Tuition
All bills, without exception, must be paid in full by May 1st. This is your FINAL school payment.
In School Parent-Teacher Conferences
Parent Teacher conferences will be on Thursday May 23rd between 6:00 -9:00 at Big Chief. We will close at 5pm sharp. You will receive an invite from Big Chief. Please click on a time that works for you and fill in your name. Your child’s teacher will accept you at your scheduled time. If you prefer a phone conference, please be sure to include your phone number and name and we will call at the time you signed up for. This will be the only time we will be doing P/T conf. there will be no special requests for a different day. Please Park at St. Raphael’s parking lot walk around and go directly to your child’s class. We will only be allowing two families in at a time, the scheduled parent and the parent that is next in line. All other parents will need to wait outside. The assistant teacher will call you in when it is your turn.
Thank you.
*Parent/Teacher Field & Track for MS. KATYA’S CLASS.
Parent / Teacher Field & Track
Will take place on Thursday May 23rd here at Big Chief at 10:00am. Please wear comfortable clothes and sneakers. (PARENTS ONLY NO SIBLINGS). Please remember to park at St. Raphael’s church parking lot. Thank you.
*Note- If your child does not attend that day, please call to make arrangements to bring your child in.
REMINDER: WE WILL CONTINUE WITH PIZZA FRIDAY’S FOR MAY AND JUNE!!! THERE ARE 5 FRIDAYS LEFT FOR MAY AND JUNE, PLEASE SEND IN YOUR $15.00.
IMPORTANT NOTE: YOUR CHILDS WINTER CLOTHES WILL BE GOING HOME, PLEASE SEND IN A T-SHIRT AND SHORTS WHEN WE RETURN ON 5/1 FOR A REPLACEMENT.
PLEASE REMEMBER – NO SANDALS FOR CHILDREN – TIED SHOES OR SNEAKERS (Velcro ok) ONLY PLEASE. ALSO, NO MORE JACKETS, WE WILL BE USING THE BIG CHIEF SWEATSHIRTS. IF YOU DID NOT LEAVE IT HERE, PLEASE SEND IT IN AT THIS POINT, OR SEND IN ONE OF THEIR OWN SWEATSHIRTS TO STAY HERE.
School Closings
Big Chief will be closed on Friday May 24th and Monday, May 27th for Memorial Day. The last day of school is Thursday June 13th.
Day Care
We will be open for daycare on Wednesday June 19th, Thursday June 20th, and Friday June 21st. Please email bigchiefschcamp@optimum.net to register for those 3 days. Hours for daycare are 8am to 4:00pm, It will be $12.50 an hour for one child and $22.00 an hour for two children. Remember you will have to pack a nut free lunch, and 2 fruits for the day and a sheet and blanket for the ones to rest.
Summer Registration (6 wks. – 13 yrs.)
Summer is almost here; programs are closing out. If you need any information, or would like a registration form, please call the office at 781-3900.
Half Day 9-1 2 yr. olds thru 1st grade
Midi day 10:30-3:00 2 years thru 1st grade
Full Day 9-4 infant thru 13 years
Extended hours 7:30 -5:15/5:30
2, 3 or 5 days per week, 4, 6, or 8 weeks.
Nursery School Registration
Classes are closing for September 2024-2025. If you have not yet registered your child, the time to do so is now!
Program:
MISS JEANNINE’S CLASS:
Theme: Talking about spring, planting vegetables, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and continuing our nursery rhymes such as Wheels on the bus and Jack be nimble.
Language Arts: Reading books, such as “Springtime,” and “Are you, my mother?”
Science: Learning about nature. Planting string beans and picking strawberries from our garden. Looking for birds, flowers, and butterflies.
Art: Painting our spring mural using all different ant forms, painting our buses and candlesticks.
Physical: Going outside to ride the cars and blowing bubbles, and running in the field.
Music: Dancing, exercise, creative movement and using musical instruments.
Theme: Spring and Summer. Family holidays like Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.
Independent Skills: Blowing our noses by ourself, washing our hands and face by ourself and continuing to use open cups and assisting our friends whenever they need help. Working on cooperative play over parallel.
Language Arts: Reading stories, such as “The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Hungry Bear,” “Little Cloud,” “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” “Are You, My Mother?” and “Spot Goes to the Beach,” and “Where’s Spot?”
Art: Making our gifts for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. Making “press paint” butterflies and starting “A color of his own” book.
Science: Enjoying the weather changes and visiting the garden and feeding the animals.
Music: Listening and following instructions to music “Bop till you, drop.” Dancing with scarves and instruments.
Physical: Running outside and chasing bubbles, using our scarves in the wind, and playing in the cars.
MISS ALEXANDRIA’S CLASS:
Theme: Continue with spring into summer and farm animals. Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.
Social and Independent Skills: Talking with our friends as we play. Continuing to put on our jackets using the “flip” then un-zippering and taking off our jackets. Asking for a tissue to wipe our nose. Continue washing hands and drying with a paper towel. Lining up and listening to instructions about the playground. Continue practicing using a cup.
