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
2019
Thanksgiving Break	Wednesday, November 27 UCA closes at 12:30pm (half day) on Thursday, November 27 UCA is closed Thursday, November 28 - Friday, November 29
UCA Spirit Week	Monday, December 02 Dec 2 - Dec 6
Winter Break	Monday, December 23 UCA is closed Monday, December 23 - Wednesday, January 1
2020
Spring Term Begins	Thursday, January 02
Martin Luther King Holiday	Monday, January 20 UCA is closed
President's Day Holiday	Monday, February 17 UCA is closed
Teacher In-Service	Friday, March 06 UCA closes at 12:30pm (half day)
Spring Break	Monday, April 06 UCA is closed Monday, April 6 - Friday, April 10
Parent/Teacher Conferences	Friday, May 01 UCA closes at 12:30pm (half day)
Teacher In-Service	Thursday, May 21 UCA closes at 12:30pm (half day)
Memorial Day Weekend	Friday, May 22 UCA is closed Friday, May 22 - Monday, May 25
Summer Term Begins	Tuesday, May 26
Fourth of July Holiday	Thursday, July 02 UCA is closed Thursday, July 2 - Friday, July 3
Teacher In-Service	Friday, September 04 UCA is closed
Labor Day Weekend	Monday, September 07 UCA is closed
Fall Term Begins	Tuesday, September 08

 

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