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Who doesn’t love settling down with a good book?  Visit any LNS studio and you will see carefully curated shelves enticing the children sit and look, wonder, imagine and learn.  After lunch is over we invite the

Felt flowers, pipe cleaners, and popsicle sticks were offered for exploration. Hannah made a flower and then wrapped it around her wrist. Look! I made a flower on my arm! Ada worked on attaching pipe cleaners. So you have

Work created during Stay and Play is often taken home at the end of the day.  It may be folded and placed in backpacks but that creates creases.  Rolling the papers and placing in boots is

Once our clay pieces were dried and then fired in the kiln, we painted our designs with a black glaze. We concentrated on painting the glaze into the intricate grooves to highlight the patterns. Then we

Jonah- I was running at the pool and BOOM, I hurt my foot. I ran on the stone floor, bump, bump, bump OUCH!- Jonah bandages his own foot, carefully twisting and tying. He then announces, Oh Oh now

Over the past few weeks we have been enjoying using the bakery set up by Studio Yellow.  The food the children were making in the bakery began to be used for the animals in a different

Although, March has been so snowy and cold, April will soon be here and so will our LNS Gala!  The Extended Day children have been working with clay to create a surprise for the upcoming auction!

During the Extended Day program, the children have the opportunity to play with children from all four studios. It is wonderful to observe the  developing friendships! With the mixed age group, we observe children showing empathy