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Building Igloos!

Let’s build an igloo! Whether it’s for reading or playing… our children built igloos based on the book, “The Three Snow Bears” by Jan Brett.

It’s Time to Register for Kindergarten 2021-2022!

The Stamford Public School District is encouraging families with students entering kindergarten during the 2021-2022 school year to register early! If you live in Stamford and have a child who will be five years old on or before January 1, 2022, they are eligible to...

Thank You to KPMG!

Thank you to KPMG for donating a gift certificate that allowed us to purchase books with messages supporting diversity and inclusion from First Book! The children are really enjoying story time!

Play to Learn: Lacing Mittens

It’s a great day to make lacing mittens out of paper! This fun and simple activity is included in our Play to Learn Book! Check the photo below for materials and instructions.

At-Home Science Experiment to Engage the 5 Senses!

Supplies: Baby oil, glitter, pompoms, food coloring, mini colorful rubber bands, mini shells, tiny fish, dolphin and shark figurines, water absorbing beads, water. Ocean in a Bottle Drop small shells, fish or other small ocean animal figurines into the bottle. Pour in...

CLC Temporarily Moving to Full Remote Learning

As we prepare for our regularly scheduled winter break, we are mindful of the rising COVID-19 cases in Stamford and the surrounding communities. As always, our goal is to continue to provide a safe and healthy environment for our children and staff. Recent local...

Learning How to Mail a Letter from the Post Office

While learning about how the post office and mail carriers help our community, students worked on writing letters home! They addressed them and sent them out. Now they are waiting to receive them at home. This gives students hands on experience with how a piece of...

CLC Honored with 2020 Bank of America Neighborhood Builders Award

CLC has been honored with the 2020 Bank of America Neighborhood Builders® Award for Southern Connecticut. As an awardee, CLC will receive a $200,000 grant, a year of leadership training for CEO, Marc Jaffe and Head Start/Early Head Start Director, Marsha Guthrie who...

CLC Accepts Best Friend to Children Award for Light A Fire 2020

CLC’s CEO, Marc Jaffe accepted the award for Best Friend to Children at Moffly Media’s virtual Light A Fire Awards Ceremony on Thursday, December 3. Earlier this year, during 8 critical weeks of the pandemic, our team of heroes provided reliable and safe childcare to...

Recreating “Where the Wild Things Are”

In their Author Study of Maurice Sendak, students recreated the story, “Where the Wild Things Are.” This class created the environment by making Max’s boat, painting the background and making the characters in the story. Students acted out the story and while...

Learning About Transportation!

Our students are learning about transportation! They built a train, a railroad crossing and a train station to go along with stories on different types of transportation.

In the News: CLC Named Best Friend to Children by Moffly Media

We are honored to be named the Best Friend to Children by Moffly Media from Light a Fire 2020 for our Project 26 work. For 8 weeks during the COVID-19 pandemic, we provided reliable and safe childcare to the children of healthcare workers without any children or staff...