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.

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Academic Calendar
2021
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
Columbus Day Holiday	Monday, October 11 UCA is closed in observance of Columbus Day.
Parent Teacher Conferences	Friday, November 05 UCA closes @ 12:30pm for Parent/Teacher Conferences.
Thanksgiving Break	Wednesday, November 24 UCA closes @ 12:30pm for Thanksgiving Break.
Thanksgiving Break	Thursday, November 25 UCA is closed on Thursday, November 24th & Friday, November 25th for Thanksgiving.
Winter Break	Thursday, December 23 UCA is closed Thursday, December 23 - Friday, December 31, 2021
2022
Spring Term Begins	Monday, January 03
Martin Luther King Holiday	Monday, January 17 UCA is closed
President's Day Holiday	Monday, February 21 UCA is closed
Teacher In-Service	Friday, March 04 UCA closes at 12:30pm.
Spring Break	Monday, April 11 UCA is closed Monday, April 11 - Friday, April 15.
Parent/Teacher Conferences	Friday, May 13 UCA closes at 12:30pm.
Teacher In-Service	Thursday, May 26 UCA closes at 12:30pm.
Memorial Day	Friday, May 27 UCA is closed Friday, May 27th & Monday, May 30th in observance of Memorial Day.
Summer Term Begins	Tuesday, May 31 Summer Term Begins.

 

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