Knoxville Stepping Stones Early Learning Center
Stepping Stones Early Learning Center believes that every infant and child deserves the opportunity to experience a quality education in a safe and creative loving environment.
Enrollment
Stepping Stones Early Learning Center believes that a quality childcare center should be family-centered, representing cooperative efforts by parents and teachers to provide a stimulating learning environment. We enroll children 6 weeks to age 11.
Creative Curriculum
The Creative Curriculum is one of the best teaching strategies for early learning because it focuses on the development of the whole child. The benefits from this curriculum is that the early learners become free thinkers and open to learn new subjects. And it is all done through play.
Programs
Daycare, three-year-old preschool, community partner with Knoxville Community School District for four-year-old voluntary preschool.
About Us
Stepping Stones Early Learning Center keeps the child in mind when establishing goals and philosophy. Children have the right to safe, creative and enjoyable child care, just as parents have the right to quality, affordable and accessible child care arrangements. Our program has a child-centered curriculum, providing developmentally appropriate practices. Our philosophy promotes “the whole child”, by helping him/her develop and grow cognitively, socially, emotionally, physically and creatively through organized developmental activities.
Come Visit Us
Stepping Stones Early Learning Center believes that every infant and child deserve the opportunity to experience a quality education in a safe, creative and loving environment.
Our Daycare. Our Pre-School. Our Family. Our Community.
Welcome to Stepping Stones Early Learning Center—a place of imagination and creative learning that will soon become your child’s home-away-from-home.
Our childcare center is an extension of your child’s family and our staff and parents work together to provide the love and support needed for each child to reach his/her developmental milestones.
Creative Curriculum
Reading/Writing
Children develop literacy skills and an awareness of language long before they are able to read.
The earlier we teach children to master handwriting, the more likely they are to succeed in school.
Math/Science
Everyday experience construct a variety of fundamental strategies which allow children to develop the essential process skills for problem solving, reasoning, communicating, making connections and representing.
Science and technology are concepts that are naturally occurring in any classroom. Here at Stepping Stones, we provide those concepts through play and experiences.
Art
Dramatic play, art, music and movement can be especially effective at introducing a wide variety of experiences for children throughout the day while supporting standards for preschool.
Critical Thinking
The Creative Curriculum helps children with their confidence, creativity and lifelong critical thinking skills and promotes positive outcomes.
Purposeful play encourages discovery and exploration, supporting children’s academic growth. When children are learning through intentional play experiences, when they are exploring, investigating and discovering new interests and new ideas, they are continuing to find joy in learning, and laying the foundation for a lifetime of learning.
Choosing a childcare program is one of the most important and difficult decisions you will make, but know that here at Stepping Stones Early Learning Center, your child will be loved and cared for. Our staff plays such an important role because, for some children, we might be the most stable part of their life.