Fun and learning ahead at St John Lutheran Extended Care! St John Lutheran Extended Care is an early care and education provider in Denver that welcomes students and families to a center-based facility. As a center, St John Lutheran Extended Care provides an environment that’s geared towards stability, structure and providing learning resources and opportunities for children to explore the sights and sounds of the world around them. Children will meet and form bonds with peers of like ages and benefit from quality instructions from experienced adults. St John Lutheran Extended Care’s part-time schedule additionally gives Denver parents exactly what they may be looking for - the flexibility to work and take care of household responsibilities but the ability to still spend as much time as possible with their child. Children are able to form bonds, make friends and learn the joys of collaboration at St John Lutheran Extended Care with the time that they’ll be with each other, but still benefit from time outside of their structured setting to grow every day. Students at St John Lutheran Extended Care will also experience a nature-focused, outdoors-oriented learning approach that emphasizes an early and often connection to the environment and natural world. Learning approaches like this embrace the role that active, outside play can take in shaping independence, appropriate risk-taking, and creative self-expression for children. The outdoors can be a place of joy and wonder in childhood, and stimulating that wonder in children can have positive lifelong benefits and be a boon for physical and emotional health.