We are pleased to share with you the opening of new preschool in Pic Fair Village in May of 2010, by one of our parents, at MDG, Ms. Shama  Minwalla, M.A Education, AMI (Associated Montessori Internationale) Primary Montessori Certified.

The PicFair Village Montessori Preschool of the Arts

is proud to announce that we are now enrolling children between the ages of 2 and 4 ½. Our mission at PicFair Village Montessori is to provide a safe, nurturing, stimulating, and peaceful environment for the development and education of your child.

Our program is rich in the arts and our mission is to ignite the imagination of each child while setting the tone for learning, growing, exploring, discovering, and creating.

We offer an authentic Montessori approach to education as an aid to life. Montessori education is designed to help children with their task of inner construction. Our classroom provides a prepared environment where children are free to respond to their natural tendencies. The Montessori approach empowers children to progress at their own pace and rhythm, and according to their own individual capabilities. As the children are guided by their own inner directives they develop concentration and a sense of calmness and joy.

Please call to schedule a visit!

PicFair Village Montessori Preschool of the Arts

1609 Carmona Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90019

Phone: 310.860.6269/323.667.7921

Email: Shama@picfairvillagemontessori.com

Centrally located in Mid-City between Miracle Mile, West Hollywood,

Culver City and Beverly Hills.

Director: Shama Minwalla, M.A Education, Primary Montessori Certified

Shama Minwalla has been working with small children for over twenty years. She received her AMI Montessori Diploma from the Ohio Montessori Training Institute in 1997. She opened a school in Vermont in 1999 and another in Senegal, West Africa in 2006. Shama has taught many children with special needs and also teaches yoga and dance. She is very passionate about Montessori Education and is inspired to serve the growing needs of children as well as the world’s need for a peace education.

“This then is the first duty of the educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.”

Dr. Montessori