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
2024
Parent/Teacher Orientation	Tuesday, August 27 Parent/Teacher Orientation will be from 5:30 - 6:30pm.
Teacher In-Service	Friday, August 30 UCA is closed
Labor Day Holiday	Monday, September 02 UCA is closed
Fall Term Begins	Tuesday, September 03
Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples' Day	Monday, October 14 UCA is closed in observance of Columbus & Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Halloween Party & Parade	Friday, October 25 Classroom party- 4:00pm to 4:15pm Trick or Treat Parade- 4:15pm to 5:00pm (Washington Square Park) *weather permitting*
Parent Teacher Conferences	Friday, November 01 UCA closes @ 12:30pm for Parent/Teacher Conferences.
UCA closes @ 12:30pm for Thanksgiving Break!	Wednesday, November 27 Lunch will be served.
Thanksgiving Break	Thursday, November 28 UCA is closed on Thursday, November 28rd & Friday, November 29th for Thanksgiving.
Winter Break	Monday, December 23 UCA is closed Monday, December 23 - Wednesday, January 1, 2025
2025
Spring Term Begins	Thursday, January 02 First day of our Spring 2025 term!
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 07 UCA closes at 12:30pm.  Lunch will be served.
Spring Break	Monday, March 24 UCA is closed Monday, March 24 - Friday, March 28.

 

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