Language Arts: Reading stories, such as “The Red Ripe Strawberry and The Hungry Bear,” “Are You, My Mother?” and “Spot Goes to the Beach,” and “Where’s Spot?”
Art: Exploring creative art as we sponge paint and easel paint. Making Mother’s Day and Father’s Day surprises. Easel painting outside. Sponge painting a butterfly. Painting Tulips and Daffodils. Continue to make our barn animals.
Science: Go outside walking around watching the plants grow and visiting our animals.
Music: Listening and following instructions to music “Bop till you, drop.” Dancing with scarves and instruments. Continuing using our tunnel and bean bags.
Physical: Outdoor play running in the field with balls, bubbles, and parachute. Strengthening our small motor skills with connecting manipulatives and lacing. Practicing our large motor skills with pushing, pulling, and pedaling the Little Tykes cars.
MISS ELISA’S CLASS:
Theme: Continuing Spring and our spring book. Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day
Language Arts: “Baby Botanist,” “Backyard Bugs,” “The carrot seed,” “The hungry Caterpillar,” “Bugs Galore” “Are you, my mother?” “Just me and my dad,” “Mother’s Day,” and “Just me and my mommy.”
Art: Easel painting outside, spring collage, creating pastel colors, continue making our spring books, spring bulletin board, Mother’s Day, and Father’s Day, and continue using scissors.
Physical: Spending as much time as possible outdoors, we will be using the fields for bubbles, parachute play, kicking & throwing balls.
Science: Bug hunts, planting seeds and caring for them. Looking for flowers and leaves, picking strawberries and blackberries.
Math: Counting our friends while we line up, counting seeds as we plant them, continue making shapes with our blocks.
Cooking: Scrambles eggs.
MISS ANDREA’S CLASS:
Theme: Finishing up transportation, Farm/Farmer and what he grows. Farm equipment.Continue Spring, caterpillar and butterflies, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, planting
Language Arts: “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” “The Carrot Seed,” “Ten Little Ladybugs,” “Always I Love you,” “I Love My Mom,” “The Ten Best Things About My Dad,” and “I Love You Grandpa,” “Jack and the Beanstalk,” “In My Garden,”
Art: Spring Mural, butterfly, and insect projects, outside easel, sponge, and fly swatter painting, making caterpillars and butterflies; Mother’s Day and Father’s Day projects.
Math: Counting our seeds as we plant them and counting our seedlings as they grow.
Fingerplays: “I See Robins… Dig, Dig, Dig the Earth,” “Here is the Beehive, where are the Bees?”
Science: We will be going on nature walks to observe the changes that are occurring all around us. We will look at trees, grass, and plants. We will observe the Hosta Plants in our garden as they grow. We will search for worms, ants, caterpillars, butterflies, and other insects and observe them in our bug finders and then release them. We will look for bees and try to find a bee hive. We will try to catch butterflies with our nets and then release them. Planting and cultivating seedlings, watching the strawberries grow in our strawberry patch. Visit our ducks and chickens. Plant veggies in our garden.
Music: Creative Movement – dancing around like flowers in the wind. Fun with
Instruments. Pretending we are caterpillars turning into beautiful butterflies, the Bumble Bee Song.
Nursery Rhymes: “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary,” and “Little Miss Muffet.”
Physical: We will enhance our large motor skills for outdoor play, climbing, kicking, and throwing a ball. Parachute play and bicycles. Outside play including blowing bubbles, taking our baby dolls for a walk, and using the hula hoops.
House: Pretend we are going on a train and boat ride.
Cooking: Ocean Cup, Bee cupcakes and spinach Quesadilla.
MISS PATTI’S CLASS:
Theme: Mother’s Day, farms, orchards and farm produce and Father’s Day. Continue with the three Billy goats gruff.
Art: Practicing cutting, collage, painting outside on the easels. We will be re-telling and acting out their favorite stories. As we begin our farm theme the children will create farmer “Joe” and “Julia” creating planting fields and orchards. They will continue to practice their cutting skills… Making Mother and Father’s Day gifts and cards. The children will make farm produce for our bulletin board. Painting outside in different areas of Big Chief.
Block Area: Designing farms where farmers work using the trucks and tractors, children will be making food stands, fields, rows of orchards using a variety of shaped wooden blocks. Paper, scissors, and tape to create orange orchards, corn fields and signs for their food stands.
Housekeeping: The children will be turning the House Area into a Farm Stand where they can pretend to buy fruits and vegetables from the Farmer using a cash register, fake money, and shopping bags. Then the children will be using the trucks to pick up the fruits and vegetables to take them to the grocery store. The house area will then turn into a grocery store.
Cooking: Yummy!! Using the fruits and vegetables farmers produce to cook in our classrooms. For example: Making carrot muffins with carrots that are grown from the ground. Using fruit and add them to pancakes. Tasting different vegetables.
