
Boost News and Updates
2025 – 2026 Registration begins on May 5th!
Boost Language Arts, Math, Art, Music, and Spanish classes ignite your student’s curiosity and creativity with standards-based engaging activities designed to make learning enjoyable and memorable. Students will explore new concepts alongside peers, building friendships while enhancing their skills!
Curious what Boost has to offer?
Join us at one of our informational sessions and class preview day!
4/7/25 – 2 pm (parents)
4/8/25 – 7 pm (parents)
4/9/25 – 9 am (HSTs)
4/29/25 – Class Preview Day (Current students get to celebrate the year with teachers and classmates. Prospective students are welcome to attend).
Boost Pricing
Kinder Circle Time, ELA & Math Classes
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- 1 class ($200/year or $125/semester)
- 2 classes ($400/year or $250/semester)
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- Art ($200/year or $125/semester)
- Music ($100/year or $75/semester)
- Spanish Explorations ($100/year or $75/semester)
About Boost
Boost is Cottonwood’s virtual academic program designed to enrich your K- 5th grade students’ homeschool experience. Weekly classes taught by Cottonwood teachers, enhance, not replace, your chosen homestudy curriculum.
We offer:
- Live, weekly virtual classes
- Math & Language Arts (1st – 5th grade)
- Kinder “Circle Time” (45 minutes)
- Interactive, in-class activities and engaging, at-home extension activities
- Low student-to-teacher ratio.

In addition to weekly virtual classes, Boost students join their classmates at optional in-person events. (Photo: Teacher Ashley Zandonella poses with Boost students at the Cottonwood Wax Museum.)
Electives
Pop Art Picnic Palooza
Art instructor Dann Hagstrom will explore sculpting techniques with felt, paper bags, and clay. Students will sculpt pop art pillows, apple pies, and poppers.
K-2nd (T/Th 12:30-1:30pm)
Zoom Link for 1st-2nd Grade Art
3rd-5th (T/Th 1:45-2:45pm)
Zoom Link for 3rd-5th Grade Art
Exploring Español
Spanish instructor Ana Santana will take students on an immersive language experience featuring games, songs, and easy home recipes as they learn greetings, numbers, colors, and more in Spanish. No experience required.
K-2nd (Th 1:45-2:15pm)
3rd-5th (Th 12:30-1:30pm)
Zoom Link for 3rd-5th Grade Spanish
The Music Around You
In Music, instructor Jamin Coller will introduce students to facets of sound, including art, duration, pitch, timbre, and harmony.
K-2nd (T 1:45-2:15pm)
Zoom Link for 1st-2nd Music
3rd-5th (T 12:30-1:30pm)
Zoom Link for 3rd-5th Music
Boost Teachers

Holly Lutkemuller
Kindergarten Circle Time

Cheryl Kennedy
1st Grade Math & ELA

Cynthia Turner
2nd Grade English Language Arts

Carey Shaw
2nd Grade Math

Amber Snyder
3rd Grade English Language Arts

Leslie Bellini
3rd Grade Math

Nanette Todd
4th Grade ELA and Math

Abbie Mouillesseaux
5th Grade English Language Arts

Elizabeth Barber
5th Grade Math
Boost Electives Teachers



Dann Hagstrom
Visual Arts

Valarie Garcia
Spanish