News & Stories
Classroom News & Stories. This is your chance to read all about it!
We feature everything from lessons to special activities, crafts, games, special guests, generous gifts and more at all of our Stamford locations!
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...
Thank You to Edgehill for the Beautiful Hats!
Our students were thrilled to receive beautiful knit hats from the residents at Edgehill. Thank you for your generosity!
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...
Thank You to PepsiCo Finance Controls for Your Generous Book Donation!
A big THANK YOU to PepsiCo Finance Control for a generous book donation. Our students are enjoying the new stories very much! In this photo, the teacher is reading “Hair Love" by Matthew A. Cherry.
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 Classroom: Author Study
Our students did an author study on Maurice Sandak, complete with lots of reading and projects!
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...
In the Classroom: Learning About Community
Students are learning about what a community is and all the people who make it cleaner, safer and better! Each child is taking on a different role in the classroom community. The dramatic play area has become a doctor's office, the block area is now a construction...