Feature from Director Dawn Hove
Please download the November 2025 Newsletter or see the newsletter below for more information.
UNO Child Care Center Happenings and Reminders:
Annual Food Drive ~ November 10-14, 2025. Our annual food drive has begun. We will be accepting monetary donations for Together Inc. Food Bank to help support families in need. This is our annual service-learning project to help needed families in the Omaha and surrounding area. This year we are setting a center wide goal of raising $500. If we reach our goal, the classrooms will have an Ice Cream Party for snack on Friday, November 21. Please bring in your monetary donations and place it in the tub located on the front desk counter. We thank you for your support. The food banks will be greatly appreciated.
Mark your calendars now for the Child Care Center’s Winter Program. The program will be on Saturday, December 13, 2025, at the Milo Bail Student Center’s Ballroom at 10:00 A.M. The children who participate in dance lessons with Stretch-N-Grow will also do a dance performance. Please have your child at the Milo Bail Student Center by 9:45 A.M. There will also be a special visitor, so bring your cameras. Hope to see you all there!
The children do play outside and will go for walks on campus both in the mornings and afternoons. The weather is starting to get cooler. Please make sure your child has a jacket, sweatshirt, or coat for outside play. In the morning, the temperatures have been in the 50’s. We do not have enough jackets/coats for every child. You can one here on your child’s hook. Please make sure to label it. If you know that you will be picking up early, please let Dawn, Monica or your child’s Lead Teacher know, so that your child can stay back if you pick up before 4 P.M.
Please let us know if your child(ren) will not be in attendance for the day. You can call the child care center at 402-554-3398 or email Dawn (dhove@unomaha.edu) or Monica (mdey@unomaha.edu) to let us know. This helps us with preparing meals and staffing for the day. Reminder that if your child has been diagnosed with an illness to please let us know. Depending on the type of illness, we may need to inform families of the illness. Thank you for your cooperation.
The UNO Child Care Center will be closed on Thursday and Friday, November 27 & 28, 2025, in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday. We will re-open on Monday, December 1, 2025, at 6:30 A.M. normal business hours. We hope that all our families have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and weekend.
The UNO Child Care Center closes promptly at 5:30 P.M. Please make sure you are picking up your child by 5:30 P.M. The staff thank you.
Fall Semester Holiday Closures
Thursday & Friday, November 27 & 28, 2025; Thanksgiving Holiday
Wednesday, December 24, 2025 through Sunday, January 4, 2026; Winter Shutdown
Calendar
| November | Aviation History Month |
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| 2 | Daylight Savings Ends |
| 4 | Election Day |
| 8 | National STEM Day |
| 10-14 | Annual Food Drive Together Inc. |
| 11 | Veterans Day |
| 26 | No UNO Classes, UNOCCC is open |
| 27-28 | Thanksgiving Break, UNOCCC is closed |
| December | Safe Toys and Gifts Month |
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| 4 | World Cookie Day |
| 13 | Winter/Holiday Program; MBSC 10 AM |
| 19 | Last Day of UNO Classes |
| 21 | Winter Solstice |
| 24 - January 4 | Winter Shutdown; CCC Closed |