orchestra concerts; 5th Grade Clap out (Students only with PTO livestreaming the event..please note this is due to safety with cars and bus riders being at capacity in the parking lot), and Field Days (With Kona Ice Trunk treat during lunches). Thank you to our amazing PTO who has once again organized an amazing Field Day experience for our students and helped support several of our end of the school events. Please be sure to check out the pictures for some of the fun events that occured this past week! There will be many more to come!

Thank you for entrusting your children to our care. We are looking forward to having an outstanding end of the school year together. Thank you for all your support, patience, and partnership as we head into the home strech of this school year. Stay tuned for all the end of the year memories we capture in our upcoming newsletter!!

Kind Regards,

Mrs. Michelle Nizen, Building Principal

Mrs. Maria Goodman, Assistant Principal

Our UDL (Universally Designed Lessons) hone in on each focus skill allowing us to explicitly teach those skills, reinforce them, and connect them to our strategic vision including our 6 competencies of a learner (critical thinker, collaborator, innovator, resilient, balanced, and empathetic). Ms. Mazzella also capitalizes on teaching these skills in her classroom lessons focused on various topics including friendships, growth mindset, perseverance as it relates to school work, etc.

We announced our next Golden Fork winners and congratulations went out to Mrs. Core, Mrs. Landberger, and Mrs. Skeels! These classrooms earn this honor by demonstrating our 3 pillars in the lunchroom and at recess while following all the expectations. These classrooms will be passing the Golden Fork along to the next winning classes to display outside their classroom doors next week.

Our next monthly PBIS office raffle will be Wednesday, May 25th. Students are busy turning in their caught being good tickets to the office and we are busy getting ready for our building-wide drawing! Caught being good tickets will be read over the announcements and students will pick a prize from our PBIS rewards cart.

You might have heard that during the month of May each classroom has two secret missions which are tied to our 3 pillars and focus skill for students to work on earning Monday- Thursday of each week. On Friday, all classes who have earned their secret mission will earn a "Fun Friday" reward and a chance to earn the Principal's award.

Lastly, our 4th quarter PBIS building wide reward will be a school wide Bingo Event! Thank you to our PTO for helping with prizes for this fun event!

Here are some great resources to support your PBIS efforts at home. Thank you for your partnership!

Leighton Pride is Building Wide!

https://www.pbis.org/resource/supporting-families-with-pbis-at-home

https://www.pbis.org/resource/supporting-families-with-pbis-at-home

FLOWER DELIVERY DAY

THANK YOU to all who ordered from our spring Foertmyer & Sons fundraiser!!!

PICK UP for the flowers is this SUNDAY MAY 15th in the Leighton Parking lot from 9:15am - 1:00pm

FIELD DAYS ARE COMING!!!

We are happy to let you know that we will be holding 5th Grade Field Day on Thursday May 26th if you would like to volunteer please use the link below

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60b0b4ca5aa2daa8-5thgrade1

3rd & 4th Grade Field Days will be held on Friday May 27th.

On Friday May 27th the PTO is providing Gionino's Pizza for lunch for all grade levels. We have sign ups to help supplement a side and water. Please see the links below if you can help.

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508084AAEA628A6FD0-3rdgrade

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508084AAEA628A6FD0-4thgrade

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508084AAEA628A6FD0-5thgrade

KONA ICE TRUCK

Our PTO is supplying Kona Ice for all students for Field Days. The shaved ice truck will be visiting Leighton Elementary School on Thursday May 26th and Friday May 27th during each grade's recess.

We have included important allergen information for you to know about the ice flavor concentrates used on the icy treat. If your child requires an alternative option, please let your child's teacher know and we will make sure an allergy-safe option is provided. Additionally, if you do not want your child to have the flavored ice treat, please reach out to your child's teacher and we will provide an alternative option.

https://www.kona-ice.com/flavorwave/nutrition.aspx

https://www.kona-ice.com/pdf/allergen_certification.pdf

Want to Help Next Year?

Use this link to sign up to chair events next year. If you have any questions, please feel free to email auroraptopres@gmail.com

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pb-R4mz0HSKHaBPkl7FV-LCTPZDR16CIcT1IYwIa26g/edit?usp=sharing

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.