Science: Observing weather changes. Discussing what changes we are seeing outside A discussion about dirt and why it is so important to plants. Going outside and looking for worms and ants on our nature walk. Planting seeds and observing how they grow.
Music and Movement: Parachute play, riding bicycles, obstacle courses, scarves, and streamers; using hula-hoops, balance beams and tunnels.
Singing and playing outside using the parachute. Learning new fingerplays and songs.
Language Arts: Reading stories about, farm machines, “Growing Vegetables,” “Planting a Rainbow,” “The Little Red Hen” “The Carrot Seed,” etc.… Talking about the importance of fruits and vegetables in our diet. Non-fiction stories about farm vegetable and fruit produce.
Discussing and answering questions about the content of the stories. Taking a lot of dictation on the information we are learning. Reading Mother and Father’s Day books. Taking dictation about stories we share in circle time.
From May 15th to the 30th please send your child in with 1 vegetable for the AM snack and a fresh fruit for the PM snack. (NO BABY CARROTS).
MR. ANDREY’S CLASS:
Theme: Mother’s Day, farms, orchards and farm produce and Father’s Day.
Art: Practicing cutting, collage, painting outside on the easels. We will be re-telling and acting out their favorite stories. As we begin our farm theme the children will create farmer “Joe” and “Julia” creating planting fields and orchards. They will continue to practice their cutting skills… Making Mother and Father’s Day gifts and cards. The children will make farm produce for our bulletin board. Painting outside in different areas of Big Chief. Planting seeds.
Block Area: Designing farms where farmers work using the trucks and tractors, children will be making food stands, fields, rows of orchards using a variety of shaped wooden blocks. Paper, scissors, and tape to create orange orchards, corn fields and signs for their food stands.
Housekeeping: The children will be turning the House Area into a Farm Stand where they can pretend to buy fruits and vegetables from the Farmer using a cash register, fake money, and shopping bags. Then the children will be using the trucks to pick up the fruits and vegetables to take them to the grocery store. The house area will then turn into a grocery store.
Cooking: Yummy!! Using the fruits and vegetables farmers produce to cook in our classrooms. For example: Making carrot muffins with carrots that are grown from the ground. Using fruit and add them to pancakes. Blueberry, strawberry, and banana pancakes. We will also be making smoothies.
Science: Observing weather changes and making a weather chart. Discussing what changes we are seeing outside A discussion about dirt and why it is so important to plants. Going outside and looking for worms and ants on our nature walk. Planting seeds and observing how they grow.
Music and Movement: Parachute play, riding bicycles, obstacle courses, scarves, and streamers; using hula-hoops, balance beams and tunnels.
Singing and playing outside using the parachute, simple hopscotch with chalk, hula hoops, tricycles, tunnels, and obstacle courses. Learning new fingerplays and songs.
Language Arts: Reading stories about, farm machines, “Growing Vegetables,” “Planting a Rainbow,” “The Little Red Hen” “The Carrot Seed,” etc.… Talking about the importance of fruits and vegetables in our diet. Non-fiction stories about farm vegetable and fruit produce.
Discussing and answering questions about the content of the stories. Taking a lot of dictation on the information we are learning. Reading Mother and Father’s Day books. Taking dictation about stories we share in circle time.
From May 15th to the 30th please send your child in with 1 vegetable for the AM snack and a fresh fruit for the PM snack. (NO BABY CARROTS).
Pre-Kindergarten Program:
MISS KATYA CLASS
Theme: Spring, prehistoric time, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, planting, and insects including ants, bees, and ladybugs.
Science: Experiments relating to homemade rain. Observing new changes outside. Signs of spring. Spring sounds, weather changes. Making a volcano and watch it erupt.
Art: We will be easel painting outside. Dinosaur sponge, painting dinosaurs, skeletons and making dinosaur necklaces. Making bees, ladybugs, ants, and spiders. We will also be working on our Mother’s Day and Father’s Day surprise. We will have chalk and water painting fun outside.
House Area: Making dino oatmeal, tar cups, ants on a log and spider cupcakes. Continue working on our phone numbers and addresses.
Block Area: Create a tar mud pit and becoming paleontologists and searching for dinosaurs. Creating dinosaur skeletons using blocks. Making ant colonies and beehives using our blocks as well.
Language Arts: Reading books on dinosaurs. Books relating to spring, “The very hungry Caterpillar,” “The carrot seed,” “The very busy spider,” etc.
Pre-Reading: Our focus for the remaining weeks will be continuing letter recognition and letter formation, Capital, and lower case. Strengthening listening skills, listening comprehension.
Physical: We will be concentrating on large motor skills. Playing T-Ball, soccer, & basketball. Parachute play, games & races outside and tricycles.
Math: Reinforcing math skills we learned.
Parent / Teacher Field & Track
Will take place on Thursday May 23rd here at Big Chief at 10:00am. Please wear comfortable clothes and sneakers. (PARENTS ONLY NO SIBLINGS). Please remember to park at St. Raphael’s church parking lot. Thank you.
*Note- If your child does not attend that day, please call to make arrangements to bring your child in.