Avenues New York Explorers

Grades 2-3

In Grades 2–3, students continue to expand their knowledge, applying what they’ve learned in increasingly complex and meaningful ways. Collaboration, creativity, and exploration are central as they strengthen academic skills, deepen friendships, and develop their individual interests. Through hands-on projects and real-world connections, students build confidence, independence, and a strong sense of personal responsibility in their learning.

Specialty Classes begin directly after school and run until 4:30 p.m. (Extended care is available until 5:15 p.m. for an additional cost.)
Stay & Play, our after-care program, begins directly after school and runs until 5:15 p.m.
All classes include healthy snacks.

Registration is for the Fall season. To explore class options, please review the schedule below and use the drop-down menu for full details. Space is limited, and waitlists will be opened as programs reach capacity. All classes require a minimum number of students to run.

Important Dates – Fall 2025

Registration for the Fall season opens Wednesday, June 4, at noon!
Stay & Play: September 3 – December 19
All other programs: September 8 – December 19

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Ready to register? Select your student’s 2025–2026 grade level and click the green button below.

Program	Action
Grades 2-3 Class Registration	Register here
LD Stay and Play Registration	Register here

Want to learn more? Click on the class titles below for a drop-down description.

Monday

Robotics and Engineering

Our engineering & robotics students will be constantly building, designing, and problem-solving using any materials they can get their hands on. Building challenges will bring structural engineering & physics concepts like friction or weight distribution into focus, while robotics projects will call for the mastery of mechanical engineering concepts like circuitry or conductivity. Examples of topics that we will cover include - Hardware: Outputs & Robotic Computing Board, Data: Inputs and sensors, Software: Robot Programming.

Chess Tactics (Grades 1-3)

Tactics are an integral part of chess and occur throughout all phases of the game. This dynamic class focuses on common tactics such as Pins, Forks, Skewers, Double Attacks, Deflections, Discovered Checks, and Mating attacks. Each week we prepare a variety of puzzles and chess brainteasers, so students at all playing levels will be challenged and engaged. This class encourages imaginative chess play, and is ideal for a student who has mastered piece movement and the basic rules, may have tournament experience, and who enjoys working on puzzles and exercising creativity.

Tuesday

Creative Film Making

Lights, camera, action! Students can become a Director, Actor, Cinematographer, and/or an Editor during this class. Utilizing professional equipment and technology, students will work together and learn how to use cameras, audio equipment, and editing software; all the while creating completely original video projects and movies. We will also build props, combine claymation and live-action video, experiment with the potential of green screens, practice various camera tricks, utilize stock videos, video filters, and much more!

Pickleball

Students develop the key skills and knowledge needed to enjoy America’s fastest-growing sport. Each session focuses on serving, “dinking,” and forehand and backhand strokes, with an emphasis on learning how to play and score a competitive match. Through interactive games and drills, students build confidence while practicing sportsmanship, teamwork, and individual effort—all in a fun and supportive environment.

Wednesday

Coding and Computing

Every activity in this course is designed to help students build fundamental coding skills. They give each young inventor an opportunity to strengthen their logical thinking, develop their troubleshooting skills, and become resilient to the challenges that always come with using any new technology or tool. Almost all of our activities task students with programming physical devices (circuit boards, robotics kits, motors, sensors, etc.) that serve not only as an important visual learning tool but also as an additional avenue for creativity and engagement. Examples of topics that we will cover include: Advanced physical computing, fundamentals of syntax, and input & output conditional coding.

Thursday

Junior Investors: Bulls & Bears

Learn how you can start investing at a young age in this fully interactive program! Build your own $100,000 stock portfolio and trade stocks like Apple, Nike, or Amazon with a cool investing simulation tool. This innovative experience empowers students with the tools and mindset to face future investment decisions with confidence and buy low, sell high! A solid foundation for a successful future for investors!

Parkour

In this dynamic movement class, students continue to build strength, coordination, and confidence through obstacles and movement games. They refine safe and efficient movement patterns while developing self-regulation, problem-solving, and social skills—all while having fun and making new friends. Progressions are carefully scaled to each child’s age and skill level, with partner activities and group games fostering a strong sense of community.

Friday

Painting and Drawing (Grades 1-3)

Explore a range of classic painting methods in this fun twist on traditional art techniques. Each week, we'll delve into a variety of mediums, such as charcoal, watercolors, colored pencils, acrylics, gouache, and more. Ideal for children eager to expand their knowledge of drawing and painting, this unique class will focus on traditional, and non-traditional, techniques, getting inspiration from old masters and contemporary artists such as Jim Dine, Hilma af Klint, Keith Haring and many more.

Innovation Lab

Calling all inventors, tinkerers and out-of-the-box thinkers! In our Innovation Lab we will be fostering the inventive and imaginative thinking that produces remarkable engineers, inventors, and other movers and shakers. We will reinvent and redesign familiar objects and simple machines (think wheels, cars, rollercoasters, shoes, and mechanical arms) while learning the basics of design, mechanical engineering, modelling the spaces and volumes that contain the human body, developing empathy as a designer, and exploring new fields and interests. We will build and create hands-on projects in every class.

Program	Action
Grades 2-3 Class Registration	Register here
LD Stay and Play Registration	Register here