Starting Points Child Care

Starting Points Child Care
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Gold Sneaker Initiative
"Improving the lives of children, families and providers one gold footprint at a time."

Starting Points is now a Gold Sneaker Facility. The Gold Sneaker Initiative was developed to enhance policies related to physical activity and nutrition. For more information visit the following website.

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Ratios/Child Promotion

Starting Points promotes children to the next class according to the developmental ability of each child and available space. Children will have a period of visitation (the amount of visitation time depends on the individual child). Children will visit their new class off and on for approximately one month. This gives children a chance to become familiar with the new teacher, children, and classroom before their formal move.

Starting Points does not combine classroom in the mornings and afternoons. Every child starts the day and ends the day with the same class. This gives the children a feeling of security, knowing where they will be at all times. In case of an emergency, if a teacher must leave(due to illness) and another teacher is not available, classes may be combined as long as ratios are always met. Classroom sizes are limited to one group per classroom except for the school age room.

Group	Ages	Ratios
Infants	6 weeks to 12 month olds	1:4
Toddlers	12 months to 24 month olds	1:5
Two's	24 months to 36 month olds	1:6
Three's	3 year olds	1:9
Four / Five's	4 and 5 year olds	1:12
School Age	Kindergarten to Fifth Grade	1:12-14