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
| 2018 |
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| Teacher In-Service Day |
Friday, August 31
UCA is closed |
| Labor Day Holiday |
Monday, September 03
UCA is closed |
| Fall Term Begins |
Tuesday, September 04
|
| Columbus Day |
Monday, October 08
UCA is closed |
| Parent/Teacher Conferences |
Friday, November 09
UCA closes at 12:30pm (half day) |
| Thanksgiving Holiday Break |
Wednesday, November 21
UCA closes at 12:30pm (half day) |
| Thanksgiving Holiday Break |
Thursday, November 22
UCA is closed Thursday, November 22- Friday, November 23 |
| 2019 |
|---|
| Spring Term Begins |
Wednesday, January 02
|
| Martin Luther King Holiday |
Monday, January 21
UCA is closed |
| Presidents's Day Holiday |
Monday, February 18
UCA is closed |
| Teacher In-Service |
Friday, March 08
UCA closes at 12:30pm (half day) |
| Spring Break |
Monday, April 15
UCA is closed Monday, April 15 - Friday, April 19 |
| Parent/Teacher Conferences |
Friday, May 03
UCA closes at 12:30pm (half day) |
| Memorial Day Holiday |
Friday, May 24
UCA is closed Friday, May 24 - Monday, May 27 |
| Summer Term Begins |
Tuesday, May 28
|
| Teacher In-Service |
Friday, June 07
UCA closes at 12:30pm (half day) |
| Independence Day Holiday |
Thursday, July 04
UCA is closed Thursday, July 4 - Friday, July 5 |
| Teacher In-Service |
Friday, August 30
UCA is closed |
| Labor Day Holiday |
Monday, September 02
UCA is closed |
| Fall Term Begins |
Tuesday, September 03
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