LMMS Family Newsletter 

All School Announcements

• THANK YOU! We had a great first week with our students! Students enjoyed various team and community-building activities last week, culminating in a pep rally on a Friday afternoon. We really enjoyed cheering on our fall athletes and watching the HS Marching Band performance! 
• Please follow our Instagram page at lm_middleschool for weekly updates, news and photos from around the building! 
• MAP testing: Students are MAP testing 8/28-9/1 in Language Arts and Math classrooms. Please remind students to charge laptops each evening and to eat a nutritious breakfast in the morning prior to coming to school!

• Administrators met with each team of students to review expectations and procedures. We’re so excited for such a great start to the year! 

• Arrival and Dismissal Reminders and Updates! Thank you for your patience as we work through arrival and dismissal procedures. Please remember to be courteous to one another.  
• Arrival 
• UPDATE! Students can be dropped off at the cafeteria doors and the back-right door beginning at 6:40 AM 
• Families should create ONE line for drop off at these doors and should pull over to the left to drop off students and then pull back to the right to drive around the building. 
• Please remember to not park in parking spaces during drop off and pick up.  
• Beginning at 7:10, families can drop off at any door. Please pull over to the left to drop students off and then pull back to the right to drive around the building. 
• For student safety, please only drop students on the curbside. 
• Dismissal 
• Families may create two lines around the building for student pick-up. Car riders are released from the building at 2:00.  
• Please do not park on the grass during dismissal pick-up.  
• Barriers in the back of the building will be moved at 1:45 each afternoon.

• Picture Day Information: School Name: Little Miami Middle School 

Picture Day Date: Wednesday, August 30 

Picture Day ID: EVTW6HWFP 

Reminder: Update Secure Online Portal is now Open   

(Update key attributes regarding your students, including emergency medical and contact information, acknowledgment of the district policies and handbooks, and the computer/internet acceptable use policy.) 

How to Update Your Student's Information 

1. Go to: https://update.littlemiamischools.com  
2. Enter your username and password. The user name will be the first five letters of your student's last name (or entire last name if fewer than five letters), a dot, student's first initial, a dot, student's six-digit ID number. You must use a capital letter. Your student's six-digit ID number is the same as their lunch code. Example: Journ.N.123456 (case sensitive) Example: Lee.R.123456 (case senstive) 
3. Enter your password. Your password is the same as your username. 
4. Complete and/or update all required fields. 

LMMS Reminders:  

• School website: www.littlemiamischools.com  
• Click on “Schools”, then “Little Miami Middle School”, click on the tabs to find out about school information.  
  
   
• Attendance - To place an absence call, call by 9:00 a.m. Call (513) 899-3408 and leave a message on the attendance line extension 25488.  
  
   
• Lunch Accounts - You may apply money to a student’s lunch account by logging into www.payschoolscentral.com or by sending money to the school office. To check a student’s lunch balance, you can log on to www.payschoolscentral.com or call the school cafeteria at (513) 899-3408 extension 25491. You may also find the link on the Little Miami Schools website.  
  
   
• Transportation - To inquire about a transportation concern, call (513) 899-2941.  
  
   
• School Nurse - To speak with the school nurse, call (513) 899-3408, extension 25429. 

Upcoming Dates:   

Aug 29            MAP Testing ELA  

Aug 30            MAP Testing ELA  

Aug. 30           Fall Pictures  

Aug. 31           MAP Testing Math  

Sept. 01           MAP Testing Math  

Sept. 04           Labor Day – No School  

Sept. 5-15       MAP Testing Makeups  

Sept. 21           Parent Teacher Conferences 3:30 –7:00  

Sept. 22           7^th and 8^th Grade Dance 7:00 – 9:00  

Sept. 28           Parent Teacher Conferences 3:30 –7:00  

Oct. 5              Picture Retakes  

Oct. 9              Teacher In-Service – No School   

Oct. 10            7/8^th grade Choir Concert