Panther Cub Express: 10/11/24

This week, students at the ECC had visits from many local community helpers. Fire fighters, police officers, and EMA came in to talk with students about safety awareness and what to do during an emergency. Make sure to talk with your child about a safety plan for your home and designate a meeting spot in the event of an emergency.

Doors Open: 9:10 a.m. - School Day Begins: 9:25 a.m. - School Day Ends: 3:55 p.m.

AM Kindergarten & Preschool: 9:10 a.m. to 12:10 p.m.

October 11 -End of Quarter 1

October 14 - PD Day- No School for Students

October 16 - Fall Conferences (4:30- 8:00) & Scholastic Book Fair

October 18 - Shine on Yoga Assembly

October 18 - Quarter 1 Grades Posted on ProgressBook

October 24 - Fall Photo Retakes

October 24 - Trunk or Treat at LMECC (5:00-7:30)

• 5pm- Food trucks arrive & trunk set up

• 6pm- trunk-or-treating begins

October 25 - Shine on Yoga Assembly

October 31 - Classroom Fall Parties

November 1 - Shine on Yoga Assembly

November 1-15 - Read A Thon Fundraiser

November 5 - PD Day- No School for Students

November 7 - PTO Meeting at 6pm

November 11- Raising Canes Fundraiser Night

November 27-29 - Thanksgiving Break- No School

This week has been a busy week but full of lots of fun and learning, with had book fair visits and safety week! We have been learning about how to be safe through demonstrations from the EMA, police, and fire departments. We learned what emergencies we should call 911 for, how to stop, drop and roll, and how officers are they to help us.

Thank you to our wonderful community helpers!

We have finished our introductory ways of moving in the gymnasium for our First Graders in Physical Education! We started working on how we throw this week with a game called Clean out the Backyard. As we continue over the next few weeks, we will cover how we can aim as well as adjust the throw to throw it straighter or higher depending on what type of target we are aiming for.

If your student is trying to work on throwing at home:

1. Turn to your side with your body between the ball and the target

2. Make an L with your throwing arm

3. Step forward with your opposite foot

4. Twist as you throw

PTO Officers

Amanda Hollingsworth- President

Jessica Vierling- Vice President

Jennifer Slifer- Treasurer

Emily Rottinger- Secretary

Upcoming PTO Meeting: November 7th at 6pm in the ECC Library

https://www.lmeccpto.org/

Please reach out to the PTO via Facebook (Facebook.com/LMECCPTO) or email (LMECCPTO@gmail.com) with questions or if you’d like to get involved!

Trunk or Treat Details!

5pm- Food trucks arrive & trunk set up

6pm- trunk-or-treating begins

As part of our commitment to effective communication with our families, we are excited to announce that we now have three dedicated phone lines available for families who speak Uzbek, Russian, or Spanish. By calling these numbers, families will first be connected to an interpreter before being routed to the district office and the appropriate building.

More information can be found at the links below:

English

Uzbek

Russian

Spanish

DID YOU KNOW? By the age of three, a child’s brain is already 80% developed, and, by the time a child enters kindergarten, they must already know thousands of words in order to succeed in the classroom. Reading aloud to a child and giving them access to books is the best way to ensure they are prepared to enter kindergarten.

The Ohio Governor’s Imagination Library wants to start a new chapter in early childhood literacy throughout Ohio by providing families with books. With the goal of preparing students entering Kindergarten for success in the classroom, the Imagination Library program will send a customized book to your child each month from birth until age five. Sign up is easy and FREE! Give your Panther the gift of reading & enroll today.

schoolSAFEid

Parents and guardians will need an ID with them at all times when coming to the school building. You will need this to sign your child in and out of school at the main office. This is also needed for volunteers and those coming for any type of meeting.

More than a Meal

Do you need assistance with payment of school meals or school fees? Now you can apply on-line for your children to receive free or reduced price school meals. Your application will be sent from a secure web site directly to Little Miami Schools so you don’t need to worry about filling out a paper form that could be lost or misplaced. Login to Payschoolscentral.com and apply to see if you are eligible.

Please send all preschool transportation changes to Brandi Oditt, boditt@lmsdoh.org. Please send all kindergarten and first grade transportation changes to the office: ecoffice@lmsdoh.org. For all school correspondence, please include student’s full name, teacher name and full name of person picking up. Please make sure the person picking up your student has their ID. This will help us be more efficient with our arrival and dismissal process. AM students must notify us any change by 10:30am, PM and first grade students must notify us of any change by 2:00pm

Absences

Please report your child’s absence (PK, K, and 1st) daily by calling 513-899-5200 or emailing lfisher@lmsdoh.org. First graders and AM Kindergartners and Preschoolers should be called in by 10:05 and PM Kindergartners and Preschoolers should be called in by 1:40. Please leave your student’s full name and the reason for the absence.

School Fees

School Fees for Preschool are $75.00. School Fees for Kindergarten are $27.00. School Fees for First Grade are $47.00. Fees can be paid by cash or check at the school or you can you use the link below to pay with a credit card at PaySchools. https://www.payschoolscentral.com/

*Anytime you are sending money with your child to school, make sure it is in an envelope with the student name and what it is for (school, lunch, etc.)