Welcome to the Chess Party! The Knight School Chess Team is your school's official chess team and chess party. The Knight School's approach has had amazing success -- spreading a love for Chess to over 14,000 students nationwide -- because our unique and unprecedented educational philosophy, "the chess party," is the perfect way to transform a complete beginner into a devastating chess machine. In this kid-centered classroom environment, we teach our kids every cool trick, strategy, and tactic in chessdom and our kids soon learn to love and master chess, their classroom, sports, and their home lives as well! Upon enrollment, new students receive a TKS T-Shirt, chess set, chess bag, and all the colorful Tactics Bands they can earn! — Chess Nuts Kindergartners 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, 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 is the fastest way for kindergartners 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! Class meets weekly for 1 hour. It is our deeply held policy that no student will ever be turned away due to finances. To this end, we are happy to offer scholarships and scalable tuition to any and all families that may need them. We manage this through our registration and class management platform, Jumbula.com.

In this class, your child will be taught how to play the ukulele, while singing songs and playing games to teach music and listening. They will all listen to each other as an ensemble and write original songs. Over the years, students in music classes, be they beginners or advanced, are engaged in the act of self-expression and songwriting, and this is often as fun (for some, if not more fun) than playing their instruments! For the younger students, they can draw, write, and/or have a teacher scribe for them. Each student finds joy in expressing their unique, wise, creative, fanciful, and hilarious ideas by themselves or with a friend. The ability to read helps but is not required. Recommended age 5 and up. An ukulele and snack are required.