Haygood UMC Chess Nuts Kindergarten Chess

  • Chess
Haygood UMC: 1015 E Rock Springs Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30306, USA
Aug 28 2025
Dec 04 2025

Days

  • Wed 

After school

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

Monthly Installment

Description

Little Geniuses is a chess-song singing, laughing, chess-tourney, dancing, clock-slapping, zany video, puppet show introduction to chess and being the smart kid in the room. Kids report Little Geniuses to be the favorite part of their week, because kids love our infectiously-fun thinking activities, which are developmentally-targeted to be compelling, exhilarating, and gratifying.

Guaranteed to delight, Little Geniuses is the perfect way to instill enthusiasm for chess and help your child gain academic confidence while learning the basics of the game and having a blast.

Upon enrollment, new students receive a TKS T-Shirt, chess set, chess bag, and all the colorful SillyBands they can earn!

Class meets weekly for 45 minutes.

Payment period

Monthly

Description

Chess Nuts is a chess-song singing, laughing, chess-tourney, dancing, clock-slapping, zany video, puppet show introduction to chess and being the smart kid in the room. Kids report Chess Nuts to be the favorite part of their week, because kids love our infectiously-fun thinking activities are developmentally-targeted to be compelling, exhilarating, and gratifying.

Guaranteed to delight, Chess Nuts is the perfect way to instill enthusiasm for chess and help your kindergartener gain academic confidence while learning the basics of the game and having a blast.

Upon enrollment, new students receive a TKS T-Shirt, chess set, chess bag, and all the colorful TactixBands they can earn!

Did you know that Kindergartners get four special privileges in their The Knight School Chess classes? Yep. In fact, our kindergarten division is so important to us that it is a completely different The Knight School division called “Chess Nuts.” While kindergartners and elementary kids enjoy the gags and movies and prizes and excitement of chess class together every week in order to maximize the fun for kindergartners and also to accelerate the chess learning for kindergartners, Chess Nuts kindergarten chess is wholly different from our purple-shirted The Knight School elementary program. Here are the four big differences:

1) Our Chess Nuts kindergartners wear an orange shirt; The Knight School Elementary kids wear purple. That way there is no mistaking who needs the extra attention!

2) Our Chess Nuts kindergartners are the “students” during our recurring activity, “Yes, Junior?” in which veteran kids teach newbies specific tactics.

3) Our Chess Nuts kindergartners always enjoy a beginner’s lesson each week on the floor with their School Coach until they are ready to enter the general population.

4) Our Chess Nuts kindergartners are generally mentored by the older kids, which we have learned after thirty years of experimenting is the fastest way for kindergarteners to learn chess and be assimilated with established elementary chess players. Our kindergartners have reported for decades that mixing with the big kids is far more fun than being separated from them in a different room. Our mixing/mentor program is how we get fledglings on their feet, and we invite your kindergartner to join us this fall!

Restrictions

Participants must currently be 3 years to 6 years old.

Registration period

Registration starts on 06/06/2024 and ends on 11/25/2025.

Participants may register at any time during this period.

In-person location

Haygood UMC: 1015 E Rock Springs Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30306, USA
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