LMMS Family Newsletter 

8.25.23 

All School Announcements 

• Please follow our Instagram page at lm_middleschool for updates, news and photos from around the building each week! 
• MAP testing: Students are MAP testing 8/29-9/1 in Language Arts and Math classrooms. Please remind students to charge laptops each evening and to eat a nutritious breakfast in the morning before coming to school!

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

Picture Day Date: Wednesday, August 30 

Picture Day ID: EVTW6HWFP

 

• Student Groups – Please see the attached link if you are interested in your student participating in any student groups this year
  https://forms.gle/X8qBA8B2A4CsNU7F9

• Project Pass – Project Pass is held Tuesday and Thursday from the end of the school day until 3:30 

• Project Pass is an afterschool supervised time for students to work on homework, get extra help with a class/subject area.  
• This year we will have Project Pass on Tuesday and Thursday from the end of the school day until 3:30. An aide will sit with students from 2:05 until 2:35 while teachers have their end of the day meetings and then teachers will work with students from 2:25 - 3:30. 
• We will send out a new form each month to sign up for Project Pass. Links to the form will be in the Parent Newsletter. 
• We will not have subject specific days this year and students should come prepared with work they need to complete.  
• If your student is not attending a session, you signed them up for, you can contact[email protected].  
• If we cancel project pass, we will make an announcement at the end of the day and make every effort to email parents. 
• To sign a student up for Project Pass, please fill out the form below.  Although we ask that you list who will pick up, this is simply to have a contact person. Just let your student know who to expect.
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  https://forms.gle/RyeTiUNWm7yCiGFBA

PTO Information: 

• Popcorn Friday and Snack Shack have resumed! Below are Sign Up Geniuses if you would like to volunteer! 
  • Popcorn Friday-https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0f48ada62ca75-popcorn?useFullSite=true#/
  • Snack Shack-https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0e4aa8a82ea7fbc70-snack9?fbclid=IwAR3ze3o8n-q_qnhHGwWh40n_4aKoBTVD9EDeqBWjvwDs209HEuAHzddwTs4#/
• PTO meetings will the 1st Monday of the month at 3pm in the LMMS conference room.  However, the 1st meeting will be Monday September 11th at 3pm due to Labor Day.  
• PTO is hosting a Fall Dance for 7^th and 8^th grade students from 7-9 PM on Friday 9.22! 
• PTO membership form.  

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 not to 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.
    
    
    
    LMMS Reminders:  
    
     
• School website: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 payschoolscentral.comor by sending money into the school office. To check a student’s lunch balance, you can logon 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 

Elyse Parker

Assistant Principal​