After dinner and my rather not successful explanation of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to try to discover a video that might help my children better understand what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I discovered this brief and adorable music video about onomatopoeia. Ill alert you, the tune is type of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..

On an associated note, Next Vista for Learning hosts a great video explanation of onomatopoeia. The video was produced by a high school student for among Next Vistas many student video creation contests.

Every night my daughters (ages 4 and 5) ask all of us sort of interesting questions. A few of them have to do with things that I have not considered in a long time. Some of them arent easy to address in a manner that they can comprehend. And a few of them are a bit of both. That was case one night last week when my five-year-old asked, “whats onomatopoeia mean?” I did my best to describe that it is a word like “moo” that is produced from the noise that it makes..