Learning Through Wonder: A Community Garden Visit with Our Nursery Children

At Little Olive Tree, we believe that young children learn best through wonder, discovery, and meaningful experiences.

Today, our Nursery children from Little Olive Tree P51 went on a garden visit that turned simple fruits into powerful learning moments. As they explored the garden, the children used their senses to see, touch, and smell calamansi and lime, learning to tell the difference between the two. They also observed ripe and unripe bananas, noticing how colour reveals important clues about the world around them.

To an adult, these may seem like small observations. But to a child, these are moments where truth is discovered, that the world is ordered, meaningful, and full of things waiting to be understood.

This is what learning looks like in the early years: building understanding through real experiences. As the children touched, smelled, compared, and talked about what they saw, they were developing language, thinking skills, and confidence all through joyful exploration.

We also saw beauty in the way the children engaged with creation. In their curiosity, their careful looking, and their delight in discovering something new. And we saw goodness in how they shared, took turns, and learned together in a spirit of joy.

At Little Olive Tree, we design experiences like this because we believe education is about forming the heart and mind today, helping children grow to love learning, to notice the world, and to engage with it thoughtfully and gratefully.

This garden visit was simple. But in its simplicity, it was rich with meaning. A small step in helping our children grow rooted in Truth, growing in Beauty, and bearing Goodness.