Avenues New York Explorers

Kindergarten

In Kindergarten, students’ curiosity deepens as they make meaningful connections between what they’re learning and the world around them. With active imaginations and growing problem-solving skills, they engage in more structured experiences that continue to nurture their creativity, independence, and holistic development.

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!
All Kindergarten programs begin on the first full day of school and run through 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
Kindergarten Class Registration	Register here
ELC Stay and Play Registration	Register here

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

Monday

Karate

Kick, block, and strike with confidence! In this fun, high-energy program, students build strength, coordination, and focus while learning the fundamentals of martial arts. Through a step-by-step progression system, students earn colored belts and stripes that celebrate their growth, discipline, and achievements — all while having a great time. Hi-yah!

Art Explorers

In Art Explorers, young artists discover inspiration through the work of both classic and contemporary masters. Students experiment with a wide range of materials and techniques—including watercolor, tempera, printmaking, drawing, collage, papier-mâché, air-dry clay, and more. Each project is designed to support fine motor development, creative thinking, and artistic confidence, while allowing children to express themselves in a fun, supportive environment.

Tuesday

Parkour

In this dynamic movement class, students build strength, coordination, and confidence through small obstacles and movement games. They learn 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.

Wednesday

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 and 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. This course will foster students’ inquisitiveness through constant exposure to new materials and new tools, whether it’s practicing dynamic taping techniques, or learning how to use a power drill.

Thursday

Chess

Whether your child is a beginner or has already learned the basics of chess, these interactive classes led by Growing Minds will enhance your child’s focus, foster problem-solving and critical thinking and teach the fundamentals of the game. These classes will solidify basic chess rules, review piece movement, introduce chess notation and coordinates, help students learn how to build and execute a plan for different parts of the game and lay the foundation for long-term strategic gameplay. Our expert instructors will assess your child’s skill level, and provide the instruction necessary to build upon their existing skills so they are ready for more advanced classes, tournament play, or Chess Team.

Little Chefs

Little Chefs promotes, through playful and educational activities, the development of healthy habits, the pleasure of preparing meals, taking care of food, and respecting nature. Students will practice oven safety, listening and following directions, creativity, responsibility, teamwork, and measuring. All recipes are allergen-free.

Friday

Soccer

Our youth soccer program offers a fun, positive, and non-competitive environment where children will learn the fundamentals of soccer. Our coaches use positive reinforcement to teach skills while building confidence. The focal point for this age group is for children to be comfortable with the ball by further developing soccer skills such as dribbling, shooting, and the introduction of passing. Classes include partner activities to promote sharing, listening, respect, and cooperation. Physical activities include dynamic exercises like moving at a pace, changing directions, and lateral agility. These classes will start with a warm-up, continue with skill building, and end with a small-sided scrimmage match.

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
Kindergarten Class Registration	Register here
ELC Stay and Play Registration	Register here