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 22nd 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/Child Field & Track for MS. KATYA’S & MS. CHELSEA’S CLASS.
Parent / Child Field & Track
Will take place on Thursday May 22nd here at Big Chief at 1:00. 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 6 FRIDAYS LEFT FOR MAY AND JUNE, PLEASE SEND IN YOUR $22.00
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 23rd and Monday, May 26th for Memorial Day. The last day of school is Friday June 13th.
Day Care
We will be open for daycare on Monday June 16th, to Wednesday June 18th, and Monday June 23rd to Wednesday June 25th. Please email bigchiefschcamp@optimum.net to register for those 6 days. Hours for daycare are 8am to 4:00pm only, it will be $15.00 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 2025-2026. If you have not yet registered your child, the time to do so is now!
Program:
MISS YOLANDA’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, Jack be nimble and Head shoulders knees and toes.
Language Arts: Reading books, such as “Springtime,” and “Are you, my mother?” and Corduroy.
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 art 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,” “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” and “A color of his own.”
Art: Making our gifts for Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, working on dictation. Easel painting under the Wisteria tree and starting “A color of his own” storybook.
Science: Enjoying the weather changes and visiting the garden and feeding the animals.
Music: Listening and following instructions to music “Bop till you, drop,” and “Listen and Move.” Dancing with scarves and instruments.
Physical: Running outside and chasing bubbles, using our scarves in the wind, and playing in the cozy coups.
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 PATRICIA’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 and sponge 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 and Hydrangea 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: Continue with the sea, 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 18th 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, continue our zoo unit, 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. 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: Going on a zoo walk and visiting all of our animals. 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. We will be making pancakes and fruit salad.
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: Looking for signs of spring, 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: Marching band, 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. Also reading Curious George books.
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 18th 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 & MISS CHELSEA’S CLASS
Theme: Continuing with Spring, prehistoric time, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, planting, and insects including ants, bees, and ladybugs.
Science: Experiments relating to spring, homemade rain. Observing new changes outside. Signs of spring. Spring sounds, weather changes. Making a volcano and watch it erupt.
Art: Working on painting a dinosaur landscape, making dinosaur skeletons and necklaces. Making bees and a beehive, ladybugs, and ants. 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: We will be making Ants on a log and ladybug cupcakes. Continue working on our phone numbers and addresses. Making Mother’s Day cookies.
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,” and “The grouchy ladybug.” Also reading Eric Carl series.
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 and games.
Math: Reinforcing our math skills we learned. Graphing, addition, subtraction, and number at the concept level.
Special Events for Ms. Katya & Ms. Chelsea’s Class.
Mother’s Day tea- May 9th 2:00-3:00
Father’s Day Bird Houses – June 6th 2:00-3:00
Parent / Child Field & Track
Will take place on Thursday May 22nd here at Big Chief at 1:00. 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.