About Us
Ms. Amy's Enrichment was established in 2006 on the Mariposa Campus as an after-school arts enrichment program, the Cool Club. By parent request, Cool Camp started several years after as a two-week summer program but due to popular demand, in 2021, we extended to a 7-week summer/school break camp and school year enrichment classes.
Cool Camp is hosted at Mae Boyer Park in affiliation with Oak Park Community Center and Rancho Simi Recreation and Parks District. We are a full day Summer camp. Hours are from 8-3 with optional aftercare from 3-5. Everyday at camp your child will participate in dance, theatre, art, yoga, sign language class, social skills, and physical fitness. All these activities culminate in a weekly Performance. Camp will be offered during summer and on most school breaks.
Cool Kids Classes run throughout the year on the Mae Boyer Park in Oak Park and include a myriad of different subjects ranging from Culinary Arts, Dance Choreography, Yoga for Kids, Acting for film and/or stage, Sign language through Song, Poetry Writing and so much more. Check the Oak Park Community Center Catalog for a full list of offerings. Classes change each semester so make sure to check back. Classes will be open to both Homeschool programs in the morning and after school enrichments in the afternoon.
Please feel free to email me at amy@tonicentertainment.com or fill out the form below with any questions.
Our History
The Cool Club started out in 2006 as a district run, after-school program for the Mariposa School of Global Education or the Community Learning Center as the school was known then. Ms. Amy came in 2 months after the school started and created what became known as the Cool Club (named by the kids). After district-wide budget cuts the following year, the program was cut but the parents wouldn't let us go away. We operated as a boutique arts based afterschool program serving the Mariposa and Sumac Schools from 2006-2026.
With an overwhelming request from the community, we started the Cool Camp in 2009 which still operates today. Ms. Amy and her dedicated staff have led thousands of children in arts based classes with the motto: "Coolness through lessons in Kindness and Confidence".
Ms. Amy has owned and operated The Cool Club since its beginnings. It's a funny thing to own "The Cool Club" but Ms. Amy will tell you, that first year, after the submission of program names by students and then a blind ballot, the program was forever deemed, The Cool Club. Even in those early days, the kids were given ownership of their program.
Meet Ms. Amy
Ms. Amy after one of our Annual cake fights
"When I was asked to create and run an after-school program, I said no way. I had taught 5th and 6th-grade special ed on an ER credential in Nashville the year before and it was the most difficult year of my life. I didn't think I was ever going to teach children again. But thank goodness that parent persisted. Mariposa was just starting and since that parent knew I was in alignment with the new school's philosophies, she convinced me that I'd be a great fit. And boy, did I ever fit. It's been over 15 years now and I have never looked back. The Cool Club and Cool Camp have been one of the best things to come into my life. I can't begin to tell you how much I have learned from these littles. They teach me more and more about living a good life every day.
Over the years the program has morphed into what it is today. Mainly because I listened to the kids and I got in touch with the little kid in me. I decided to create a program that would do everything that I would have wanted to do when I was a little. A little bit of learning, a little bit of all the different arts, a lot of dancing, some days of getting dirty, and a whole bunch of silly. In fact, our last Agreement or "rules" that the kids have to agree to is, "Have a fall down laughing good time". And there is not a kid in our program who doesn't shout that out when we get to that agreement...Mind you, we really try to not do the falling down part."