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
2018
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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