Every night my daughters (ages 4 and 5) ask us all kinds of fascinating concerns. A few of them have to do with things that I havent considered in a long time. Some of them arent simple to address in such a way that they can comprehend. And some of them are a little bit of both. That was case one night recently 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..

On a related note, Next Vista for Learning hosts a terrific video explanation of onomatopoeia. The video was produced by a high school trainee for among Next Vistas numerous trainee video creation contests.

After supper and my somewhat not successful explanation of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to look for a video that may assist my children much better understand what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I discovered this cute and brief video about onomatopoeia. Ill caution you, the song is kind of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..