EVENTS & ACTIVITES

Urban Child Academy recognizes that families are the primary educators of our children. Therefore, one of our main missions is to include our families in our daily activities at every opportunity. We also work hard to share our curriculum goals with you and your family so that you can help us achieve our educational goals from year to year. The school blog is maintained in order to share as many of our exciting daily events as possible in real time. In addition, our private student web pages are designed to give families up-to-date information on their child.

Our teachers hold collaborative curriculum meetings. In those meetings, they review and share their extensive classroom observations in order to plan lessons tailored to their individual students, all centered around a school-wide investigation. These investigations are born out of our collective observations of our students' daily curiosities. We keep in mind your child's oral language skills and literacy development while creating lesson plans. For example, students and teachers might label the earth boxes in our teaching garden with the words soil, flower, and worms! Children in our Pre-K classroom have daily opportunities to record their thoughts as letter strings, pictures and words in a journal. All of this information is maintained as a teaching record in the classroom portfolios as well as student portfolios which serve not only as excellent educational records but also as cherished childhood mementos of our students' formative years.

Download the 2017-2018 Academic Calendar

Academic Calendar
2023
Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples' Day	Monday, October 09 UCA is closed in observance of Columbus & Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Parent Teacher Conferences	Friday, November 03 UCA closes @ 12:30pm for Parent/Teacher Conferences.
Thanksgiving Break	Wednesday, November 22 UCA closes @ 12:30pm for Thanksgiving Break.
Thanksgiving Break	Thursday, November 23 UCA is closed on Thursday, November 23rd & Friday, November 24th for Thanksgiving.
Winter Break	Monday, December 25 UCA is closed Monday, December 25 - Monday, January 1, 2024
2024
Spring Term Begins	Tuesday, January 02 First day of our Spring 2024 term!
Martin Luther King Holiday	Monday, January 15 UCA is closed
President's Day Holiday	Monday, February 19 UCA is closed
Teacher In-Service	Friday, March 08 UCA closes at 12:30pm.  Lunch will be served.
Spring Break	Monday, April 01 UCA is closed Monday, April 1 - Friday, April 5.
Parent/Teacher Conferences	Friday, May 03 UCA closes at 12:30pm. Lunch will be served.
Teacher In-Service	Friday, May 24 UCA closes at 12:30pm.  Lunch will be served.
Memorial Day	Monday, May 27 UCA is closed.

 

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