Extracurriculars

To see the fall 2025 schedule, please click here.

Visual and Creative Arts

Cool Crafting with Kit Demirdelen
Young artists will explore a modern twist on traditional crafts. Projects will include sewing, weaving, fiber, clay, and printing.

Fashion Lab with Future Fashion Stars
Children will design their own fashion line, from vision boards to finished pieces, while exploring industry concepts like color palettes, hand sewing, embroidery, and upcycling.

Found Object Sculpture with Kit Demirdelen 
Children will collect and repurpose found materials like buttons, bottle caps, and cardboard to build unique 3D creations, reusing and recycling materials in imaginative ways.

Paint, Print, and Sculpt with Zerlina Panush 
Students will explore a variety of mediums and methods in this mixed media art class, including drawing, painting, making prints, and building sculptures.

Sewing on the Machine for Beginners with Lana Lanza
Students will learn the basics of machine sewing while creating projects such as tote bags, pillows, bunting, and simple clothing. They will learn pattern reading, fabric cutting, embellishment techniques, and essential machine safety.

Sports

Basketball Clinic with Robert Jacobson Sports (RJS)
This class helps young athletes excel and nurtures their love of basketball. Through skills-based drills and games, our class teaches technique, builds confidence, and enhances knowledge of the game.

Gymnastics with Coach Mike Weyneth
Students build strength, coordination, flexibility, and gross motor skills through tumbling, floor routines, balance beam, uneven bars, tumble tramp, and vault. Classes are offered at multiple levels to match each child’s experience and ability.

Multi-sport with Train Like A Pro
Aspiring athletes will explore the fundamentals of various sports, including lacrosse, baseball, football, hockey, soccer, kickball, and basketball, fostering a well-rounded sports experience.

Karate with American Goju Karate
Students move through the belt system and gain skills of focus, control, balance, coordination, discipline and more, while improving fitness and building confidence.

Soccer Clinic with Train Like A Pro
Children will gain confidence on the field and improve their technical skills such as first touch, passing, dribbling, and shooting. They will work on speed, agility, strength, and endurance through drills and scrimmage.

Tennis with Evolution Tennis Academy
Children of all levels will develop a lifelong love of tennis in a positive, supportive, and fun environment that promotes skill development, fitness, and fun.

Total Tumble Class with Coach Mike Weyneth
Athletes will focus purely on tumbling elements on our spring airtrak floor, tumble track, and carpet bonded rolls.

NEW! Speed, Agility and Strength with Train Like A Pro
Athletes will take part in fun, structured drills, games, and activities, developing coordination, balance, quickness, and strength. This dynamic class helps build confidence and enhances overall performance in any sport.

NEW! Schoolyard Sports with Robert Jacobson Sports (RJS)
Schoolyard Sports helps children stay active, build confidence, and learn teamwork through classic schoolyard games like basketball, kickball, touch football, relay races, and steal-the-bacon.

Performing Arts

Creative Movement with Allie Sherich
Young dancers explore movement through music, stories, and imaginative play. This fun and gentle class builds coordination, confidence, and creativity.

JCC On Stage with Allie Sherich and Chris Williams
Aspiring thespians will experience the magic of theater on our stage at The Ark! Children will build confidence, connection, and creativity, and have the opportunity to showcase their talents in a live performance.

NEW! Musical Explorers: Broadway! with Rock’n’ Rascalz
Children explore the fundamentals of music through favorite Broadway songs and classic tunes. They learn rhythm and expression while singing, moving, and playing.

NEW! Latin American Drumming and Music with Folklore Urbano NYC
Explore Latin American rhythms like Cumbia through drumming, creative movement, and singing in both Spanish and English. Taught by Pablo Mayor and Anna Povich de Mayor.

NEW! Zumba Dance Party with JCC Zumba teacher Krishna Zamora
This fun, high-energy dance class  keeps children active through music, movement, and games. Children learn dance routines to global styles like hip-hop, salsa, and cumbia, building coordination, confidence, and cultural awareness.

STEAM

Challenge Island 
In this project-based STEAM class, students tackle exciting engineering challenges. With over 200 innovative experiences, they’ll build, explore, question, and create while transforming critical thinking into action.

Chess with National Scholastic Chess Foundation
This multi-level class allows students to learn at their own pace through structured lessons and supervised play, exploring key components of the game, tactics, and strategies to become thoughtful players.

Minecraft Club: Planet Earth with iCamp
Embark on a global adventure! Using Minecraft Education Edition, students will explore diverse biomes from jungles to deserts while discovering the wonders of our planet.

Cooking

Cooking Around the World with Kate Sonders Solomon
Explore new cultures through cooking! From scallion pancakes to zeppole, children will learn essential cooking skills and discover the fun of making food from scratch.