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
| 2021 |
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| President's Day Holiday |
Monday, February 15
UCA is closed |
| Teacher In-Service |
Friday, March 05
UCA closes at 12:30pm (lunch will be served) |
| Spring Break |
Monday, March 29
UCA will be closed Monday, March 29th through Friday, April 2nd. |
| Parent Teacher Conferences |
Friday, April 30
UCA closes at 12:30pm (lunch will be served) |
| Teacher In-Service |
Thursday, May 27
UCA closes at 12:30pm (lunch will be served) |
| Memorial Day |
Friday, May 28
UCA is closed Friday, May 28th & Monday, May 31st in observance of Memorial Day. |
| Memorial Day |
Monday, May 31
UCA is closed Friday, May 28th & Monday, May 31st in observance of Memorial Day. |
| Summer Term Begins |
Tuesday, June 01
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| Independence Holiday |
Friday, July 02
UCA is closed on Friday, July 2nd & Monday, July 5th in observance of Independence Day. |
| Teacher In-Service |
Thursday, September 02
UCA is closed |
| Labor Day Holiday |
Friday, September 03
UCA is closed on Friday, September 3rd & Monday, September 6th in observance of Labor Day. |
| Labor Day Holiday |
Monday, September 06
UCA is closed in observance of Labor Day. |
| Fall Term Begins |
Tuesday, September 07
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| Columbus Day Holiday |
Monday, October 11
UCA is closed in observance of Columbus Day. |
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