PRIDE OF ILLINOIS

Your Little Lion is ready for exciting new adventures in The Jungle, our one-of-a-kind, dedicated preschool area.  Instructors will help independent Little Lions climb, leap, and roll through activities designed to build confidence, strength, balance, and flexibility while practicing important social skills like taking turns and interacting with peers.  Geared for children 3-5 years old. Children must be potty-trained. 30 min. class.

Kids can’t get enough gym time? Need a date-night with your special someone? Conquer both with Kids Night Out at Pride!  KNO Camps run from 6:00pm-9:00pm and include open gym time and themed activities.

Pre-registration is REQUIRED.  

Event Tuition is $30.00 for first child, $24.00 for each additional sibling enrolled.

Our Mom’s Day Out is the perfect blend of gym time and classroom time for active preschoolers!

This 3 hour camp invites preschoolers to join us in The Jungle for gym time where we’ll run, jump, climb, and slide through a safe, specially designed pre-school sized obstacle course.  After we’ve explored the gym, preschoolers head to our classroom for circle time, a themed story and centers, and a snack (provided).  We finish up with group games and free time in the gym, and everyone goes home happy, and ready for nap time!

Geared for children ages 2.5-5 who must be able to use the bathroom independently.

Pre-registration is REQUIRED.  

Camp Tuition is $30.00 for first child, $24.00 for each additional sibling enrolled.

NinjaZone combines elements from gymnastics, martial arts, parkour, obstacle training, and freestyle movement with the freedom for kids to progress and learn at their own pace.

The result is more confident, disciplined kids, who have a physical, mental and emotional foundation to take on any challenge. NinjaZone captures your child’s energy and ignites their confidence! Ninja Zone is on a mission to turn energy into ambition, one awesome kid at a time!

Our weekly class training sessions are fast paced, high energy rotations thru circuits designed to cover all the things a Ninja needs to know!   

Coaches lead Ninjas in progressive skills training stations and through obstacles courses that emphasize jumping, rolling, flipping, landing, stealth, strength, speed, coordination, and balance.  Classes also include a weekly character focus skill and mat chat designed to help our Ninjas live out the Ninja Zone mantras outside of the gym.  Ninjas work to gain skills and level up to the next class.  We are looking for awesome kids who are ready to take on the world!

Lil’ Ninjas, ages 4-6, will learn progressions and terminology for skills used in Ninja training including rolling, vaulting, basic large gross motor skills, jumping, falling, swinging, climbing, etc. with a goal to develop body coordination, awareness, and listening skills required for Ninja White Level.

Ninjas ages 6-18 begin at level WHITE and progress as their skills and strength grows through levels YELLOW, GREEN, and BLUE until they attain Ninja Master status!

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Every day at The Wonder Years includes active play and a gymnastics or movement  fundamentals class in our large and well-equipped facility.

We believe that establishing healthy habits, positive relationships with physical fitness, and an active lifestyle are an essential part of childhood.

Gymnastics is a foundational sport activity that teaches motor planning, coordination, balance, flexibility, and strength necessary for all other sports activities, benefiting children who want to be gymnasts, baseball players, swimmers, or astronauts!

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Our educational approach is driven by child-centered, experiential learning, and borrows tenets from the Montessori and Reggio Emilia philosophies.

We believe that children are strong, competent and capable citizens who are full of wonder and curiosity to learn.  We nurture each child’s desire for knowledge, understanding, and respect.

Our teachers guide children thru play-based activities in math, language, literacy, art, science, basic Spanish, sensory experiences, and social-emotional growth.

Our curriculum focuses on collaborative, hands-on, and engaging lessons that prepare children not just for Kindergarten, but for a lifetime of learning.

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Studies show that preschool gymnastics enhances cognitive development and academic readiness essentials such as laterality, visual differentiation, hand-eye coordination, directionality, and sensory discrimination.

Emerging new science about brain development of the young child has now proven what coaches, teachers, and parents have long intuited—that movement and play are essential for maximizing intellectual and emotional development. Running, skipping, jumping, rolling, spinning cross-lateral movement and inverting are more than child’s play – they connect neurons necessary for later academic success.

