After dinner and my rather not successful explanation of onomatopoeia, I turned to YouTube to look for a video that may assist my children much better comprehend what onomatopoeia is. Thats where I discovered this brief and adorable video about onomatopoeia. Ill alert you, the tune is kind of catchy (if youre a five-year-old)..

Every night my children (ages 4 and 5) ask all of us kinds of fascinating concerns. A few of them are about things that I havent thought of in a very long time. A few of them arent simple to address in a way that they can understand. And some of them are a little bit of both. That was case one night last week when my five-year-old asked, “whats onomatopoeia suggest?” I did my finest to discuss that it is a word like “moo” that is produced from the noise that it makes..

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 one of Next Vistas lots of student video creation contests.