Dear Leighton Families,

Here we are rounding the corner to our Thanksgiving Break as we have officially experienced a shift in our Fall weather to be much chiller. Please continue to ensure your child is dressed for this weather shift as we go outside for recess as long as the weather is permitting. As we near the start of Thanksgiving Break, we also spend some time reflecting on those things for which we are thankful. As I walk around the building, I love hearing these reflections from staff and students especially when the responses from staff are "our students" and the responses from our students are "our teachers". What a testament to the relationships cultivated and the safe, supportive learning environments created to support each student and help them reach their fullest potential.

We had a wonderful two weeks of parent teacher conferences. Thank you to all of our parents who came to celebrate with us your child's successes and ways we can continue to grow. We rounded off our week celebrating Veteran's Day and acknowledging all those who have served our country. See below for some pictures of a special speaker who joined some of our 4th Grade classes. We are so appreciative of your service.

We are looking forward to another wonderful week of learning and growing and then settling in to a small break to celebrate all those things for which we are thankful. As always, we thank each of you for the continued support, partnership, and teamwork as work to keep our learners at the center of all we do.

Kind Regards,

Michelle Nizen, Building Principal

Ben Lehman, Assistant Principal

Students are hard at work earning poms and filling up their classroom jars! When these jars are filled, student bring their classroom jars to the office and empty them into the Building Wide Pom Pom Pail!!

We have filled up our second Pom Pom Pail and will be getting ready to celebrate our next building wide reward.

"Platinum platter" award winners abound as our classes are doing a great job demonstrating our 3 pillars during lunch and recess. Classes are always working to earn "positive compliments" during lunch and recess. Every two weeks, classes who earn the most "positive compliments" earn the right to display the "platinum platter" outside their classroom door for all to see and enjoy popsicles at lunch or an extra recess with Mrs. Nizen and Mr. Lehman.

Pom Pom Shout Out are shared over the announcements every day where we acknowledge students over announcements who have earned a special shout out for outstanding efforts in demonstrating our 3 pillars in their academic or behavioral pursuits. Students will receive a pom pom shout out classroom reward and those names are entered into a monthly drawing to pick out of our PBIS store at the end of the month.

Leighton Pride is Building Wide!

Giving Tree: AEPTO has partnered again with the Center of Hope and with Leighton Leaders in their service project to collect gift cards, hats, gloves and scarfs to give to local families in need. This is a voluntary opportunity for us to give back in our community. See the permission slip your child will bring home for more details. Permission slips are due back on November 9th. Thank you Kayt Binns for helping with this project.

Leighton Picture retake: will be on Thursday November 17th. More information to come when I receive it

Holiday Shop: During the week of November 28 - December 2 students will have a chance to shop at Leighton's Holiday Shop! In the coming weeks information will come home with your student, so be on the lookout!

Winterfest: Winterfest is back at Leighton and will be held on Wednesday December 21st. It will be half a day and the chairs for this event have been contacted. That is all the details I have for right now.

UPCOMING AEPTO COMMUNITY EVENTS

Disney on Ice January 6th- January 15th

Use CODE: NEOPTA22 for discounted tickets

https://www.rocketmortgagefieldhouse.com/group/detail/fieldhouseplus

Monsters Game January 28th 7 p.m.

Discounted Tickets for $ 23.00

Kalahari February 16th

Discounted Room Rates for $154.00

If you need any additional information or have any questions please contact Stacy Golding, AEPTO President at auroraptopres@gmail.com

UPCOMING EVENTS

11/7-11/10: MES- Scholastic Book Fair

11/8: CES- Teacher Conferences

11/9: PTO Meeting 6:30PM @ C&I Building

11/10: CES- Teacher Conferences

LES- Teacher Conferences 5:30PM-8:30PM

11/14 MES-Picture Retakes

11/17: LES- Picture Retakes

11/23-11/25: No School Thanksgiving Break

11/28-11/30: LES- Holiday Shop

12/1-12/2: LES- Holiday Shop

12/2: CES- Gather Report Cards Live

12/5-12/7: CES- Holiday Shop

12/6: LES- Choir Concert 6:30PM and Vocal Music Concert 7:30PM @ LES

12/8-12/9: MES- Holiday Shop

12/15: LES- Orchestra Concert 4th Grade 6:30PM and 5th Grade 7:30PM @ AHS

12/21: Winter Fest Class Parties

12/22-12/31: No School Winter Break

Thank you to all of our members, we couldn't do all this without you!

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Stacy Golding

Aurora Elementary PTO

PTO President

auroraptopres@gmail.com

Please remember that when you take your child out of school for a doctor or dentist appointment, the State of Ohio requires that a doctor's note be brought back to the school for attendance purposes. You can give the note to the secretaries in the main office. If you have any questions, please contact Joy Sharrotta at the main office at 330-954-2206 or email her at jsharrotta@aurora-schools.org

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

• Check your child each day for any signs of illness. If your child has a temperature of 100 degrees or greater, vomiting or diarrhea they need to stay home. For cold/flu-like symptoms such as cough, congestion and sore throat that are not well contained, it is preferred they stay home. If you would like your student to have cough drops at school, please send them in with a note or email the clinic.
• Students sent home with a fever, vomiting or diarrhea may not return to school until they are free of these symptoms without medication for 24 hours. This means if your child was sent home in the afternoon he/she may not be able to return to school the next day. If your child returns too soon, our school nurse may be calling for you to come to pick him/her up if your child is not feeling well. 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.

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