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
| 2023 |
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| Popsicle's for Pops! |
Friday, June 16
4pm - 5pm @ Washington Square Park (weather permitting) |
| Juneteenth |
Monday, June 19
UCA is closed |
| Independence Holiday |
Monday, July 03
UCA is closed on Monday, July 3rd & Tuesday, July 4th in observance of Independence Day. |
| Teacher In-Service |
Thursday, August 31
UCA is closed |
| Labor Day Holiday |
Friday, September 01
UCA is closed on Friday, September 1st & Monday, September 4th in observance of Labor Day. |
| Fall Term Begins |
Tuesday, September 05
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| Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples' Day |
Monday, October 09
UCA is closed in observance of Columbus & Indigenous Peoples' Day. |
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