Infant and Toddler Daycare
Infants and Toddlers need a safe and healthy environment but above all they need to feel loved. Starting Points provides a loving, nurturing and stimulating environment that helps infants/toddlers with the important early development of the brain and lays a foundation for intellectual growth, emotional health and a positive self-image. The staff use music, reading and interactive play to help stimulate each child’s natural development. Bright and colorful books, toys and puppets encourage exploration and new challenges. The staff also encourage sign language as a way of communication until verbal communication skills are developed.
Starting Points uses the Tennessee Early Learning Development Standards to prepare engaging lesson plans. These standards form a framework that allows even the youngest child to develop to their fullest potential.
1. Approaches to Learning
Teachers provide hands-on age appropriate activities, toys, and interactions that support each child’s learning style. This not only helps with healthy brain development but also lets children approach learning with anticipation and excitement.
2. Social/Emotional
Teachers provide a safe and secure learning environment in order for the children to feel secure in exploring their environment. Planned activities and interactions help the children begin to develop an idea of who they are and how they fit into their world. They also begin to understand their emotions which lay a foundation for self-regulation.
3. Language and Early Literacy
Teachers expose children to a language rich environment through conversations, books, music, and consistently respond to children’s early attempts at communication (crying, facial expressions, laughing, etc.).
4. Math
Teachers provide everyday hands-on experiences that allow young children to use their senses to classify, categorize, and sort information so that it has meaning to them.
5. Science
Teachers provide many sensory experiences (taste, touch, smell, looking, and listening) to foster children’s natural inclinations to learn about their world.
6. Social Studies
Teachers develop a relationship with the children so the children feel comfortable exploring their environment. Children trust their teacher will keep them safe when experiencing the unfamiliar.
7. Creative Arts
Teachers provide fun activities that allow the children to express their ideas, feeling, and interests through art, music, dance, and dress up/role play (toddlers).
8. Physical Development
Teachers provide a safe and healthy environment in which children can move and explore. They also provide opportunities for practice with manipulating small objects (puzzles, blocks, crayons, etc.).
Celebrating Over 20 years
There are no words to adequately express my gratitude for this daycare/preschool. They have loved and cared for my children beyond any expectation I had.
A wonderful place to work where the staff really cares about the children and the quality of care they are given. It was the best job ever!
The school is so great! Nature, science, reading, writing centers and so many wonderful ways to learn around every corner. The teachers are just so amazing and wonderful with the children. My son has been in Miss Lynn’s class (go Mighty Moths) for little over a year now. He just turned 5 and has been writing and beginning to read for months now. He has learned so much educationally but also socially. So so happy he goes to Starting Points!
“I visited the daycare center a few months ago and was thoroughly impressed with how nice the place was. I was even informed they have preschool programs as well. I would definitely enroll my children. I recommend to have a visit of your own!”
Primary Communities Served
Ball Camp
Bearden
Beaumont
Cedar Bluff
Concord
Farragut
Fountain City
Hardin Valley
Karns
Knoxville
Lonsdale
North Hills
North Knoxville
Norwood
Powell
Ramsey
Ridge Brook
Ridgedale
Seymour
Solway
South Knoxville
Topside
West Hills
Western Heights