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Boost

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  

    • 1 class ($200/year or $125/semester)
    • 2 classes ($400/year or $250/semester)
Elective Classes 

    • 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.
Five students in historic time period costumes standing with a female teacher

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 

Boost K-5 art flyer<br />

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 Spanish flyer

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

music theory flyer

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