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Every day at The Wonder Years includes time for growing and stretching our bodies and our minds!  Gym time, center time, circle time, and snack time are all important parts of our day with friends.

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Ages 6-18

Fridays* 7-8:30pm

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Ages 8-18

Mondays* 7:30-9:00pm

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Ages 1-6

Every Thursday* 10-11:30am

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Ages 1-6

Every Thursday* 10-11:30am

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This weekly class is the perfect introduction to the gym for you and your young toddler! Instructors assist adult caregivers through parent-led activities that help develop fine and gross motor skills, flexibility, and strength. Classes are held in our one-of-a-kind, dedicated preschool area, The Jungle. Ages 12-23 months, adult caregiver participation required, 30 min.

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Gymnastics is a confidence-building sport that improves strength, flexibility, agility, and coordination.  It’s a great activity for developing skills for all other sports.

School-age progressive girls’ gymnastics classes include all four women’s Olympic events: balance beam, uneven bars, vault, and floor exercise in addition to tumble track and trampoline.  Classes meet once per week for 55-70 minutes, and progress from beginner to advanced.  Athletes are welcome to enroll in more than one class if they want to train more than once a week.

Our beginner classes, Jewels (5-6 year olds) and Rubies (6-12 year olds), are a perfect place to start.  If your athlete has had previous gymnastics training and is no longer a beginner, please text us at 618-204-1981 to schedule an evaluation to find the perfect class fit.

Our Intro to Allstar classes are for those athletes who want to try cheerleading skills like jumps, motions, stunts, and dance without the commitment of being on a cheer team.  These classes perform short exhibition routines a few times a year.

Can’t choose between cheer & gymnastics?  Our Gym & Cheer classes combine gymnastics and cheerleading into one 55 min class! Class is structured for alternating gymnastics apparatus and cheer skills weekly.

Please note that if your athlete is interested in cheerleading, tumbling classes are always a great option!

This weekly class is the perfect introduction to the gym for you and your energetic toddler! Instructors assist adult caregivers through parent-led activities that help develop fine and gross motor skills, flexibility, and strength. Classes are held in our one-of-a-kind, dedicated preschool area, The Jungle. Ages 2-3, adult caregiver participation required, 30 min.

Jungle Explorers is our program for older preschoolers ready for longer classes and bigger expeditions in The Jungle, our one-of-a-kind, dedicated preschool area. While exploring The Jungle, instructors will lead Explorers over, under, and through more complex activities to grow coordination, flexibility, strength, and balance. Occasional treks to “big kid” areas of the gym like the trampoline and tumble track are a part of the adventure. Ages 4-6, must be potty trained, 45 min.

This is a transitional class for newly school-aged Adventurers that introduces the areas of our older recreational programs, while keeping the imaginative play of our preschool program.  Adventurers are led by instructors through both The Jungle, our one-of-a-kind, dedicated preschool area, and our “big kid” gym areas, like the trampoline, tumble track, vault, bars, beam, and floor.  Geared for children 5-6 years old, 45 min.

Pride offers private lesson classes providing individualized, focused training with a Pride Coach for athletes aged 7 and up (younger athletes must have prior coach approval before booking lesson classes).  We provide two Private Lesson options:  individual lesson camps with no long-term commitment to provide schedule flexibility for your busy athlete and continuous lesson classes at the same time and day each week to provide consistent one-on-one training for your athlete with his/her favorite coach.

New to Pride?

Join our Pride Family today and get a great deal on your first month of classes* and a free T-shirt!

Jungle Classes – $39

School Age Classes – $69

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*regular tuition rates apply after your first 4 classes.

Tumbling classes are offered for beginners to Elite level tumblers ages 5-18. These 55-70 minute classes offer athletes an opportunity to learn tumbling skills on the spring floor, using the rod floor, trampoline, and tumble trac as training aids. Tumbling classes place a strong emphasis on technique, while coaches use drills and stations to allow athletes to work on advancing their skills safely. Athletes are welcome to enroll in more than one class if they wish to train more than once a week.